March/April Class to Edit Kyle Henry's Room

Room, the project of the March/April class, dramatizes the mid-life crisis journey of a working class American woman as she travels from her daytime Houston worries into the woods of a Grimm's fairy tale New York City at twilight. The film is being produced by The 7th Floor with executive producers Michael Stipe and Jim McKay. Director Kyle Henry's feature film debut, American Cowboy, a documentary about a gay rodeo champ, won a student Academy Award in 1998. His short, "N.EW Y.ORK C.ASINO," won the Best Experimental Short Film award at South by Southwest in 2003.

 

Sharon Hughes Assisting on Jesse Moss's Right-Wing Hollywood

Sharon Hughes, an alum from the November 2003 class who is also a Teaching Assistant for the January class, will be assisting editor Melissa Niedich (The Two Towns of Jasper) on Right-Wing Hollywood, a documentary for AMC. Right-Wing Hollywood is directed by Jesse Moss, who worked with the Edit Center in the summer of 2002 on his demolition derby documentary, Speedo. 

 

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Homework Wins Best Film at Slamdance

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Homework, edited by Edit Center alum Michael Taylor, won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Fiction Film at 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.

 

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Evergreen Reviewed in The Hollywood Reporter

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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. 

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Speedo Named One of the indieWIRE's Top 20 Undistributed Films of 2003

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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. 

 

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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee to Air on IFC

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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, the project of the June/July 2000 class, will be airing on the Independent Film Channel in January (see below for dates and times). The film was edited by Dave Kausch, a student in the class, and was an adaptation of Eric Bogosian's one-man show. Air Dates: 
Wednesday, Jan 7 -- 11:00 PM
Wednesday, Jan 7 -- 4:15 AM
Thursday, Jan 8 -- 6:30 PM
Sunday, Jan 18 -- 2:45 PM 
Monday, Jan 19 -- 9:00 AM 
Monday, Jan 26 -- 6:30 PM 
Tuesday, Jan 27 -- 8:45 AM 
Tuesday, Jan 27 -- 3:15 PM 

Sam Farrell and Red Rodenborn to edit What Goes On

Building on the work of the November class, in which they were both students, Sam Farrell and Ted Rodenborn will be completing the editing of Lee and Margaret Chabowski's musical variety show, What Goes On. 

Each act in What Goes On was filmed and recorded live with no overdubs in a setting that will enable viewers and listeners to focus on the musical and visual aspects of the performers without the distractions MTV-style productions. This is the first directorial effort from the Chabowskis, who share a desire to document and portray gifted musical acts that fall outside current perceived mainstream marketability.