Year of the Bull, the project of the July/August 2002 class, won Best Documentary at this year's Sonoma Film Festival. Year of the Bull was edited by teacher Emir Lewis with assistant editors Matthew Ludvino and Sonya Rhee, who were both Emir's students in the July/August 2002 class. Matthew also edited the Year of the Bull trailer.
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.
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.
Room, the project of the March/April class, dramatizes the mid-life crisis journey of a working class American woman as she travels from her daytime Houston worries into the woods of a Grimm's fairy tale New York City at twilight. The film is being produced by The 7th Floor with executive producers Michael Stipe and Jim McKay. Director Kyle Henry's feature film debut, American Cowboy, a documentary about a gay rodeo champ, won a student Academy Award in 1998. His short, "N.EW Y.ORK C.ASINO," won the Best Experimental Short Film award at South by Southwest in 2003.
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.
Speedo, the demolition derby documentary that was a project of both the May/June and July/August classes in the summer of 2002, was just named as one of indieWIRE's Top 20 Undistributed Films of 2003. Directed by Jesse Moss, the film was edited by Edit Center teacher Aaron Lubarsky, who was assisted by three of his students (Rob Gilpatrick, Ken Yapelli, and Mollie Goldstein). "Thanks to Speedo's rapid-fire storytelling and the film's expert pacing (not to mention the killer tunes), even someone with zero interest in the demolition derby can get engrossed quickly," IndieWire wrote in their piece on Speedo.
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, the project of the June/July 2000 class, will be airing on the Independent Film Channel in January (see below for dates and times). The film was edited by Dave Kausch, a student in the class, and was an adaptation of Eric Bogosian's one-man show. Air Dates:
Wednesday, Jan 7 -- 11:00 PM
Wednesday, Jan 7 -- 4:15 AM
Thursday, Jan 8 -- 6:30 PM
Sunday, Jan 18 -- 2:45 PM
Monday, Jan 19 -- 9:00 AM
Monday, Jan 26 -- 6:30 PM
Tuesday, Jan 27 -- 8:45 AM
Tuesday, Jan 27 -- 3:15 PM
Evergreen, the project of the May 2003 class, has just been accepted into the Dramatic Competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Enid Zentelis and starring Bruce Davison and Mary Kay Place, the film was edited by Edit Center teacher Meg Reticker (who taught the May class). Meg was assisted by Chad Beck, one of the Teaching Assistants in the course. Anita Gabrosek, an Edit Center alum who was also the co-teacher of the May class, was the associate editor.
The American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens has begun using an editing demonstration put together by the Edit Center. The demo is run by museum staff for weekend visitors and school tours and features a scene from The Mudge Boy, a class project from September 2002 that played at last year's Sundance Film Festival. The Mudge Boy was edited by Edit Center teacher Affonso Goncalves and he consulted on the demonstration as well.