The Understudy, the project of the July/August 2007 six-week class, was awarded "Best Original Score" by the composers' union of France at the Avignon Film Festival. TEC instructor Kate Eales edited the film after the course, and it was directed by husband-and-wife team Hannah Davis and David Conolly. Next, the film will be screening at the Cambridge Film Festival in September.
The Recruiter (formerly titled The Army Recruiter), which was a project of the July/August 2005, September/October 2005, and May/June 2006 six-week classes at the Edit Center, will be screening in several places this summer. It is currently playing at the Cinema Village in New York City, and in June the film will open in the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. In July, The Recruiter will begin airing on HBO. The film was directed by Macarthur-winner Edet Belzberg and edited by Edit Center alumni Adam Bolt and Chad Beck (who edited the Oscar-nominated documentary No End in Sight).
Hotel Gramercy Park, directed by Douglas Keeve (Unzipped) and produced by Wendy Ettinger (The War Room), premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last month and received a Special Mention in the category of New York State LOVES Film, Best Documentary. Harvey Feinstein of INDIEWIRE wrote that the film is "... a model of rhythmic doc editing and mise-en-scene, with colliding story lines that create sparks as they document seismic shifts in the New York City scene." TEC alums Mollie Goldstein and Cindy Lee edited the film, along with fellow alumni Ramsey Fendall and Anita Gabrosek as additional editors and Nick Bussey and Sarah Lynch as assistant editors.
Congratulations Frozen River for receiving the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at this year's Sundance Film Festival! Frozen River, directed by Courtney Hunt, was the May/June 6-week class project. Congrats to everyone who worked on it! Also premiering at Sundance was The Recruiter (formerly An American Solider), edited by Edit Center alumni, Chad Beck and Adam Bolt. It received a positive review in VARIETY and THE ADVOCATE, "For all the talk about putting a "human face" on the war in Iraq, there may be no better vehicle than The Recruiter, the devastating new documentary from director Edet Belzburg." Congratulations are also in order for TEC Alum Michael Taylor and TEC instructor Geoffrey Richman. They edited The Order of the Myths, directed by Margaret Brown, which Manohla Dargis of the NY TIMES said was "...Handsomely shot and intelligently edited."
Congratulations to alumni and instructors for their films' 2008 Oscar nominations. No End in Sight, the Iraq war documentary directed by Charles Ferguson, was edited by Edit Center alumni/instructors Chad Beck and Cindy Lee. TEC instructor, Geoffrey Richman, edited Michael Moore's Sicko. Also, TEC Alum, Kristin Lesko, co-produced the documentary Operation Homecoming. Good Luck!
Congratulations to the following alumni, instructors, and films premiering at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival: TEC instructor Tim Streeto (editor), alumni Riva Marker (associate producer) and Anthony Brandonisio (post-production coordinator) for Diminished Capacity; TEC instructor Andrew Blackwell (associate editor) Sugar; Alum Michael Taylor (editor) The Order of Myths; Alum Sharon Perlman (post-production assistant) The Savages; Alum Jennifer Lee (assistant editor) American Teen; Instructor Eric Kissack (editor) Birds of America.
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.
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.