Lots of exciting news coming through for Great World of Sound, the class project of the January and March 2006 six-week classes. Director Craig Zobel won a Gotham Award last weekend for "Breakthrough Director" and actor Kene Holliday (who played Clarence) was nominated for "Breakthrough Actor." Great World of Sound is also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the category "Best First Feature" and Kene Holliday is nominated for "Best Supporting Male."
The Edit Center is excited to announce the addition of a second class project to the November/December 2007 6-week class. Reporter: On the Ground with Nicholas Kristof is a documentary set in central Africa which chronicles, in verité fashion, the haunting, physically grueling and, at moments, shocking voyage of Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, Nick Kristof. He is joined by two young companions—Will Okun, a 33-year old high school teacher and photographer from Chicago, and Leana Wen, a 24-year old medical student from St Louis. The reason for their trip is simple: travel to ignored conflict regions (this time Rwanda, Congo and Burundi) and report back to other Americans, via daily blogs on the New York Times website. The film will bring individual stories into rich, colorful, audible existence, thereby extending their reach and the critical issues they embody. Reporter is directed by 2007 Independent Spirit Awards Nominee, Eric Daniel Metzger, and brought to us by Stick Figure Productions who have produced numerous award-winning documentary films including, Devil’s Playground, Willie Nelson: Still Moving, and loudQUIETloud: a film about the Pixies.
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.
Great World of Sound, the March/April 2006 class project, opens at the Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas September 14, 2007 in NYC. Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com says... "Great World of Sound is under-the-radar independent filmmaking in the Jarmusch-Casssavetes mode, both noble and ruthless in spirit." Great World of Sound was director by Craig Zobel and edited by TEC Instructor Tim Streeto.
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.
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.
Great World of Sound, the class project of the Jan/Feb 2006 class, played this April Fool's Day weekend at The Walter Reade Theater with New Directors/New Films. Taking a "bitterly funny, uncomfortably true look at some small-time hustlers," Great World of Sound was proclaimed "one of the best American offerings at this year's Sundance Film Festival."
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.
Congratulations to the following films premiering this year at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival: Great World of Sound, edited by TEC instructor Tim Streeto and the class project of the January and March 2006 six-week classes; No End in Sight, edited by TEC alums Chad Beck and Cindy Lee with consulting editor Alan Oxman; Grace is Gone, co-produced and post supervised by TEC alum Riva Marker; Hounddog, edited by TEC instructor Sabine Hoffman; Never Forever, edited by TEC instructor Pete Beaudreau; Pop Foul, edited by TEC alum Paul Frank; The Ten, edited by TEC instructor Eric Kissack; and The Savages, assistant edited by TEC alum Ali Muney.