{"id":165534,"date":"2025-03-31T07:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animation\/all-work-is-admirable-and-honorable-guest-column\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T07:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:41:35","slug":"all-work-is-admirable-and-honorable-guest-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=165534","title":{"rendered":"All Work Is Admirable And Honorable (Guest Column)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Mark Keefer is a five-time Emmy-winning and three-time Golden Reel-winning film editor whose credits include \u201cThe Garfield Movie,\u201d Netflix\u2019s \u201cOver the Moon,\u201d Disney\u2019s \u201cPlanes,\u201d and the \u201cVeggieTales\u201d franchise. Recently, Mark penned a social media post about a temporary job that he has taken to tide him and his family over during this exceptionally slow period in the animation industry. The post has gone viral, resonating with many film and tv industry workers who are experiencing similar situations. In the interest of furthering the conversation around this important topic, Cartoon Brew is sharing Mark\u2019s story here with his permission. Over to Mark\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>I\u2019m a film editor.<\/p>\n<p>At least that\u2019s what it says on my resume. My <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1440663\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB page<\/a> has lots of evidence to prove it as well, along with some other sound credits and minor accolades. <\/p>\n<p><!--googleoff: index--><\/p>\n<aside class=\"cb-ad cb-post inset\"\/><!--googleon: index--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_246594\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246594\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/markkeefer_photo.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Keefer\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/markkeefer_photo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/markkeefer_photo-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/markkeefer_photo-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/markkeefer_photo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.cartoonbrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/markkeefer_photo-180x180.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Keefer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The attached selfie is of me right before walking into work at Trader Joe\u2019s for my first shift on Dec 9th, 2024. So, why post this photo? I\u2019ve worked in the film\/TV industry for about 28 years now, and I\u2019ve been out of work a few times. You get through it and something usually opens up at the right time. <\/p>\n<p>The industry is either feast or famine, but with COVID, then the agonizing SAG and WGA strikes in 2023, and then in 2024, my union and 13 others nearly went on strike \u2014 thank God those strikes were averted last July.<\/p>\n<p>This perfect storm of setbacks for the industry has made most studios gun-shy to green light new projects, so as people finish their current projects, they\u2019re not finding anything to roll onto. The rate of new projects right now is a frustrating trickle.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>The Garfield Movie<\/em> ended for me in March of 2024, I found a few projects to help out on, but found no new films looking for a lead editor. (I\u2019m still looking)<\/p>\n<p>Then, in November, with the holidays coming up, and still with no new film jobs in sight\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I made a decision. <\/p>\n<p>I did something I haven\u2019t done in over 30 years. I applied for a non-creative job. Don\u2019t get me wrong, there are ways to express creativity at TJ\u2019s \u2013 just not what I was accustomed to. Thankfully I was hired, and when I rolled off the show I\u2019d been working on for 8 months after <em>Garfield,<\/em> I put on the name badge and walked into the store.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I felt a little embarrassed, wondering if any of my editor colleagues, recruiters, potential hiring producers, or anyone, would find out and see this as a defeat. Not gonna lie \u2014 it was extremely humbling.<\/p>\n<p>Then, and pretty quickly, I realized I was surrounded by extremely awesome and creative people. Musicians, actors, writers, artists, you name it. And if you\u2019ve ever been in a Trader Joe\u2019s you see how hard they work \u2014 and they actually work much harder than you think they do. <\/p>\n<p>When I finish a shift there, I\u2019m spent \u2014 it\u2019s like an 8-hour workout. But it\u2019s a good tired. I know I laid it all out there to get the job done, and to continue to feed my family until I can move onto the next film. I\u2019m so thankful for this TJ\u2019s crew.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for sharing this now, is I want to tell all of the other out-of-work film people, it\u2019s okay to go find something to do to make your month work. It\u2019s admirable. It\u2019s honorable. It\u2019s respectable. Do not ever be ashamed of taking care of you and yours, even if it\u2019s temporarily taking you out of your comfort zone.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Keefer is a five-time Emmy-winning and three-time Golden Reel-winning film editor whose credits include \u201cThe Garfield Movie,\u201d Netflix\u2019s \u201cOver the Moon,\u201d Disney\u2019s \u201cPlanes,\u201d and the \u201cVeggieTales\u201d franchise. Recently, Mark penned a social media post about a temporary job that he has taken to tide him and his family over during this exceptionally slow period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12035],"tags":[67060,25079,30077,4251,51795,67057,25530,67058,67059,418],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-165534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","tag-admirable","tag-column","tag-editing","tag-guest","tag-honorable","tag-over-the-moon","tag-planes","tag-the-garfield-movie","tag-veggietales","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>All Work Is Admirable And Honorable (Guest Column) - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=165534\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"All Work Is Admirable And Honorable (Guest Column) - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mark Keefer is a five-time Emmy-winning and three-time Golden Reel-winning film editor whose credits include \u201cThe Garfield Movie,\u201d Netflix\u2019s \u201cOver the Moon,\u201d Disney\u2019s \u201cPlanes,\u201d and the \u201cVeggieTales\u201d franchise. 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