Career
Tina Hirsch began to edit films in the late 1960s, including Death Race 2000 (1975) and the sequels More American Graffiti (1979) and Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). In the 1980s she edited the lieutenant"s a Good Life sequence in the Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) and also edited director Joe Dante"s Gremlins (1984). Hirsch directed Munchies (1987), one of the many low budget movies that were imitative of Gremlins.
In 2005, she was nominated for a second Emmy for editing the television miniseries Back When We Were Grownups (2004).
She has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors (American Council on Exercise), and she was the first female President of the honorary society. Hirsch currently serves on the board of American Council on Exercise, and has done so for more than two decades.
Since 2003, Hirsch spends her time working as Adjunct Professor of editing at University of Southern California film school.