TEC Recognized as Valuable Alternative to College

In an article on cnbc.com, The Edit Center is mentioned among several other technical schools that are becoming increasingly popular alternatives to traditional college or university degree programs. TEC Alum Dylan Greiss was interviewed for the article: 

"Dylan . . . went to college to focus on film editing, but was disappointed in the coursework. "I wasn't learning the technical details so I looked around at other programs and I found the Edit Center in Brooklyn," he said.

He left college and completed a six-week certificate program. . . . Shortly after graduation, Greiss started working as an assistant editor on feature films. Now he is employed at HBO earning $1,250 a week."

Read the full cnbc.com article here. 

From Nowhere Wins Audience Award at SXSW!

TEC alumni film From Nowhere took home an Audience Award in the Narrative Spotlight section at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival! From Nowhere was edited by TEC teacher & alum Betsy Kagen, with TEC alum Theresa McDermott serving as assistant editor. Variety praises the film, "a compelling indie drama about the day-to-day lives and anxieties of three undocumented high-school students." You can read the full Variety review here. 

TEC Alumni film "The Birth of Saké" Now Playing at IFC Center

The documentary The Birth of Saké, edited by TEC alum Takeshi Fukunaga, is now playing at the IFC Center. The Birth of Saké won Special Jury Mention and Best New Documentary Director prizes at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. For showtimes and more information, click here. 

Announcing our Six-Week Class Teachers for March

We are very excited to announce that Kate Sanford will be teaching the narrative section and Adam Bolt will be teaching the documentary section of our March/April 2016 Six-Week Art of Editing class!

Kate Sanford is an award-winning feature film and television editor with over 20 years of experience. She’s won two American Cinema Editors awards for her work on "The Wire" and "Treme". She also edited HBO’s Golden Globe-winning series "Boardwalk Empire". Her feature film credits include Outside Providence, O, and Brooklyn Rules. Kate just finished editing the first season of Martin Scorsese’s critically acclaimed series "Vinyl".

Adam Bolt edited and co-wrote the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, for which he received the Writer's Guild Award for Best Documentary Screenplay and was nominated for an American Cinema Editors award for Best Edited Documentary in 2011. He won an Emmy in 2014 for his work on the Showtime documentary series "Years of Living Dangerously", where he served as editor, writer, and senior producer. His other credits include director Alex Gibney’s Park Avenue: Money, Power & The American Dream, which premiered on PBS's Independent Lens and went on to win a Peabody Award in 2013; Page One: Inside the New York Times, which was nominated for two Emmys (including Best Editing) in 2012; and the HBO documentary The Recruiter, which won a Columbia duPont award for excellence in broadcast journalism in 2010.

Click here to register. You can find out more about our six-week class here. 

TEC Alum Film Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

Tickling Giants, edited by TEC alum Tyler Walk, will have its world premiere in the World Documentary Competition program at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival:

Tickling Giants, directed and written by Sara Taksler. (USA) – World Premiere. Charting Bassem Youssef's rise as Egypt's foremost on-screen satirist, Tickling Giants offers a rousing celebration of free speech and a showcase for the power of satire to speak for the people against a repressive government. Where this story differs from the familiar success of Youssef's idol, Jon Stewart: Bassem's jokes come with serious, dangerous, and at times revolutionary consequences. In Arabic, English with subtitles.

TEC Class Film to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival

Women Who Kill, January/February 2016 six-week class film, edited by TEC teacher Ron Dulin, has been selected for the US Narrative Competition at this year's Tribeca Film Festival!

Women Who Kill, directed and written by Ingrid Jungermann. (USA) – World Premiere. Morgan and Jean work well together as true crime podcasters because they didn't work well, at all, as a couple. When Morgan strikes up a new relationship with the mysterious Simone, their shared interest turns into suspicion, paranoia, and fear. Ingrid Jungermann's whip smart feature debut is an adept and wry comedy on modern romance’s hollow results, set in an LGBTQ Brooklyn. With Ingrid Jungermann, Ann Carr, Sheila Vand, Shannon O'Neill, Annette O'Toole, Grace Rex. A 2015 Tribeca All Access grantee.

See the festival's full competition program lineup here. 

TEC Alumni film "Spotlight" Big Winner at the Oscars!

Spotlight, assistant editing by TEC alum Andy Pang, won Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards last night! The film, nominated for 6 awards in total, also took home the prize for Best Original Screenplay. 

TEC Alum Film MAVIS! on HBO

MAVIS!, edited by TEC alum and teacher Amy Foote, produced by TEC alum Rachel Mills, with associate editing by TEC alum Maya Tippett, has its broadcast premiere tonight (February 29, 2016) at 9pm on HBO. Read more about MAVIS! here. 

Magnolia Pictures acquires TEC Alum Film Little Men

Magnolia Pictures will be releasing Little Men in theaters later this year. It was edited by TEC alum Mollie Goldstein and TEC teacher Affonso Gonçalves; alums Brian Young and Katrina Pastore served as assistant editors. It stars Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, and Paulina Garcia and recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. 

Class Film Five Nights in Maine to be distributed by FilmRise

We're thrilled to see that distribution right to our January 2015 class film Five Nights in Maine have been picked up by FilmRise! The film, starring David Oyelowo and Diane Wiest, should see a theatrical release in select cities by the end of this summer.