We're excited to announce that alum Kate McLane directed and edited the narrative feature Pamela that has just been released on Amazon!
Pamela | Directed/Edited/Written by Kate McLane
“'Pamela' is a darkly comedic family drama that takes place over one dinner. Secrets are revealed and old conflicts re-emerge.”
Click here to watch the film.
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, edited by TEC Alum Chris Iversen, was nominated for the Best Music Documentary IDA Award. Check out the full list of nominees here.
The film, directed by Thom Zimny, is available to steam on YouTube.
“Johnny Cash stands among the giants of 20th century American life, but his story remains tangled in mystery and myth. This documentary brings Cash the man out from behind the legend.”
TEC Alums Steve Tyler and Regina Sobel are nominated for the Best Editing IDA Award for their work editing the documentary feature Human Nature.
Check out the full list of nominees here.
“The biggest tech revolution of the 21st Century isn't digital, it's biological. A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR's far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families its affecting, and the bio-engineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.”
We're happy to announce that Betsy Kagen and Adam Bolt will be teaching in our upcoming Jan/Feb 2020 Six-Week class! Betsy Kagen will be the instructor for the narrative section and Adam Bolt the documentary instructor.
Betsy Kagen is a narrative and documentary film editor, who teaches at The Edit Center when she's not cutting features. Her most recent credits include Jenny Slate's Netflix comedy special Stage Fright, director Adam Leon's upcoming film starring Vanessa Kirby and Maya Hawke, Who We Are Now, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival (starring Julianne Nicholson, Emma Roberts, Jimmy Smits, and Zachary Quinto), The King (directed by Eugene Jarecki), which premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and My Art (starring Laurie Simmons, Blair Brown, Parker Posey, and Lena Dunham), which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival. Betsy is currently editing Padma Lakshmi's new series for Hulu.
Adam Bolt is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. His credits include: editor and co-writer, Inside Job, 2011 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary; editor, writer, and senior producer of Showtime’s Emmy-award-winning documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously"; and editor and co-producer of The Recruiter (HBO), which won a Columbia duPont award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2010. Most recently, he directed and produced the documentary Human Nature, which premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival and will be showing on BBC Storyville later this year.
Click here to register. You can find out more about our six-week class here.
Bull, edited by TEC Alum and Instructor Todd Holmes, screened at the 45th Deauville American Film Festival and took home the Grand Prize, the Revelation Prize for best first film and the Critics’ Prize.
Following this win, it was announced that Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired North American rights to the film.
Directed by Annie Silverstein
"In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who's seen his best days in the arena; it's a collision that will change them both."
For more information on the films success at Deauville, click here.
For more information on the films distribution, click here.
Albanian Gangster , directed by Matthew A. Brown, the project of the July/September 2017 6-week class, premieres this Friday, October 11th in select theaters including AMC Empire 25 in Times Square. The film was selected as part of AMC’s Independent program for a Limited Theatrical Release in select cinemas in NYC, LA and Detroit.
“Albanian Gangster stars real-life Albanian immigrant and New York resident John Rezaj in the lead role. Ashley C. Williams plays Leon’s love interest, and Brian Patrick Murphy and Brooke Stone round out the key cast.” (ScreenDaily.com)
TEC alum and instructor, Josh Melrod, edited the film with TEC alum Cassandra Diamandas as assistant editor.
Advance Tickets Available here.
We're excited to announce that an alumni produced documentary feature Born To Be will have it's World Premiere at this year's New York Film Festival!
Born To Be | Directed by Tania Cypriano, Produced by Rachel Mills
“Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, Born to Be perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.”
For more information and a link to tickets, click here.
We're very excited to announce both the teacher and class film in the documentary portion of our October/November 2019 class!
Documentary Instructor
Isabel Ponte is a Brooklyn-based documentary editor and producer. She is the editor and writer of The Truth About Killer Robots, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2018 and was broadcast on HBO. She also served as the associate editor of Fail State, which premiered at DOC NYC and broadcast on Starz, and the additional editor of Madidi, a verite doc about jaguar poaching set to premiere in 2020. Past short-form work includes documentary pieces for The Guardian and other news outlets, and assistant editing for The New York Times' Op-Docs section.
