For more than two decades, David Walsh Heinz has been a fixture in cutting rooms on both studio and independent pictures alike. He has served as the Visual Effects Editor on some of the most ground-breaking VFX movies of all-time including two films in the Planet of the Apes franchise as well as Disney's academy-award winning The Jungle Book. Most recently Heinz edited The Call of the Wild for Fox/Disney, A Christmas Story Christmas for Warner Bros., and prior to that a string of indie hits culminating with the award-winning American Folk in 2018 which he wrote, directed and edited.  Born and raised in Illinois, he currently resides in California with his wife and two children.