Palindromes, directed by Todd Solondz, will be opening at the Angelika on April 13. The film was edited by Edit Center alum Mollie Goldstein and Edit Center teacher Kevin Messman. Alumni Minnea Lin and Chad Beck worked as assistant editors. Palindromes is distributed by Wellspring and will be opening in other cities across the country after its New York premiere.
First-Time Caller, the project of the September/October 2003 six-week course, was featured in the "True Tales of Reel Life" section of the most recent issue of Indie Slate magazine. The article chronicles the process of director Paul Sullivan (a former producer for The Daily Show) and writer Ted Sullivan (an Emmy-nominee for As the World Turns) from pre-production through post. First-Time Caller was edited by Edit Center alum Jon Griggs, who is also featured in the Indie Slate story.
Alchemy, which was edited by Edit Center Alum Allison Zell, has been accepted to this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Also screening at Tribeca will be Bittersweet Place, which was edited by Edit Center alum Mark Saunders and supervised by Edit Center instructor Anne McCabe (Maria Full of Grace).
Red Doors, the project of the July/August 2004 six-week course, has been accepted to this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Georgia Lee, the film was edited by Edit Center instructor Youna Kwak, with assistance from Edit Center alum Lori Kefalos. Gymnast, directed by Oscar-nominee Edet Belzberg, was the first Edit Center project ever and will be screening in the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival this year. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It), a documentary about Melvin Van Peebles, was the project of the January/February 2002 course. Directed by Joe Angio (editor-in-chief of Time Out New York), the film will be screening at the Full Frame and Tribeca film festivals.
Ted Rodenborn, a student of the November/December 2003 six-week course, is now working full-time at Technicolor. Alumni Michael Taylor (July/August 2001) and Ben Stark (July/August 2004) are working together on the documentary Cropsey, directed by Josh Zeman (producer of The Station Agent). Michael is editing, and Ben is the associate editor and post supervisor. Edit Center instructor Kevin Messman has finished work on Hidden Inside Mountains, an HD film written and directed by musician Laurie Anderson. The film was recently displayed on the jumbo screens in Times Square.
Highway Courtesans, a documentary film about a girl born into prostitution in India, has been accepted into the Emerging Visions section of the 2005 SXSW Film Festival. Highway Courtesans was edited by Edit Center alum Todd Williams and produced by alum Anura Idupuganti.
The Edit Center class project Swimmers, which recently played in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, was very well reviewed in the Hollywood Reporter recently. "Mature audiences looking for a deeply-felt, human-scale story should be given the chance to enjoy this one in theaters," James Greenberg wrote. Swimmers was edited by Edit Center instructor Affonso Goncalves and alum Lilah Bankier, with assistance from alum Paul Kondo.
Forty Shades of Blue, edited by Edit Center instructor Affonso Goncalves, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Winning the Documentary Audience Award was Murderball, which was onlined by Edit Center alumni Matthew Jacob and Tim Goodwin. TEC Alumn Stephen Walker was the assistant editor and media manager on Murderball, which also won a Grand Jury Prize for editing.
Apple has published an article on their web site covering the Edit Center, Swimmers, and Room. Also available on the Edit Center press page, the article is called "Cut to Sundance" and covers the Edit Center's role in helping these two films (both class projects) on their way to the Sundance Film Festival.
Elliot Greenebaum's Assisted Living and Leslie Shearing's Unscrewed (formerly titled Dogs in the Basement and Sex & How to Fix It) are both opening in theaters this February. Assisted Living, which was a class project in November/December of 2000 and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival, will start at the Angelika on February 4. Unscrewed, the project of the November/December 2001 course, opens at the Quad Cinema on February 9.