Edet Belzberg, director of Gymnast (an Edit Center class project in 1999) and The Army Recruiter (the project of the current Edit Center class), has been awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. Edet's first film, Children Underground, was nominated for an Oscar in 2002.
Red Doors, the project of the July/August 2004 six-week course, has been accepted to this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Georgia Lee, the film was edited by Edit Center instructor Youna Kwak, with assistance from Edit Center alum Lori Kefalos. Gymnast, directed by Oscar-nominee Edet Belzberg, was the first Edit Center project ever and will be screening in the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival this year. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It), a documentary about Melvin Van Peebles, was the project of the January/February 2002 course. Directed by Joe Angio (editor-in-chief of Time Out New York), the film will be screening at the Full Frame and Tribeca film festivals.