Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, directed by Margaret Brown and edited by Edit Center alum Michael Taylor, has been purchased for distribution by Palm Pictures. The film premiered in the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.
Evergreen Opens to Excellent Reviews
Evergreen, the project of the May/June 2003 six-week course, has opened in AMC theaters nationwide and is garnering great reviews from critics across the country. The LA Times writes that Evergreen is “the kind of small, deeply personal American film that rarely surfaces even in art theaters these days…Mainstream moviegoers at their local AMC willing to stray from Hollywood fare may find themselves pleasantly surprised," and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer says it is "a rare film that's about social class in American life, and Bellingham writer-director Enid Zentelis explores its hidden structure and silent barriers in a novel, subtle way that makes its points without hitting us over the head with them." Evergreen was edited by Edit Center instructor Meg Reticker, with alumni Anita Gabrosek and Chad Back serving as associate and assistant editors.
Year of the Bull Airing on Showtime
Year of the Bull, the project of two summer 2002 classes, is airing on Showtime this month. The film, a documentary that follows a high school football star in his senior year, was edited by Edit Center instructor Emir Lewis and Edit Center alum Matthew Ludvino. Alum Sonya Rhee was an assistant editor on the film, which won the Best Documentary Award at the Sonoma Film Festival earlier this year.
Evergreen to Open at AMC Theaters
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 to Air on PBS
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 to Air on the Discovery Channel
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 Accepted to Venice
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.
Palindromes Accepted to 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 Accepted to Toronto
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.
Katy Fisher Assisting on Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda
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.