Marco Rosas: Green tea and a psychological thriller

Ever wonder what actually goes into editing a film? Like the real version, not the glamorous one? This week I sat down with Marco Rosas, a Mexican-American editor based in Los Angeles who has spent over a decade cutting everything from high-end commercials to HBO's Winning Time to Sender, a psychological thriller produced by Jamie Lee Curtis that premiered at SXSW 2026 and had critics calling out his editing by name. By name. In print.

We talk about how he went from a post house in Chicago to freelancing in LA to breaking into the union to cutting his first feature film. We talk about the editing style behind Sender, what it means to edit a performance, and why good editing is the thing you feel but can't always explain. We also get into the Chicago vs LA debate, green tea as a life philosophy, aliens, and the time he almost fainted in the edit bay and had to edit it anyway.

Marco is currently editing Strange but Perfect, a comedy drama coming soon. And yes, we asked about Pequod's.

Follow Marco on Instagram: @mrosas88

Hosted by Ilse Zacharias Rivera. Say hi / follow along here: @ilsezacharias

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