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May 24, 2004
Control Room Named Time Out New York's #1 Summer
Movie
Time Out New York put the documentary Control Room,
which takes an inside look at Al-Jazeera's coverage of the war
in Iraq, at the top of its list of must-see summer films, calling
the movie a "startling new perspective on the Iraq War."
Control Room's reviews have been overwhelmingly positive,
and it opened at Film Forum on Friday. It will be opening across
the country in the next few weeks. Control Room was directed
by Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) and edited by Edit Center
alumni Julia Bacha and Lilah Bankier, with Edit Center founder
Alan Oxman serving as supervising editor and co-producer.
May 6, 2004
The Mudge Boy Opens in Theaters
The Mudge Boy, the project of the September/October 2002
class, will be opening in theaters this Friday, May 7. The
Mudge Boy was edited by Edit Center instructor Affonso Goncalves
after going through the class and was in competition at the 2003
Sundance Film Festival. It was produced by Showtime and is being
distributed by Strand Releasing.
April 15, 2004
Brooklyn Bound to Screen at Tribeca
Brooklyn Bound, edited by Edit Center alum Andrew Bauer,
will be in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in the New
York, New York Narrative Film category. Andrew took the class
in the summer of 2001.
April 10, 2004
Year of the Bull Wins Best Documentary at Sonoma Film Festival
Year of the Bull, the project of the July/August 2002
class, won Best Documentary at this year's Sonoma Film Festival.
Year of the Bull was edited by teacher Emir Lewis with
assistant editors Matthew Ludvino and Sonya Rhee, who were both
Emir's students in the July/August 2002 class. Matthew also edited
the Year of the Bull trailer, which is online at www.yearofthebull.com.
April 8, 2004
Evergreen Wins Best Director at Sonoma Film Festival
Evergreen, the project of the May/June 2003 six-week
class, won the Best Director Prize at the Sonoma Film Festival.
Directed by Enid Zentelis, the film was edited by Edit Center
instructor Meg Reticker with Edit Center alumni Anita Gabrosek
and Chad Beck as associate and assistant editors, respectively.
Evergreen will also be screening in New York this month
as part of the Avignon/New York Film Festival.
April 7, 2004
Control Room Wins at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Control Room, a documentary about Al-Jazeera and its
coverage of the war in Iraq, won for Best Film at the Full Frame
Documentary Film Festival. In addition, Control Room
was reviewed in the New York Times on April 2, where
A.O Scott wrote that the film "proves that cinema verite
is alive and well, and perhaps more potent and necessary than
ever." Control Room is directed by Start-up.com
co-director Jehane Noujaim. Edit Center alums Lilah Bankier
and Julia Bacha were editors on the film and Edit Center founder
Alan Oxman was the supervising editor. Post-production was
done at the Edit Center.
April 6, 2004
The Last of the First to Premiere in the Tribeca Film Festival
The Last of the First, a jazz documentary edited by Edit
Center teacher Phil Shane, will premiere in the documentary competition
at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The screenings are on May
2, 4, and 8 in the United Artists Battery Park Theater. The film
follows the lives of the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band players, some
of the world's oldest jazz legends.
April 6, 2004
Finding Eleazar in Documentary Competition at Tribeca Film
Festival
Finding Eleazar: Portrait of a Tenor and a Role, has
been accepted into the documentary competition of this year's
Tribeca Film Festival. The film was edited by Jody Jorgensen,
a graduate of the January/February 2003 six-week class.
April 1, 2004
Dogs in the Basement to Play at the San Francisco Film Festival
Dogs in the Basement, the project of the November/December
2001 class, will screen at the San Francisco Film Festival on
April 16 in the Castro Theater. Dogs in the Basement
was directed by Leslie Shearing and edited by Edit Center alum
Lilah Bankier.
March 15, 2004
March/April Class to Edit Kyle Henry's Room
Room, the project of the March/April class, dramatizes
the mid-life crisis journey of a working class American woman
as she travels from her daytime Houston worries into the woods
of a Grimm's fairy tale New York City at twilight. The film is
being produced by The 7th Floor with executive producers Michael
Stipe and Jim McKay. Director Kyle Henry's feature film debut,
American Cowboy, a documentary about a gay rodeo champ,
won a student Academy Award in 1998. His short, "N.EW Y.ORK
C.ASINO," won the Best Experimental Short Film award at South
by Southwest in 2003.
