Alum Faisal Azam was the editor and post-production supervisor on the sci-film short, Photographic Memory, which will premiere at the short film section of the Cannes Film Festival in May. Nisi Jacobs is currently curating experimental video/film programs for The Phatory gallery, one of which, Broca's Aphasia: Disturbances of Language, honors Nisi's father.
Room, the project of the March/April 2004 six-week course, has been accepted to the Director's Fortnight of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Room, which premiered earlier this year at Sundance, was directed by Kyle Henry and edited by Edit Center instructor Pete Beaudreau. Alumni Riva Marker and Victoria Lang were assistant editors on the film.
In brief: Minnea Lin was the assistant editor on Boys of Baraka, a documentary that won the Special Jury Award and SXSW this year and will be screening at the Human Rights Festival in New York in June. Don Evans is in Los Angeles, freelancing for the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi and waiting to hear the fate of a pilot he edited for NBC. Giacomo Ambrosini is cutting a fund-raising trailer for the political documentary Wide Open. And Ancil McKain is in the Caribbean, working as a series editor on the television show Run'Bout, a treasure-hunt reality game show.
Woody Allen's next feature, Match Point, will be premiering at Cannes this summer. Edit Center alum Katy Fisher was the assistant editor on the film, working with editor Alisa Lepselter. Katy has also assisted on Forty Shades of Blue, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year; Door in the Floor; and Raising Victor Vargas.
Anytown, USA won the Emerging Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival. The film was edited by Edit Center alum Sandy Patch (with co-editor Robert Greene), who took the six-week course in March of 2004. The Minnesota Daily wrote that, "Making its world premiere Saturday at the Lagoon Cinema, the hilarious and endlessly quirky Anytown, USA should have a strong, popular future ahead of it. Indeed, directed by Kristian Fraga and produced by John Sikes, Anytown, USA mixes the humor of the best Christopher Guest films with both the scrutiny and pathos of a political satire based in the woeful, all-too-real world."
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.