Before he worked on hit movies like “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “This Is The End,” Brent Joseph fell in love with film when he was a boy growing up in Terrytown.
But it was at Brother Martin High School in 1990 that the future film editor got his first chance to see movie-making up close, when director Oliver Stone and his crew rolled into New Orleans to shoot “JFK.”
“I was in love with filmmaking at a young age already, and so I actually skipped school a few times when I heard they were filming in the French Quarter,” Joseph recalled. “I kind of sneaked onto the set and got to see what a great production looked like. And then when the movie came out in 1991, it won the Oscar for best film editing. It was such a tour de force. I was hooked.”…