March 15, 2004
Pete Beaudreau and Chad Beck to Teach the March/April Class
Editors Pete Beaudreau and Chad Beck will be teaching the March/April
class. Pete's editing credits include The American Astronaut,
which played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001
and was distributed by Artistic License, and XX/XY, which
played at Sundance in 2002 and was released theatrically by IFC
Films. Pete was the post-production supervisor for the film Manito,
which played in competition at Sundance in 2002 and was released
theatrically and on DVD by The Film Movement. Pete also edited
Deprivation, a documentary-style feature that the Austin
Chronicle called "an astonishing improvisational film"
and which premiered at South by Southwest in 2003. Chad Beck has
worked in both television and film and is a former Edit Center
student. He has been an assistant editor on several films including
Michael Kang's The Motel, Todd Solondz's Palindromes,
and Enid Zentelis's Evergreen (2004 Sundance Film Festival).
His television editing credits include Court TV's Psychic Detectives
and Smoking Gun TV. He is an Apple Certified Trainer in Final
Cut Pro.
March 10, 2004
Gotham Fish Tales to premiere on the Sundance Channel
The documentary Gotham Fish Tales, edited by Edit Center
graduate Dave Kausch, will premiere on the Sundance Channel on
Monday, March 22 at 9:00 pm. It will also play on the following
dates: March 25 (8:15 am), March 27 (7:30 pm), March 28 (5:40
am) and March 29 (3:00 pm).
March 1, 2004
Riva Marker and Matthew Jacob Assisting for Red Moxie
Riva Marker and Matthew Jacob, graduates of the January/February
2004 course, will be assisting on the television show Ride
with Funkmaster Flex for the production company Red Moxie.
Ride with Funkmaster Flex is aired on SpikeTV. Riva and
Matthew will also be teaching assistants for the March/April six-week
course.
February 12,
2004 "Ferry
Tales" Nominated for an Oscar
"Ferry Tales," edited by Edit Center graduate Moira
Demos, has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary
Short. Moira took the class in November of 2000. "Ferry
Tales" is about a group of women who meet every
morning in the powder room of the Staten Island ferry and is slated
for broadcast on HBO later this year.
January 30, 2004 Sharon
Hughes Assisting on Jesse Moss's Right-Wing Hollywood
Sharon Hughes, an alum from the November 2003 class who is also
a Teaching Assistant for the January class, will be assisting editor
Melissa Niedich (The Two Towns of Jasper) on Right-Wing
Hollywood, a documentary for AMC. Right-Wing Hollywood
is directed by Jesse Moss, who worked with the Edit Center in the
summer of 2002 on his demolition derby documentary, Speedo.
January 24, 2004 Down
to the Bone Wins for Directing and Acting at Sundance
Down to the Bone, which was cut by Edit Center
teacher Malcolm Jamieson, won two awards at Sundance this year:
Best Directing for Debra Granik and a Special Jury Award for lead
actress Vera Farmiga. Todd Williams, a student of Malcolm's from
the March 2003 class, was the associate editor on Down to the
Bone, and co-teacher Phil Shane served as a digital editing
consultant.
January 24, 2004
Homework Wins Best
Film at Slamdance
Homework, edited by Edit Center alum Michael Taylor,
won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Fiction Film at this year's
Slamdance Film Festival. Michael took the Edit Center class in
the summer of 2001. His other past projects include This So-Called
Disaster, a documentary that premiered at the Rotterdam Film
Festival and will open this spring at the Film Forum.
January 22, 2004 Evergreen
Reviewed in The Hollywood Reporter
Evergreen,
the project of the May 2003 class, was quite positively reviewed
in The Hollywood Reporter after the film screened in the
Dramatic Competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The
reviewer called the film "a wispy, full-bodied story...told with
a tender vigor" and a "superior competition entrant." He called
the supporting performances "remarkable" and wrote that "As written
and directed by Enid Zentelis, Evergreen is a bouyant film,
packed with everyday wisdom and propelled by the sympathetic lead
performance of Addie Land."
