Broadway: The Golden Age, directed and edited by Rick McKay, opened to excellent reviews at the Angelika this weekend. John Carhart, a student of the November/December 2001 six-week course, was an assistant editor on the film. John previously edited the horror film Kottentail.
Liberia: An Uncivil War, edited by Edit Center alum Michael Kovalenko, will be premiering at the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival this weekends. Michael took the six-week class in March of 2002 and was a teaching assistant and then a teacher for the following classes.
Time Out New York put the documentary Control Room, which takes an inside look at Al-Jazeera's coverage of the war in Iraq, at the top of its list of must-see summer films, calling the movie a "startling new perspective on the Iraq War." Control Room's reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, and it opened at Film Forum on Friday. It will be opening across the country in the next few weeks. Control Room was directed by Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) and edited by Edit Center alumni Julia Bacha and Lilah Bankier, with Edit Center founder Alan Oxman serving as supervising editor and co-producer.
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.
Brooklyn Bound, edited by Edit Center alum Andrew Bauer, will be in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in the New York, New York Narrative Film category. Andrew took the class in the summer of 2001.
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.
Evergreen, the project of the May/June 2003 six-week class, won the Best Director Prize at the Sonoma Film Festival. Directed by Enid Zentelis, the film was edited by Edit Center instructor Meg Reticker with Edit Center alumni Anita Gabrosek and Chad Beck as associate and assistant editors, respectively. Evergreen will also be screening in New York this month as part of the Avignon/New York Film Festival.
Control Room, a documentary about Al-Jazeera and its coverage of the war in Iraq, won for Best Film at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In addition, Control Room was reviewed in the New York Times on April 2, where A.O Scott wrote that the film "proves that cinema verite is alive and well, and perhaps more potent and necessary than ever." Control Room is directed by Start-up.com co-director Jehane Noujaim. Edit Center alums Lilah Bankier and Julia Bacha were editors on the film and Edit Center founder Alan Oxman was the supervising editor. Post-production was done at the Edit Center.
Finding Eleazar: Portrait of a Tenor and a Role, has been accepted into the documentary competition of this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The film was edited by Jody Jorgensen, a graduate of the January/February 2003 six-week class.
Dogs in the Basement, the project of the November/December 2001 class, will screen at the San Francisco Film Festival on April 16 in the Castro Theater. Dogs in the Basement was directed by Leslie Shearing and edited by Edit Center alum Lilah Bankier.