The Edit Center class project Swimmers, which recently played in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, was very well reviewed in the Hollywood Reporter recently. "Mature audiences looking for a deeply-felt, human-scale story should be given the chance to enjoy this one in theaters," James Greenberg wrote. Swimmers was edited by Edit Center instructor Affonso Goncalves and alum Lilah Bankier, with assistance from alum Paul Kondo.
Forty Shades of Blue, edited by Edit Center instructor Affonso Goncalves, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Winning the Documentary Audience Award was Murderball, which was onlined by Edit Center alumni Matthew Jacob and Tim Goodwin. TEC Alumn Stephen Walker was the assistant editor and media manager on Murderball, which also won a Grand Jury Prize for editing.
Down to the Bone, edited by Edit Center teacher Malcolm Jamieson with associate editor Todd Williams (a TEC alum), and Liberia: An Uncivil War, edited by TEC alum Michael Kovalenko, have both been featured as two of IndieWire's Top 15 Undistributed Films of 2005. "If Debra Granik's Down to the Bone can't find a good distribution deal, indie film is really dead," said IndieWire. "The film's climax, involving a betrayal of more than just love, hits a nerve as deep as any of this year's Oscar contenders."
Swimmers and Room, both projects of Edit Center classes in 2004, have both been accepted to the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Swimmers, directed by Doug Sadler, will be screening in the American Spectrum section of the festival. After the class, Swimmers was edited by Edit Center teacher Affonso Goncalves and alum Lilah Bankier, with assistant editor (and Edit Center alum) Paul Kondo. Room, directed by Kyle Henry, was edited by Edit Center teacher Pete Beaudreau with assistance from alumni Riva Marker and Victoria Lang. It will be featured in the Frontier category.
Evergreen, the project of the May/June 2003 six-week course, has opened in AMC theaters nationwide and is garnering great reviews from critics across the country. The LA Times writes that Evergreen is “the kind of small, deeply personal American film that rarely surfaces even in art theaters these days…Mainstream moviegoers at their local AMC willing to stray from Hollywood fare may find themselves pleasantly surprised," and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says it is "a rare film that's about social class in American life, and Bellingham writer-director Enid Zentelis explores its hidden structure and silent barriers in a novel, subtle way that makes its points without hitting us over the head with them." Evergreen was edited by Edit Center instructor Meg Reticker, with alumni Anita Gabrosek and Chad Back serving as associate and assistant editors.
Year of the Bull, the project of two summer 2002 classes, is airing on Showtime this month. The film, a documentary that follows a high school football star in his senior year, was edited by Edit Center instructor Emir Lewis and Edit Center alum Matthew Ludvino. Alum Sonya Rhee was an assistant editor on the film, which won the Best Documentary Award at the Sonoma Film Festival earlier this year.
Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story will be airing on PBS on Tuesday, August 24 at 10:00pm. Speedo, directed by Jesse Moss, was the project of the July 2002 course and was edited by Edit Center instructor Aaron Lubarsky (Journeys With George). Edit Center alums Rob Gilpatrick, Ken Yapelli and Mollie Goldstein were assistant editors on the film.
Todd Solondz's fourth film, Palindromes, was just accepted to the Special Presentations section of the 2004 Toronto Film Festival. Palindromes was edited by Edit Center alum Mollie Goldstein and Edit Center teacher Kevin Messman. Mollie took the Edit Center class in July of 2002.
The Mudge Boy, the project of the September/October 2002 class, will be opening in theaters this Friday, May 7. The Mudge Boy was edited by Edit Center instructor Affonso Goncalves after going through the class and was in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. It was produced by Showtime and is being distributed by Strand Releasing.
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.