Documentary Class Film
Flood
A filmmaker tries to understand to her father's young-earth creationism by scripting a father-daughter screenplay. When her work only drives them apart, she changes tactics and picks up her camera. She and her whole family become protagonists in a documentary about their struggle to love each other and stay together despite deep divides and disparate beliefs.
Directed by Katy Scoggin
Katy Scoggin was a co-producer and cinematographer on Oscar-winning CITIZENFOUR and its follow-up, Risk; an associate producer on Emmy-nominated The Oath; and a producer on New York Times Op-Docs The Program and Death of a Prisoner. Throughout its evolution from scripted film to documentary, her first feature film Flood has received support from Sundance, Film Independent, the Sloan Foundation, IFP Doc Lab, DCTV WIP Docu Lab, Berlinale Talents, the MacDowell Colony, and BAVC MediaMaker Fellowship. Katy was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin and went to film school at NYU. Before picking up a camera, she made sculptures from welded iron and margarine.
Click here to register. You can find out more about our six-week class here.
We're excited to announce that an alumni directed short will have it's World Premiere at this year's New York Film Festival!
Automatic | Directed by Emma Doxiadi
“Two young women convince each other they are under threat after accidentally photographing what they believe to be a concealed automatic rifle. Shot in drawn-out, static takes, Emma Doxiadi’s comical mystery comments on Greece’s ongoing refugee crisis in real time, pointing squarely at foolish knee-jerk reactions.”
The film will have its World Premiere at NYFF Short Program 3: Narrative. This year’s four Shorts programs feature a mix of narrative and documentary films from established and emerging artists, with 10 world premieres, including all titles in the annual New York Stories program.
For more information and a link to tickets, click here.
We're excited to announce that six TEC-affiliated projects are included at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Congratulations to all involved!
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood | Editor Anne McCabe (TEC Teacher)
Directed by Marielle Heller
“A jaded journalist (Matthew Rhys) reluctantly accepts an Esquire assignment to profile the children’s television host Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks), and encounters a profoundly empathetic world view that changes his life forever.”
And We Go Green | Assistant Editor Vanessa Trengrove (TEC Alum)
Directed by Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville
“Professional drivers on the international Formula E circuit — like Formula One, but with eco-friendly electric cars — race for victory across 10 cities, in this white-knuckle documentary from filmmaker Malcolm Venville, Oscar-winning director Fisher Stevens (The Cove), and producer Leonardo DiCaprio.”
Bad Education | Editor Louise Ford, Assistant Editor Katrina Pastore (TEC Alums)
Directed by Cory Finley
“Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, and Ray Romano star in this fact-based dramedy directed by Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds), about an infamous school-larceny scandal that rocked Long Island in the early aughts.”
Dads | Assistant Editor Kayla Sklar (TEC Alum)
Directed by Bryce Dallas Howard
“Dads is a joyful exploration of contemporary fatherhood. The film draws on the testimonies of famous funnymen such as Judd Apatow, Will Smith, Jimmy Fallon, Neil Patrick Harris, Kenan Thompson, Jimmy Kimmel, and Ken Jeong. Their reflections are combined with portraits of non-celebrity dads from different parts of the world — Brazil, Japan, the United States — who are creating new models of patriarchy. It's funny, heartwarming, and also revealing. (Apparently even professional comedians resort to dad jokes.)”
Frankie | Assistant Editor Matt Yaple (TEC Alum)
Directed by Ira Sachs
“An aging actor (Isabelle Huppert) summons her idiosyncratic extended family on a fateful holiday, in Ira Sachs’ thoughtful dramedy co-starring Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, Jérémie Renier, and Greg Kinnear.”
The Lighthouse | Editor Louise Ford, Assistant Editor Katrina Pastore
Directed by Robert Eggers
“Shot on 35mm black-and-white film, this psychological thriller from Robert Eggers (The Witch) follows the slow descent into madness of two lighthouse keepers (Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson) on a remote New England island at the turn of the 19th century.”