After the course, Evergreen was cut by Edit Center teacher
Meg Reticker (who taught the May class). Meg was assisted by Chad
Beck, one of the Teaching Assistants in the May class. Anita Gabrosek,
an Edit Center alum who was also the co-teacher of the May class,
was the associate editor.
January 19, 2004 Garden
State Acquired by Fox Searchlight and Miramax
Garden State, which was edited by Edit Center teacher Myron
Kerstein, was just acquired in an unusual joint distribution deal
between Miramax and Fox Searchlight. The film, directed by Scrubs'
Zach Braff, was an audience favorite at the Sundance Film Festival.
Myron, meanwhile, will next be working with the Weitz brothers (American
Pie, About a Boy) on their upcoming feature, See
This Movie.
January 5, 2004 Affonso
Goncalves and Rachel Kittner to Teach the January Class
The teachers of the January/February 2004 class will be Affonso
Goncalves and Rachel Kittner. Affonso just completed the film
Door in the Floor, an adaptation of a John Irving novel
starring Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges. He has also edited the films
The Mudge Boy, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole,
Trans, The Delta, and the short film "Fuzzy Logic,"
all of which played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
His other credits include Love From Ground Zero, 2x4,
the documentary The Green Monster, and Tully,
which was nominated for multiple Independent Spirit Awards. Affonso
was also an Additional Editor on Robert Altman's The Company.
Rachel Kittner graduated from Boston University with a BA in Film
and Television. She worked at Maysles Films for several years and
then went on to edit documentary films including: Scenes from
a Transplant (HBO), Ruthie and Connie for HBO (Berlin
Film Festival), and Risk/Reward for Oxygen Media (Tribeca
Film Festival). She has also edited several television projects,
including Michael Moore's The Awful Truth, Code Blue
(The Learning Channel), and City Arts (PBS).
December 31,
2003 Speedo
Named One of indieWIRE's Top 20 Undistributed Films of 2003
Speedo, the demolition derby documentary that was a project
of both the May/June and July/August classes in the summer of
2002, was just named as one of indieWIRE's Top 20 Undistributed
Films of 2003. Directed by Jesse Moss, the film was edited by
Edit Center teacher Aaron Lubarsky, who was assisted by three
of his students (Rob Gilpatrick, Ken Yapelli, and Mollie Goldstein).
"Thanks to Speedo's rapid-fire storytelling and the film's
expert pacing (not to mention the killer tunes), even someone
with zero interest in the demolition derby can get engrossed quickly,"
IndieWire wrote in their piece on Speedo.
December 29, 2003 Wake
Up and Smell the Coffee to Air on IFC
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, the project of the June/July
2000 class, will be airing on the Independent Film Channel in January
(see below for dates and times). The film was edited by Dave Kausch,
a student in the class, and was an adaptation of Eric Bogosian's
one-man show. Air Dates:
Wednesday, Jan 7 -- 11:00 PM
Wednesday, Jan 7 -- 4:15 AM
Thursday, Jan 8 -- 6:30 PM
Sunday, Jan 18 -- 2:45 PM
Monday, Jan 19 -- 9:00 AM
Monday, Jan 26 -- 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Jan 27 -- 8:45 AM
Tuesday, Jan 27 -- 3:15 PM
December 22, 2003 Paul
Frost and Tim Goodwin to Cut A-List
Director Shira-Lee Shalit has asked Tim Goodwin and Paul Frost to
stay on to complete the editing of her feature, A-List.
A-List was the project of the November class, in which
Tim was a student and Paul was a Teaching Assistant. Mollie Goldstein,
another Edit Center alum, will serve as a supervising editor for
the project.
Shot on 35mm film, A-List is is the story of a man's struggle
with his identity as who he really is conflicts with what he has
become. In addition to newcomer Damon Shalit, the film stars Academy
Award nominee Sally Kirkland, Daphne Zuniga (Melrose Place),
Joanna Garcia (The Reba Show), Peter Dobson (Forrest
Gump), and Sam Pancake (Legally Blonde). It also features
cameos from David Carradine (Kill Bill), Renee Taylor (The
Nanny), Leigh Taylor Young (Picket Fences), Eddie
Albert and Shelly Winters.
