Internal research grant There is gap in what is currently known about 1) the experiences of women workers over age 50 in the screen production sector and 2) the chronic stops, starts, and sideways movements which characterise women’s careers in the sector. This study provides a preliminary overview of how gender intersects with age to impact sector workers, largely via a focus on careers of Australian women editors over the age of fifty. A second project brief is to reveal information about career movements and trajectories that are not encompassed within conventional, auteurist-oriented tropes, such as “the long career” (Bell 2021).