Marcos Castiel

I have been working as a professional editor for the last 17 years, I live in Lisbon with my wife and two kids.

I love editing, usually one says that about his or her chosen profession, mostly to feel good about one's work, but in my case it is true. When I was a teenager my ambition was to be a film director, but shortly after starting in this business I realized I could either be a average director or a good editor, I chose the later.

I started at Publicis, as an "Assistant TV Producer", the title looked really good on my business card, but what I really did back them was to cut down longer versions of international commercials into 30" spots to be aired in Portugal. A couple of years later, Carlos Reis, a film producer hired me. The idea was to be the resident editor at his production company, and slowly move towards directing, I remained an editor until today and a happy one.

Since then I changed jobs quite a few times, working as resident editor in several production houses and post production companies

In 2011 I left my job at Garage Films to start working as a freelancer.

Best call in my life!

More free time for myself and the family, more diversified jobs, I got to know and work with a bunch of new and established directors, great people, made new friends, edited interesting works, all around I am very happy with this freelancer thing I have going on.

Check out my reel and if you need an obsessive editor, give me a call.
Cheers

Marcos