Choking Man, a psychological drama edited by Edit Center alumni Jon Griggs and Todd Holmes, opens this week at Cinema Village. The film, which stars Mandy Patinkin ("Criminal Minds", The Princess Bride) and Aaron Paul ("Big Love", Mission Impossible 3) was previously featured at the Tribeca, Miami, and Deauville Film Festivals. Jon and Todd worked together on the film after teaching together at the Edit Center shortly after they finished the six-week class.
No End in Sight, the Iraq war documentary directed by Charles Ferguson and edited by Edit Center alumni Chad Beck and Cindy Lee, has been short-listed for the Best Documentary prize at this year's Academy Awards. Also among the 15 films on the list is Sicko, which was edited by Edit Center instructor Geoffrey Richman and directed by Michael Moore. Both Sicko and No End in Sight were among the best reviewed documentaries of 2007, with No End in Sight being singled out in particular for its "masterful" editing.
The Edit Center is pleased to announce that the class project for the upcoming November/December 2007 six-week course will be The Missing Person, directed by Noah Buscel (Bringing Rain, Neal Cassady). The Missing Person stars Michael Shannon (World Trade Center), Frank Wood ("Flight of the Conchords," winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Actor), and Amy Ryan (Capote, "The Wire," 2000 & 2005 Tony nominee for Best Actress). The film is about a private investigator hired by a grieving widow to find her missing husband who was working at the World Trade Center on September 11th but whose remains were never found. The case follows Rosow on a manhunt that puts him in the path of corrupt bureaucrats, 9/11 trauma victims, lost children, and his own memories of that terrible day. The film is produced by Jesse Scolaro and Allen Bain of The 7th Floor (who produced Gardener of Eden with Leonardo DiCaprio and the Sundance award-winner Manito). Edit Center alum Mollie Goldstein (Palindromes, "Stella") will be editing the film and, with Noah, working closely with the November/December students.
TEC alum Paul Frost has been working as an editor, since episode 5, on Kimora Lee Simmons', "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane," now airing on the Style Network. He originally came on as a first assistant editor 6 months ago, congrats Paul!
Congratulations to TEC alum Holly Schlesinger, writer and dialogue editor for "Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil." The show premiered on Cartoon Network this September and is being promoted as part of the Sunday night Adult Swim block.
Superheroes, the class project of the Sept/Oct 2006 class, was referred to in Variety as a, "wrenching two-hander about the visible and less visible scars an Iraq vet attempts to live with... Somber, affecting indie is a conversation-starter for folks who assume getting home in one piece is all that matters." Superheroes was assistant edited by TEC alum Eric Gerdts. And after an exciting premiere at The Frameline Film Festival, You Belong to Me, the class project of the March/April 2007 class, received a Variety review stating the film "benefits from crisp execution, quirky character writing and a credible sense of real-world peril." You Belong to Me was edited by TEC Instructor Anita Gabrosek, who was assisted by TEC alum Rachel Mills.
Special thanks to the guest speakers of the Spring/Summer classes: Craig McKay, Editor of Silence of the Lambs; Jay Rabinowitz, Editor of Requiem for a Dream; Chad Beck and Cindy Lee, Editors of No End in Sight (Special Jury Prize, Sundance 2007); Pete Beadreau, Editor of Room (Director's Fortnight, Cannes 2005) ; Sam Pollard, Editor of "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts" (2007 Peabody Award, directed by Spike Lee); Stephen Garret, Trailer Editor; Penny Faulk, Editor of Election Day (SXSW 2007); Fernanda Rossi, Documentary Story Consultant.
Award-winning editor Geoff Richman (Sicko, Murderball, God Grew Tired of Us), Mollie Goldstein (Palindromes, "Stella"), and Cindy Lee (No End in Sight, Grand Jury Prize Winner, Sundance) will all be teaching the July 16th class, in which the class will be editing two films: a documentary called The Pit, executive produced by the Oscar-winning team of Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein; and the off-beat dark comedy The Understudy, starring Richard Kind ("Mad About You", "Curb Your Enthusiasm") and Aasif Mandvi ("The Daily Show"). Call The Edit Center directly to inquire about availability.
After premiering at SXSW in March, Doubletime, the class project of the Nov/Dec 2005 class, will be screening at NYC's Tribeca Film Festival later this spring. Moving Midway, edited by TEC alum Ramsey Fendall and the class project of the July/Aug 2006 class, will be premiering at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April.
Doubletime, the class project of the Nov/Dec 2005 class, will premiere in March at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The film, which was edited by TEC alum Paul Frost and directed by Stephanie Johnes, will be featured in the festival's "Spotlight Premiere" category.