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.
Director Shira-Lee Shalit has asked Tim Goodwin and Paul Frost to stay on to complete the editing of her feature, A-List. A-List was the project of the November class, in which Tim was a student and Paul was a Teaching Assistant. Mollie Goldstein, another Edit Center alum, will serve as a supervising editor for the project.
Shot on 35mm film, A-List is is the story of a man's struggle with his identity as who he really is conflicts with what he has become. In addition to newcomer Damon Shalit, the film stars Academy Award nominee Sally Kirkland, Daphne Zuniga (Melrose Place), Joanna Garcia (The Reba Show), Peter Dobson (Forrest Gump), and Sam Pancake (Legally Blonde). It also features cameos from David Carradine (Kill Bill), Renee Taylor (The Nanny), Leigh Taylor Young (Picket Fences), Eddie Albert and Shelly Winters.
Control Room, a documentary about Al-Jazeera and its coverage of the war in Iraq, was just accepted into the American Spectrum at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Control Room is directed by Start-up.com co-director Jehane Noujaim. Alumni Julia Bacha and Lilah Bankier were editors on the film and Edit Center founder Alan Oxman was the supervising editor. Post-production was done at the Edit Center.
Homework, a film edited by alum Michael Taylor, was just accepted into this year's Slamdance Film Festival. Michael took the Edit Center class in the summer of 2001. His other past projects include This So-Called Disaster, a documentary that premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and will open this spring at the Film Forum.
A Place of Our Own, a personal documentary by filmmaker Stanley Nelson (winner of a 2002 MacArthur Genius Grant), has been accepted into the Documentary Competition of this year's Sundance Film Festival. A Place of Our Own was edited by Edit Center teacher Emir Lewis and co-edited by Helen Yum, who took the Edit Center class in the summer of 2002.
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.