Sundance creates editing fellowship in honor of Menke

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This might be the perfect tribute to the great film editor Sally Menke, who died unexpectedly last September: A fellowship to support an up-and-coming editor.

The Sundance Institute, working with Menke's family, has established the Sally Menke Memorial Fellowship - and today announced that Julia Bloch would be its first recipient.

Bloch is getting ready to edit her first feature film, director Tom Gilroy's "The Cold Lands." Previously she worked as associate editor on Terrence Malick's Cannes Film Festival entry "The Tree of Life" and assistant editor on "Notorious B.I.G." She was also on the in-house editing staff of Denmark's Zentropa Productions, working with such directors as Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg.

Menke - a Sundance Institute lab adviser - edited all of Quentin Tarantino's films, earning Oscar nominations for two of them, "Pulp Fiction" and "Inglourious Basterds." She also edited Oliver Stone's "Heaven & Earth" and Billy Bob Thornton's "All the Pretty Horses."