The Missing Person Acquired by Visit Films

Visit Films has picked up worldwide rights to Noah Buschel's The Missing Person, the project of the Nov/Dec 2007 class. "We are excited to be working on The Missing Person with film-makers of such a high calibre," says Sylvain Tron of Visit Films, "Noah is a real talent and has created a film with such style that it stood out to us immediately." The Missing Person stars Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) and Amy Ryan (The Office, Gone Baby Gone), was edited by TEC alum Mollie Goldstein, and will premiere at Sundance this month.

Fall Speaker Series Ranges from Mad Men to Murderball

The Edit Center would like to extend our thanks to the speakers who visited our Fall 6-week classes: Malcolm Jamieson (Mad Men, Damages, Nurse Jackie), Geoffrey Richman (Sicko, Murderball, The Order of Myths), Jane Rizzo (Great World of Sound, Frontrunners). And a very special thanks to our alumni who were able to return as Visiting Artists and discuss their work: Erica Freed (Labor Pains) and Sandy Patch (senior colorist, Frame Frame Post). Fall classes also enjoyed tours of Soundtrack, a full-service sound post house and Postworks, a professional post production house.

Edit Center Alumni and Instructors' Films to Premiere at Sundance

Edit Center alums Michael Taylor and Mollie Goldstein both edited features that will be premiering in the Spectrum section of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Michael's movie, Against the Current, was directed by Peter Callahan and stars Joseph Fiennes, Mary Tyler Moore, and Michelle Trachtenberg. Mollie cut The Missing Person, directed by Noah Buschel and starring Michael Shannon (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) and Amy Ryan (The Office). The Missing Person was also an Edit Center class project. Michael and Mollie will be joined at Sundance by two Edit Center instructors who also have films in the festival: Anne McCabe, who edited Adventureland, and Andrew Blackwell, who was the associate editor on Cold Souls. Reporter is competing in the documentary category and was worked on by TEC alums Dan Rosen and Eric Finkelstein as associate editor and assistant editor, respectively.

Three Edit Center Class Projects Head to Sundance

Peter and Vandy, Reporter, and The Missing Person, all 2007-2008 Edit Center class projects, will be premiering at Sundance in January. Peter and Vandy, which was edited after the class by TEC instructor Geoff Richman, is competing in the narrative category and Reporter, directed by Eric Meztgar, will be screening in the documentary competition. The Missing Person, which was edited by Edit Center Alum Mollie Goldstein, will be part of the Spectrum section of the festival.

TEC Alums and Instructors Short-Listed for an Oscar

Three of the fifteen films short-listed for the Best Documentary prize at this year's Academy Awards were worked on by TEC alums and instructors. Pray the Devil Back to Hell, directed by guest lecturer, Gini Reticker and edited by instructor Meg Reticker is, “Uplifting, disheartening, inspiring, enraging…” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times. The Betrayal – Nerakhoon, directed by Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, DP) and post supervised by TEC alum Riva Marker, is “contemplative and impressionistic,” AO Scott, NY Times. In a Dream (SXSW Audience Award 2008) directed by Jeremiah Zagar with TEC alum and instructor, Sandy Patch, as colorist and on-line editor.

Alumni Film Opening in NYC

Run for Your Life, a documentary edited by TEC alum Alison Shurman opens this week in NYC. The film, directed by Emmy nominated filmmaker Judd Ehrlich, chronicles the life of Fred Lebow who founded the New York City Marathon. After Run for Your Life premiered at Tribeca this year, Alison's work was praised by NY Times film critic AO Scott, who wrote that "The film's words and images... create a time-lapse picture of New York's renewal." Judd's next film, an untitled documentary about a magic camp, will be workshopped in The Edit Center's upcoming Nov/Dec 6-week class.

Summer Speaker Series Ranges from 30 Rock to The Lives of Others

The Edit Center would like to extend our thanks to all the editors who visited our summer 6-week classes: Affonso Gonçalves (40 Shades of Blue, Married Life, New York I Love You), Meg Reticker (30 Rock, Wet Hot American Summer), and Stephen Garrett (trailer editor for The Lives of Others, Half Nelson, Encounters at the End of the World). And a very special thanks to our alumni who were able to return and discuss their work: Michael Taylor (The Order of Myths, Day Night Day Night), Ramsey Fendall (Moving Midway), and Alison Shurman (Run for Your Life).

Finishing Heaven Premieres at the LA Film Festival

Finishing Heaven, the project of the Sept/Oct 2007 six-week class, recently premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The VARIETY review of the film singled out editor (and TEC alum) Amy Foote for how she "smoothly weaves in and out of the new and old footage." Finishing Heaven is directed by Mark Mann and produced by Independent Spirit Award winning producers David Shapiro and Laurie Gwen Shapiro. It has been purchased by HBO and will be airing in 2009.

Silverdocs Film Festival

At this year's Silverdoc Film Festival, The Order of Myths, edited by TEC alum Michael Taylor, won the Cinematic Vision Award. Winning Best Music Documentary was Throw Down Your Heart which was edited by TEC Alum Scott Burgess.

The Recruiter Screening in Theaters and on HBO

The Recruiter (formerly titled The Army Recruiter), which was a project of the July/August 2005, September/October 2005, and May/June 2006 six-week classes at the Edit Center, will be screening in several places this summer. It is currently playing at the Cinema Village in New York City, and in June the film will open in the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. In July, The Recruiter will begin airing on HBO. The film was directed by Macarthur-winner Edet Belzberg and edited by Edit Center alumni Adam Bolt and Chad Beck (who edited the Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight).