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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.