{"id":624,"date":"2019-11-18T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/?p=624"},"modified":"2019-11-19T01:25:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T01:25:04","slug":"member-profile-andy-belys-unique-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/member-profiles\/member-profile-andy-belys-unique-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Profile: Andy Bely&#8217;s Unique Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your name and your usual job title(s)?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andy Bely. Editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get started working in factual TV?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cut my teeth editing a wacky-theory Jesus archeology documentary series, and had been sent several times to a small town in Israel so they wouldn\u2019t feel guilty about working me 6-day weeks. I needed an escape, so I took a job at Toronto\u2019s \u201cDeath Star\u201d to work on the 2nd season of a series called \u201cCash &amp; Cari\u201d about an estate liquidator. The network hated how the first season turned out and so all of that crew was fired.&nbsp; Amazingly, we all survived the 2nd season. I\u2019m sure the network hated that season too as there was no third.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What do you consider to be your career highlight(s)?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having the opportunity to pass along what I\u2019ve learned at events like Factual West!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the strangest thing you\u2019ve had to do working in factual TV?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t think of anything as a factual editor. But I had a previous career working in feature films \/ TV movies as a props \/ set dresser, and had to learn how to crochet so I could teach Hallie Eisenberg (the Pepsi girl) how to crochet with her eyes closed for the part of Hellen Keller.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s something interesting\/unusual about you that most people don\u2019t know?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love antiques and have more than I can display at home, so most are sitting in boxes. If you want me to ignore you, take me to an antique shop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your ultimate career aspiration?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a few: cut a documentary that makes a splash at Hot Docs, teach at a film school, and create a series I\u2019d actually watch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s your name and your usual job title(s)? Andy Bely. Editor. How did you get started working in factual TV? I cut my teeth editing a wacky-theory Jesus archeology documentary series, and had been sent several times to a small town in Israel so they wouldn\u2019t feel guilty about working me 6-day weeks. I needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fieldandpost.ca\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}