We're happy to see that three alumni projects were included in the Margaret Mead Film Festival lineup this year!
Farewell Ferris Wheel | Edited by alum Eugene Yi
Ladies First: Saudi Arabia’s Female Candidates | Edited by alum Adam Bolt
Salero | Edited by teacher Andrew Blackwell
We are very excited to announce that Geoffrey Richman will be teaching the narrative section of our October/November 2016 Six-Week class!
Geoffrey Richman, A.C.E. is the editor of Murderball, Sicko, and The Cove - the 2006, 2008, and 2010 Academy Award nominees for Best Feature Documentary, and Time Freak - the 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Live-Action Short Film. The Cove went on to win the Academy Award, after becoming the first documentary ever to win all four guild awards (Producing, Directing, Writing, and Editing). At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Geoff was awarded the first-ever Special Jury Prize for Editing for his work on Murderball. The following year he returned to Sundance with a film he edited, God Grew Tired of Us, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Other documentary credits include 21 Up America, The Order of Myths, The Great Invisible, The Supreme Price, and Racing Extinction, Louie Psihoyos's follow-up to The Cove; Other narrative credits include Peter and Vandy, The Virginity Hit, Wainy Days, Tony Kaye’s Detachment, Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me, and Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups. His most recent projects include the documentary Eating Animals, based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer, and the Mike Birbiglia film Don’t Think Twice.
We're happy to see that three alumni projects have been included in the NY Film Festival lineup this year!
Bright Lights | Edited by TEC Alum Shiela Shirazi
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea | Edited by TEC Alum Lance Edmands
Gimme Danger | Edited by TEC Alum Adam Kurnitz
My Art, edited by TEC alum and teacher Betsy Kagen, premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival. My Art was written and directed by Laurie Simmons, who also stars in the film with Lena Dunham, Robert Clohessy, John Rothman, Josh Safdie, Parker Posey, Blair Brown, and Barbara Sukowa. E. Nina Rothe of the Huffington Post describes the film as "beautiful, funny, charming and wonderful." Read the full article here.
Love & Friendship, edited by TEC alum Sophie Corra, is listed as one of the 7 indie films you need to know about in The New York Times.
Read the full article here.
Don't Breathe, edited by TEC alum Louise Ford, topped the Box Office this past weekend! The New York Times highlights how the film's appeal has spread "beyond the core horror crowd."
You can read the full NYT article here.
Netflix recently acquired Keepers of the Game, a documentary about an all-Native girls Lacrosse team and their goal to be the first Native women’s team to bring home a Section Championship. TEC alums Chris Iverson and David Lieberman served as editors and Drew Kilgore as on-line editor on the film. It begins streaming on Netflix September 1st.
Little Men, edited by TEC teacher and alum Mollie Goldstein and TEC teacher Affonso Gonçalves, is now playing in New York. TEC alums Brian Young and Katrina Pastore served as assistant editors on the film, which is on the New York Times Critics' Pick List. A.O. Scott writes:
When parents are around, “Little Men” feels like a modest, precise drama of urban life, but when it follows Tony and Jake, absorbing the loose rhythms of their companionship, the film becomes something richer and harder to classify. It’s a boys adventure story edged with unspoken risks, and the young actors take the kind of chances that their more careful and disciplined elders have been trained to avoid.
You can read the full NYTimes review here. Little Men is playing at the IFC Center and Lincoln Center.
January 2015 class project, Five Nights in Maine, will be released in select cities nationwide on August 5th! Steven Rea, from The Philadelphia Inquirer, said of the film, "Maris Curran's finely crafted, hushed feature debut, is close-up and aching, leavened with a gentle wit and anchored by Oyelowo's inside-out performance."
TEC alum Rob Dulin edited the film and alum Marina Katz was the assistant editor.
We are very excited to announce that Meg Reticker will be teaching the narrative section of our July/August 2016 Six-Week class!
Meg is an accomplished editor in both film and television. Her television credits include the award-winning shows "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", "True Detective", "30 Rock", "Bored To Death", "Big Love", and "The Wire". Meg won the 2009 Eddie award and received multiple Emmy nominations for the NBC show "30 Rock". She recently completed editing Jonathan Ames new show "Blunt Talk" starring Patrick Stewart on STARZ. Meg’s feature film credits include Lucky Them directed by Megan Griffiths, Come Early Morning directed by Joey Lauren Adams, Winter Passing by Adam Rapp, the documentary A Decade Under the Influence directed by Richard LaGravenese and Ted Demme, Wet Hot American Summer directed by David Wain, and Heavy directed by James Mangold. She also worked with Michael Moore on his documentary The Big One and his Bravo television series, "The Awful Truth".