Winter’s Bone, The Kids Are All Right, and Inside Job have all received awards nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. Winter’s Bone, the TEC class project in May 2009, has received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay as well as Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. Winter’s Bone was edited by TEC instructor, Affonso Goncalves, who was assisted by Naomi Goodman and Tory Stewart, both TEC alums. The Kids Are All Right, in which TEC alum Riva Marker was an executive produce received a nomination for Best Picture, as well as nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Original Screenplay. Inside Job, which was edited and co-written by TEC alums Chad Beck and Adam Bolt and assisted by alums Eugene Yi, Sheila Shirazi, and John Woo is nominated for Best Documentary Feature. Winners will be announced on February 27, 2011. For a full list of Oscar nominations, visit Oscar.com.
Instructors and Alums Nominated for Eddies
American Cinema Editors released their nominations for the annual ACE Eddie Awards which includes TEC alums and instructors. Alums/instructors Chad Beck and Adam Bolt, best-edited documentary (Inside Job); instructor Kate Sanford, best-edited one-hour series ("Do You Know What It Means" episode of "Treme"); instructor Anne McCabe, best-edited half-hour series ("Years of Service" installment of "Nurse Jackie"); instructor Susan Littenberg, best-edited feature film comedy or musical ("Easy A").
Edit Center Alums and Teachers Headed to Sundance
Sundance announced its lineup this week which includes two class films, Homework and Hot Coffee. Also headed to Park City is a slew of TEC alums/instructors. Alums: Chad Beck, Sarah Devorkin, Chris Branca (editors, Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times); Mollie Goldstein & Sophie Corra (editor and asst editor, Homework); Matt Hamachek (editor, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front); Cindy Lee & Rebecca Saladoff (editor and asst editor, Hot Coffee); Robert Austin (asst editor, The Redemption of General Buttnaked); Jennifer Lee (consulting editor, Gun Hill Road); Curtis Grout (editor, Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same); Andrew Pang, Eugene Yi (asst editors, Margin Call). Instructors: Anne McCabe (The Ledge); Colleen Sharp (Higher Ground); Eric Kissack (Cedar Rapids); Pete Beaudreau (Margin Call). For a full list of films and to see which categories the films above are screening in, visit Sundance.
Independent Spirit Award Nominations Include Class Films and Alums
The 26th annual Independent Spirit Awards' nominations were announced today and include a slew of TEC Alums, Instructors, and a class film. Winter's Bone leads the awards pack with 7 nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, and both Best Male and Female Lead. Other nominees include: Best Feature, The Kids Are Alright (Executive Producer, Riva Marker, TEC alum); Best First Feature, Night Catches Us (Editor, Affonso Gonçalves, TEC instructor); Someone to Watch Award, Hossein Keshavarz for TEC project, Dog Sweat. Also nominated for Best First Screenplay was Monogomy which was edited by TEC alum/instructor, Mollie Goldstein and Tiny Furniture which was edited by TEC alum Lance Edmands. For the full list of nominees, visit indieWIRE.
Winter's Bone Leads in Gotham Awards
Winter's Bone, the project of the May 2009 class, has been nominated for three Gotham Awards. The film was nominated in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Ensemble Performance, and Best Breakthrough Performance (Jennifer Lawrence). The film leads the pack in nominations this year and is nominated alongside Black Swan, The Kids Are Alright, and Let Me In -- to name a few. The film was edited by TEC instructor Affonso Gonçalves who was assisted by TEC alums Naomi Goodman and Victoria Stewart.
Class Film, Dog Sweat, Premieres this Summer
Dog Sweat, a class project in 2008 & 2009, will premiere at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival in the Narrative Competition category. Shot clandestinely in Tehran, the subversive Dog Sweat intertwines the lives of six young Iranians as they struggle to satisfy their private desires in the face of conservative Islamic society. Alum/instructor, Mollie Goldstein edited the film and alum Simon Wheeldon was an associate editor.
The Missing Person is Released on DVD
The Missing Person, edited by TEC alum/instructor Mollie Goldstein and the class project of the November 2007 six-week class, was released on DVD on April 13th. The film is a modern interpretation of a classic film noir, set in a post-9/11 world. It was directed by Noah Buschel, and stars Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan. The Missing Person was called "irresistible" by the New York Times and was a critic's pick in New York Magazine. The film can be purchased on Amazon.
TEC Alum Film Premieres at Tribeca
Monogamy, edited by TEC alum/instructor Mollie Goldstein, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival April 24th. The narrative focuses on Theo (Chris Messina) a Brooklyn wedding photographer whose side business is shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly. His side venture takes an unexpected turn—and creates a rift with his fiancée (Rashida Jones)—when he's hired by a provocative mystery woman (Meital Dohan).
Class Films Headed to SXSW
Four Edit Center class films to play SXSW in March. Cold Weather (July 2009), Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields (July 2008 & September 2008), For Once in My Life (July 2009), and fresh off its Sundance win, Winter's Bone (May 2009). For Once in My Life was edited by TEC Alum Amy Foote, Strange Powers was edited by Sarah Devorkin, co-edited by Naomi Goodman and assisted by Kathryn Schubert -- all of whom are alums. Winter's Bone was cut by TEC instructor, Affonso Gonçalves.
Winter's Bone Wins at Sundance
Winter's Bone, the project of the May 2009 6-week class, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance 2010 film festival. Eric Kohn of indieWIRE, writes that the film is "An elegant, soft spoken noir," and the characters' conflicts of interests "…places the drama in such a meditative world that the antagonism morphs into a tone poem with random inflections of genre conventions." And Justin Chang of Variety writes that Winter's Bone is "…utterly enveloping." The film was directed by Debra Granik, written by Granik and Anne Rosellini (Down to the Bone, Sundance 2004) and edited by TEC instructor Affonso Gonçalves, who was assisted by TEC alums Naomi Goodman and Tory Stewart.