Brian Berdan

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Brian Berdan is a film editor. He was born in Michigan and earned his glider pilot's licence on December 12, 1992. Graduating from UC Berkeley in 1984, Berdan started his career with a job sweeping floors at Studio C, in San Francisco, then moved on to Lucasfilm in the post production division. From there, he began his freelance editing career as an apprentice editor on David Lynch's Blue Velvet. He also trained on Peter Bogdanovich's Noises Off and Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth. It was Stone who gave Berdan his first credit as Editor on the manic and controversial Natural Born Killers. He continued working with Stone on Nixon and U Turn. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.