Frozen River, the project of the May 2007 6-week class, has been nominated for two Academy Awards. The categories include: Original Screenplay, Courtney Hunt and Best Female Lead, Melissa Leo. Frozen River was edited by TEC instructor, Kate Williams.
The New Twenty, formerly titled Fast Company and the project of the November 2006 6-week class, opens at NYC's Quad theater in March. The New Twenty, which Chuck Wilson of LA Weekly called "A sleek and accomplished debut film," was edited by TEC alum Todd Holmes and is being distributed by Wolfe Video. The film will also be broadcasted on MTV Logo, released on DVD in June, and can be viewed on video on demand through Warner Home Video.
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.
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.
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.
Frozen River, the project of the May/June 2007 6-week class, has been nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards. The categories include: Best Feature; Best Director, Courtney Hunt; Best Female Lead, Melissa Leo; Best Supporting Female, Misty Upham; Best Supporting Male, Charlie McDermott; and Best First Screenplay, Courtney Hunt. Frozen River was edited by TEC instructor, Kate Williams.
Two Edit Center class projects are being released on DVD this fall. Manhattan, Kansas, the project of the May/June 2005 six-week course, is coming out on November 18, and Swing State, the project of November/December 2006 and January/February 2007 classes, was released on November 4. Manhattan, Kansas was edited by TEC alum Cindy Lee and is being distributed by Carnivalesque Films. The Film Society of Lincoln Center called the movie "simple and direct" and "emotionally blunt and affecting -- Manhattan, Kansas acknowledges that love abides, even when forgiveness is not always easy or possible." Swing State, which the Syracuse New Times called "fresh and timely," was edited by TEC alum Erica Freed and is being distributed by Morningstar Entertainment.
Nursery University, formerly titled The Diaper League and the project of the March/April 2007 6-week class, screened to a sold out theatre at the Margaret Mead film festival this past weekend. The two NY Times articles written about the film express that it "...depicts New York City parents as a fascinating anthropological subculture,” and that the film "examines the sometimes laughable lengths to which parents go to help their children, but to its credit, the film does not ridicule or judge them." The articles can be found here and here.
Nursery University, the project of the March/April 2007 six-week course (when it was titled Diaper League), will be screening at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History November 15th. Nursery University premiered at the Hampton's International Film Festival this fall and was reviewed by John Anderson of VARIETY who wrote the film was "...handled with such good humor and humanity by Simon (the director) that you start to forget that what you're so involved with is the question of where some very short people...are going to be finger-painting for the next eight months."
Frozen River, the project of the May/June 2007 six-week class, premieres in NY and LA on August 1. The film stars Melissa Lo (21 Grams, The L-Word) and was the winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature. TEC instructor Kate Williams edited the film.