Evergreen, the project of the May 2003 course, will be opening in AMC Theaters nationwide on September 10. This caps off a series of festival successes for Evergreen, which premiered in the dramatic competition of the 2003 Sundance film festival. Evergreen was edited by Edit Center instructor Meg Reticker (Heavy, The Big One, Wet Hot American Summer) with associate editor Anita Gabrosek and assistant editor Chad Beck (both Edit Center alumni.)
Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story will be airing on PBS on Tuesday, August 24 at 10:00pm. Speedo, directed by Jesse Moss, was the project of the July 2002 course and was edited by Edit Center instructor Aaron Lubarsky (Journeys With George). Edit Center alums Rob Gilpatrick, Ken Yapelli and Mollie Goldstein were assistant editors on the film.
Liberia: An Uncivil War, edited by Michael Kovalenko, will be airing on the Discovery Times Channel this Saturday at 8:00pm. The film showed in New York earlier this summer at the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival after premiering at the Silverdocs Film Festival. Michael is an Edit Center alum who took the six-week course in March of 2002.
Palindromes, directed by Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Storytelling), will be screening in competition at this year's Venice Film Festival. Palindromes was edited by Edit Center alum Mollie Goldstein and Edit Center teacher Kevin Messman. The film will also be in the Special Presentations section of this year's Toronto Film Festival.
Todd Solondz's fourth film, Palindromes, was just accepted to the Special Presentations section of the 2004 Toronto Film Festival. Palindromes was edited by Edit Center alum Mollie Goldstein and Edit Center teacher Kevin Messman. Mollie took the Edit Center class in July of 2002.
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt has been accepted to the Toronto Film Festival. Be Here to Love Me was edited by Michael Taylor, an Edit Center alum who also cut Homework (Grand Jury Prize, Slamdance 2004) and This So-Called Disaster (featuring Sean Penn and Nick Nolte). Michael was a script supervisor (Bad Santa, Monster's Ball) before taking the Edit Center course.
Edit Center alum Katy Fisher is currently assisting editor Alisa Lepselter on Woody Allen's next feature, Melinda and Melinda. Katy was also an assistant editor on Door in the Floor and the upcoming Heights, a Merchant Ivory film starring Glenn Close.
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.