Announcing our Six-Week Class Teachers for March

We are very excited to announce that Kate Sanford will be teaching the narrative section and Adam Bolt will be teaching the documentary section of our March/April 2016 Six-Week Art of Editing class!

Kate Sanford is an award-winning feature film and television editor with over 20 years of experience. She’s won two American Cinema Editors awards for her work on "The Wire" and "Treme". She also edited HBO’s Golden Globe-winning series "Boardwalk Empire". Her feature film credits include Outside Providence, O, and Brooklyn Rules. Kate just finished editing the first season of Martin Scorsese’s critically acclaimed series "Vinyl".

Adam Bolt edited and co-wrote the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, for which he received the Writer's Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay and was nominated for an American Cinema Editors award for Best Edited Documentary in 2011. He won an Emmy in 2014 for his work on the Showtime documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously", where he served as editor, writer, and senior producer. His other credits include director Alex Gibney’s Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream, which premiered on PBS's Independent Lens and went on to win a Peabody Award in 2013; Page One: Inside the New York Times, which was nominated for two Emmys (including Best Editing) in 2012; and the HBO documentary The Recruiter, which won a Columbia duPont award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2010.

Click here to register. You can find out more about our six-week class here. 

TEC Alum Film Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

Tickling Giants, edited by TEC alum Tyler Walk, will have its world premiere in the World Documentary Competition program at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival:

Tickling Giants, directed and written by Sara Taksler. (USA) – World Premiere. Charting Bassem Youssef's rise as Egypt's foremost on-screen satirist, Tickling Giants offers a rousing celebration of free speech and a showcase for the power of satire to speak for the people against a repressive government. Where this story differs from the familiar success of Youssef's idol, Jon Stewart: Bassem's jokes come with serious, dangerous, and at times revolutionary consequences. In Arabic, English with subtitles.

TEC Class Film to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Women Who Kill, January/February 2016 six-week class film, edited by TEC teacher Ron Dulin, has been selected for the US Narrative Competition at this year's Tribeca Film Festival!

Women Who Kill, directed and written by Ingrid Jungermann. (USA) – World Premiere. Morgan and Jean work well together as true crime podcasters because they didn't work well, at all, as a couple. When Morgan strikes up a new relationship with the mysterious Simone, their shared interest turns into suspicion, paranoia, and fear. Ingrid Jungermann's whip smart feature debut is an adept and wry comedy on modern romance’s hollow results, set in an LGBTQ Brooklyn. With Ingrid Jungermann, Ann Carr, Sheila Vand, Shannon O'Neill, Annette O'Toole, Grace Rex. A 2015 Tribeca All Access grantee.

See the festival's full competition program lineup here. 

TEC Alumni film "Spotlight" Big Winner at the Oscars!

Spotlight, assistant editing by TEC alum Andy Pang, won Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards last night! The film, nominated for 6 awards in total, also took home the prize for Best Original Screenplay. 

TEC Alum Film MAVIS! on HBO

MAVIS!, edited by TEC alum and teacher Amy Foote, produced by TEC alum Rachel Mills, with associate editing by TEC alum Maya Tippett, has its broadcast premiere tonight (February 29, 2016) at 9pm on HBO. Read more about MAVIS! here. 

Magnolia Pictures acquires TEC Alum Film Little Men

Magnolia Pictures will be releasing Little Men in theaters later this year. It was edited by TEC alum Mollie Goldstein and TEC teacher Affonso Gonçalves; alums Brian Young and Katrina Pastore served as assistant editors. It stars Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, and Paulina Garcia and recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. 

Class Film Five Nights in Maine to be distributed by FilmRise

We're thrilled to see that distribution right to our January 2015 class film Five Nights in Maine have been picked up by FilmRise! The film, starring David Oyelowo and Diane Wiest, should see a theatrical release in select cities by the end of this summer. 

TEC CLASS FILM, ALUMS & TEACHERS AT SXSW

The official lineup for SXSW 2016 was announced today, and we're excited to see TEC alumni, TEC teachers and even our most recent Six-Week class project on the list!

Donald Cried | October/November 2015 Six-Week Class Project
*Narrative Feature Competition

From Nowhere | Edited by TEC alum Betsy Kagen | Assistant Editing by TEC alum Theresa McDermott
*Narrative Spotlight

Don't Think Twice | Edited by TEC teacher Geoff Richman
*Headliner

My Blind Brother | Edited by TEC alum Jenny Lee
*Narrative Spotlight

Sidemen - Long Road To Glory | Edited by TEC alum Bo Mehrad
*24 Beats Per Second selection

TEC ALUMNI & Teachers AT THE OSCARS!

We're excited to announce that a few TEC alum and TEC teacher films received Academy Award nominations this year:

Spotlight | Assistant Editing by TEC alum Andy Pang
Nominated for Best Editing, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Directing.

Cartel Land | Edited by TEC alum Matthew Hamachek
Nominated for Best Documentary.

Carol | Edited by TEC teacher Affonso Gonçalves
Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Music.

Announcing our Narrative and Documentary teachers for January

We are very excited to announce that Julia Bloch will be teaching the narrative section and Geoffrey Richman will be teaching the documentary section of our January/February 2016 Six-Week class!

Julia Bloch is a New York-based film editor who has worked on a wide range of projects, including Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winner The Tree of Life (also nominated for Best Picture at the 2012 Academy Awards) and Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin, which was awarded the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) prize when it premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes. Bloch began her film career as an assistant editor at Zentropa in Copenhagen, where she worked with Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. In 2011 she received the Sundance Institute's inaugural editing fellowship in honor of Sally Menke. Bloch just finished editing Green Room—staring Anton Yelchin (Star Trek), Alia Shawkat ("Arrested Development"), and Patrick Stewart—which will be released in theaters this spring. 

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.

Click here to register. You can find out more about our six-week class here.