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Independent Spirit Awards

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The 2015 Film Independent Spirit Award nominees were announced with multiple Edit Center connections.

Love is Strange is nominated for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Male Lead, Best Supporting Male. It was edited by TEC teacher Affonso Gonçalves and alum Michael Taylor.

Only Lovers Left Alive, directed by Jim Jarmusch, is nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Female Lead. It was edited by TEC teacher Affonso Gonçalves.

Appropriate Behavior, directed by Desiree Akhavan, is nominated for Best First Screenplay. It was a July 2013 six-week class project.

Citizenfour is up for Best Documentary. TEC alum Christina Burchard served as additional editor.

Stray Dog, directed by Debra Granik (Winter's Bone), is nominated for Best Documentary. It was edited by TEC alum Victoria Stewart and was a six-week class project.

 

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Alumni film in theaters and on iTunes

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Death Metal Angola, edited by TEC teacher and alum Todd Holmes, opens at NYC's Cinema Village today.

International Award winning Death Metal Angola follows a loving Angolan couple, Sonia and Wilker, whose love for death metal music is bringing hope to the town and children of Huambo and Angola as a country. The devastating reality of Angola’s history of wars and civil unrest has left the country’s people torn, broken, and starving for something to give them peace. Sonia and Wilker’s dream to put on the first national rock festival ignites the emotions of the Angolan people, and helps them heal from the war-stricken path Angola has left behind.

It's also available on iTunes.

IN THEATERS and Pre-Order on iTunes 11/7 On iTunes 11/21 International Award winning Death Metal Angola follows a loving Angolan couple, Sonia and Wilker, whose love for death metal music is bringing hope to the town and children of Huambo and Angola as a country.

 
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TEC at the Gotham Awards

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The nominees for this year's Gotham Independent Film Awards were just announced, and Edit Center alumni made a good showing.

Alum Michael Taylor edited Love is Strange (along with TEC instructor Affonso Gonçalves), which was nominated in the Best Feature category.

Alum Matt Hamachek was an additional editor on Point and Shoot and alum Christina Burchard was an additional editor on Citizenfour, both nominated for Best Documentary.

And actor Bill Hader received a Best Actor nomination for his performance in The Skeleton Twins, which was edited and produced by alum Jenny Lee.

You can see the full list of nominees here.

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Class Film is a New York Times critics' pick

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Listen Up Philip, a narrative project in the October 2013 six-week class, opens in theaters this week… and it just got a glowing review from New York Times critic Manohla Dargis!

“Listen Up Philip” is itself exhilarating because, for all its brutal comedy, it’s a serious work about the struggle to follow your muse and be fully alive in a world shared with other people… Nothing speaks better to this than the astonishing coda to a late, bitter fight in which Mr. Perry and Ms. Moss together create — with a lingering close-up and eddies of triumph, despair, elation and regret — a masterwork about what it is to live for love and not just the self.

The film, directed by Alex Ross Perry and starring Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss, was also featured in another recent New York Times article about Philip Roth's influence on filmmakers. Read more here.

Opening in select theaters October 17 Available on iTunes and On Demand October 21 A complex, intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, Listen Up Philip is a literary look at the triumph of reality over the human spirit. Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel.

 
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TEC at NYFF

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The New York Film Festival starts this week and two Edit Center class projects are showing!

Listen Up Philip, directed by Alex Ross Perry and starring Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss, was the narrative project in the November 2013 six-week class. Alum Betsy Kagen was the film's associate editor.

And Stray Dog, a documentary directed by Debra Granik (Winter's Bone), was a project in the September 2012 class. It was edited and co-produced by alum Victoria Stewart.

Two Alumni Films Open in Theaters This Week!

It's a big week for alums Jenny Lee and Stephanie Ahn. Jenny edited and produced The Skeleton Twins, starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader. And Stephanie edited My Old Lady, starring Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith, and Kristin Scott Thomas. Both films open this week.

http://SkeletonTwinsMovie.com http://facebook.com/TheSkeletonTwins In Theaters September 12, 2014

Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Subscribe to INDIE TRAILERS: http://goo.gl/iPUuo Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt My Old Lady Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith Movie HD A down-and-out New Yorker inherits an apartment in Paris from his estranged father and is stunned to find a refined old lady living there with her protective daughter.

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Class Film Getting Great Reviews

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The Punk Singer, one of the projects in the May/June 2011 class, has been getting lots of raves. It has an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes right now and today it got another great review in The Guardian. The documentary follows punk legend Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. It was edited by TEC Alum Bo Mehrad (Nov/Dec 2007). The official website is here.

Class Film Wins Peabody Award

Best Kept Secret, one of the projects in our November/December 2011 class, won a prestigious Peabody Award. The documentary was directed by TEC Alum Samantha Buck (July/August 2009) and follows a New Jersey special needs teacher as she prepares her students with autism for graduation. The film premiered on PBS's POV series last fall. You can watch it online here until June 25.