HOME, the class project in the July/August 2004 six-week course, is premiering at the Silverdocs Film Festival in June. Directed by Jeffrey M. Togman and edited by Edit Center alum Mollie Goldstein, HOME is one of only ten films chosen for Silverdocs' 2005 Feature Competition. Alum Riva Marker was the assistant editor on the film, and alum Matthew Jacob was the online editor.
Writer/director Alice Wu's debut film, Saving Face, opened in theaters in New York this months. It was released by Song Classics and was an Official Selection of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Alice Wu attended the first ever Edit Center class.
Anytown, USA, directed by Kristian Fraga and co-edited by Edit Center alum Sandy Patch, premiered in April to awards at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Later that month at the Trenton Film Festival, it went on to win the Jury Prize for Best Director of a Documentary Feature.
Red Doors, the July/August 2004 six-week class project, won Best Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival. Directed by Georgia Lee, Red Doors was also the recipient of a Jerome Foundation New York Media Arts Grant Award. Edit Center instructor Youna Kwak was the editor on the film, which was cut at Final Frame.
Charlie's Party, the project in the July/August 2003 six-week course, is premiering at the CineVegas Film Festival in June. Charlie's Party was directed by Catherine Cahn. Edit Center alumni Anita Gabrosek and Jonathan Reinhart were the editors on the film.
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."