Jay Wade Edwards (born September 12, 1968) is an American

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and

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. Jay Edwards started as professional television and film editor in 1991 after receiving a Bachelor's degree from

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. He was a staff editor at Turner Studios before he joined

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Adult Swim Adult Swim (stylized as

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and worked as editor and producer on several series. He edited ''

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'', with Ned Hastings using recycled clips from the original series and reorganized them on the Avid

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, even animated lips, for a "talk show" style program. He was the senior editor and producer of the animated series, The ''

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'' and for the feature ''

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''. He also directed the live-action '' Assisted Living Dracula'' clip for Season 1's Bus of the Undead and was an occasional voice actor, using his own name. He also edits '' Squidbillies'' and '' Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell'' for Adult Swim. Animation editor Brad Lee Zimmerman said about mentors, "Jay Edwards, Ned Hastings, Dave Willis, and

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are production cornerstones at Adult Swim and have been since it began." Edwards’s television credits include editing work on Disney's ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He has also worked on documentaries for

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and TBS, and numerous promotional campaigns. Edwards’ filmmaking career began when he wrote, directed, and edited three short science fiction films—''Mountain of Terror Day of Dread'' (1998), ''Project: Tiki Puka Puka'' (1999), and ''Esta Noche We Ride!'' (2001)—known collectively as The Monster Trilogy. The Monster Trilogy has been shown at film festivals in

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. Edwards has overseen promotion for the film, which has received positive reviews. Edwards co-produced and edited ''Y’all Come! The Hell Hole Swamp Festival'', a 2002 documentary profiling Jamestown, South Carolina, home of the annual Hell Hole Swamp Festival. The film has screened in ten film festivals, including The Rural Route Film Festival in

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, The Maryland Film Festival, and Detroit Docs, receiving two Best-of awards. The beach-party rock-'n'-roll

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''Stomp! Shout! Scream!'', Edwards’s first feature film as writer/director, premiered at the

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in October 2005 to more good reviews. The film has gone on to screen at more than twenty film festivals. Awards include Best Feature Film at the Toofy Film Festival and The Magnolia Independent Film Festival, and nominations for Best Cinematography and Best Set Design at the B-Movie Film Festival. The movie has been distributed under the title ''Monster Beach Party''. He was selected as a juror for the 2011

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. His anthology web series, ''Kino-Edwards Picture Show'', won Best Web Content at the 2016 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival.

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