Garbage Dreams, the project of the January 2008 six-week class, makes its television premiere on PBS' Independent Lens on April 27th. TEC Alums, Marichelle Tañag and Brian Richman were both assistant editors on the film. For more info, visit: Independent Lens.
Garbage Dreams, the project of the Jan 2008 six week class, was reviewed today in the NY Times. Jeannette Catsoulis writes, "Expertly weaving personal fears, family tensions and political action (the zabbaleen don’t whine; they strive to modernize), Garbage Dreams records the tremblings of a culture at a crossroads." The film is on the short list for an Academy Award and screens at the IFC center starting NYC January 6th. Full review here.
Garbage Dreams, the project of the January 2008 6-week class, will have a one-week run January 6-12, 2010 at the IFC Center in NYC. The documentary was recently shortlisted for an Academy Award and last month screened at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, the largest doc fest in the world.
Garbage Dreams, the project of the January 2008 six-week class, made it on the short-list in the Documentary Feature category for the 82nd Academy Awards. It was one of 15 films selected from the original 89 films that qualified. The film was directed by Mai Iskander and TEC Alum, Marichelle Tañag, was 1st assistant editor on the film.
Garbage Dreams, the project of the January 2008 6-week class, won the coveted James Lyons editing award for documentary feature at the 2009 Woodstock Film Festival this past weekend. Earlier this year, the film received the REEL Current Award from Al Gore who said of the film, "Garbage Dreams makes a compelling case that modernization does not always equal progress."
Garbage Dreams, the project of the January 2008 6-week class, will be featured in the 2009 DocuWeeks Showcase. DocuWeeks is an event sponsored by the International Documentary Association to help independent documentaries be seen in theaters in both NYC and LA, the two cities a documentary must screen in to be considered for an Oscar nomination. Garbage Dreams is one of 18 features scheduled to play at L.A.'s ArcLight Hollywood and NYC IFC Center. TEC Alums, Marichelle Tañag and Brian Richman were both assistant editors on the film.
Garbage Dreams, a film that celebrates the richness, strength and vitality of Egypt's community of indigenous garbage collectors, known as the Zaballeen or “garbage people," was a crowd favorite at the festival selling out for all three of its screenings. Of Sorry, Thanks, Eric Kohn of indieWIRE writes the film has "keen insight into human behavior," and that it "...has a wonderfully coherent structure, fully developed personalities and mostly gorgeous photograph." Garbage Dream's next screening will be at the Vail Film Festival in April. Sorry, Thanks' next stop will be at the Sarasota Film Festival in April as well.
Two class films, Trucker and Garbage Dreams, will be screening at this year's Vail Film Festival. Trucker, the project of the September 2007 class, stars Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Gone Baby Gone) and Nathan Fillion (Waitress, Serenity) -- the film was post-supervised by TEC alum, Riva Marker. TEC alums Marichelle Tanang and Brian Richman were assistant editors on the documentary, Garbage Dreams, the project of January 2008 class. Also screening at Vail is the narrative film, True Adolescents, edited and co-produced by TEC alum Jenny Lee.
Sorry, Thanks and Garbage Dreams, both projects of the Jan/Feb 2008 class, will premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in March. Sorry, Thanks (starring Wiley Wiggins) will premiere in the Emerging Visions section and Garbage Dreams, a film that celebrates the richness, strength and vitality of Egypt's community of indigenous garbage collectors, known as the Zaballeen or “garbage people" will compete in the Documentary Feature category.
The Edit Center is pleased to announce the class projects for the upcoming January/February 2008 six-week course. The first film will be Sorry, Thanks, starring Wiley Wiggins (Dazed and Confused, Waking Life), and Andrew Bujalski (Funny Ha Ha). Sorry, Thanks is a film about real relationships-ambiguous, underwhelming, incidental-and the people who change us...then exit just as quickly. It is directed by Dia Sokol who was the in-house producer for acclaimed director Errol Morris for four years (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) and has worked as a producer for Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me). The second film will be Garbage Dreams, a feature documentary that celebrates the richness, strength and vitality of Egypt's community of indigenous garbage collectors, known as the Zaballeen or “garbage people.” Garbage Dreams is directed by Mai Iskander. Iskander has worked with legendary Academy-Award Nominee Albert Maysles on the documentary Profiles of a Peacemaker and Academy-Award Nominee Edet Belzberg on her documentary The Unofficial Man. She has also worked on dozens of features such as Men in Black and As Good as It Gets.