TEC alumni film From Nowhere took home an Audience Award in the Narrative Spotlight section at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival! From Nowhere was edited by TEC teacher & alum Betsy Kagen, with TEC alum Theresa McDermott serving as assistant editor. Variety praises the film, "a compelling indie drama about the day-to-day lives and anxieties of three undocumented high-school students." You can read the full Variety review here.
TEC Alumni film "The Birth of Saké" Now Playing at IFC Center
The documentary The Birth of Saké, edited by TEC alum Takeshi Fukunaga, is now playing at the IFC Center. The Birth of Saké won Special Jury Mention and Best New Documentary Director prizes at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. For showtimes and more information, click here.
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