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.
Control Room, a documentary about Al-Jazeera and its coverage of the war in Iraq, won for Best Film at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In addition, Control Room was reviewed in the New York Times on April 2, where A.O Scott wrote that the film "proves that cinema verite is alive and well, and perhaps more potent and necessary than ever." Control Room is directed by Start-up.com co-director Jehane Noujaim. Edit Center alums Lilah Bankier and Julia Bacha were editors on the film and Edit Center founder Alan Oxman was the supervising editor. Post-production was done at the Edit Center.
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.
Edit Center teacher Emir Lewis will be cutting Brown vs Board of Education: 50 Years Later -- America's Legacy of School Integration, the next documentary feature from directors Marco Williams and Whitney Dow (Two Towns of Jasper). Joining him as the associate editor is Edit Center alum and teacher Anita Gabrosek. Mike Giaccio, a student of the November class (which Emir and Anita taught together), will be the editing intern on the film.
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.