December 22, 2003 Emir
Lewis, Anita Gabrosek, and Mike Giaccio to Work on Brown v Board
of Education: 50 Years Later
Edit Center teacher Emir Lewis will be cutting Brown vs Board
of Education: 50 Years Later -- America's Legacy of School Integration,
the next documentary feature from directors Marco Williams and Whitney
Dow (Two Towns of Jasper). Joining him as the associate
editor is Edit Center alum and teacher Anita Gabrosek. Mike Giaccio,
a student of the November class (which Emir and Anita taught together),
will be the editing intern on the film.
December 22, 2003 Sam
Farrell and Ted Rodenborn to edit What Goes On
Building on the work of the November class, in which they were both
students, Sam Farrell and Ted Rodenborn will be completing the editing
of Lee and Margaret Chabowski's musical variety show, What Goes
On.
Each act in What Goes On was filmed and recorded live with
no overdubs in a setting that will enable viewers and listeners
to focus on the musical and visual aspects of the performers without
the distractions MTV-style productions. This is the first directorial
effort from the Chabowskis, who share a desire to document and portray
gifted musical acts that fall outside current perceived mainstream
marketability.
December 12, 2003 Control
Room Accepted into Sundance's American Spectrum
Control Room, a documentary about Al-Jazeera and its coverage
of the war in Iraq, was just accepted into the American Spectrum
at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Control Room is
directed by Start-up.com co-director Jehane Noujaim. Alumni
Julia Bacha and Lilah Bankier were editors on the film and Edit
Center founder Alan Oxman was the supervising editor. Post-production
was done at the Edit Center.
December 11, 2003 Homework
To Play in Competition at Slamdance
Homework, a film edited by alum Michael Taylor, was just
accepted into this year's Slamdance Film Festival. Michael took
the Edit Center class in the summer of 2001. His other past projects
include This So-Called Disaster, a documentary that premiered
at the Rotterdam Film Festival and will open this spring at the
Film Forum.
December 3, 2003 Evergreen
Accepted into Dramatic Competition at Sundance
Evergreen, the project of the May 2003 class, has just
been accepted into the Dramatic Competition at this year's Sundance
Film Festival. Directed by Enid Zentelis and starring Bruce Davison
and Mary Kay Place, the film was edited by Edit Center teacher Meg
Reticker (who taught the May class). Meg was assisted by Chad Beck,
one of the Teaching Assistants in the course. Anita Gabrosek, an
Edit Center alum who was also the co-teacher of the May class, was
the associate editor.
December 3, 2003 A
Place of Our Own Accepted into Sundance's Documentary Competition
A Place of Our Own, a personal documentary by filmmaker
Stanley Nelson (winner of a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant), has been
accepted into the Documentary Competition of this year's Sundance
Film Festival. A Place of Our Own was edited by Edit Center
teacher Emir Lewis and co-edited by Helen Yum, who took the Edit
Center class in the summer of 2002.
December 3, 2003 Edit Center Teachers' Films to Show at Sundance
Teachers Myron Kerstein and Malcolm Jamieson will both have films
in competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Myron edited
Garden State, the first feature from Zach Braff (from NBC's
Scrubs). Malcolm cut Down to the Bone, a Sundance
Lab project directed by Debra Granik. Todd Williams, a student of
Malcolm's from the March 2003 class, was the associate editor on
Down to the Bone, and co-teacher Phil Shane served as a
digital editing consultant.
December 1, 2003 TEC Editing Demonstration Playing at the Museum of the Moving Image
The American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens has begun using
an editing demonstration put together by the Edit Center. The demo
is run by museum staff for weekend visitors and school tours and
features a scene from The Mudge Boy, a class project from
September 2002 that played at last year's Sundance Film Festival.
The Mudge Boy was edited by Edit Center teacher Affonso
Goncalves and he consulted on the demonstration as well.
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