Ted Hughes – Founder, The Edit Corporation
TED HUGHES has worked in broadcast television production for more than 20 years starting back in the early eighties at PBS affiliate WIPB in Muncie, Indiana, where he worked on the long-running nationally syndicated half-hour PBS program The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. He also coproduced many industrial projects including promotional content for Garfield comic strip creator Jim Davis.
Hughes then spent ten years as a video editor at The Disney Channel origination center in Burbank, Calif., where he worked on projects for directors such as George Stevens Jr., Mark Rydell and Steven Spielberg.
Additionally, he has worked as an editor for E! Entertainment Television, and the ABC Network News west coast bureau.
In 1999, Hughes founded The Edit Corporation in Los Angeles, which provides audio and video production and post-production services.
In 2004, Hughes edited his third surfing film, the acclaimed surfing adventure, Second Thoughts. Second Thoughts won Surfer Magazine’s 2004 Surfer Poll Award for Surfing Video of the Year. The December 2005 issue of Men’s Journal calls Second Thoughts one of best surf adventure DVDs of the past 40 years.
Hughes recently collaborated with filmmaker Fraser C. Heston on the documentary The Search for Michael Rockefeller.
In summer 2012 he began another collaboration, Cold Thoughts, with surfing filmmaker Timmy Turner