We're happy to see that five TEC alumni and teacher projects were included in the DOC NYC lineup this year!
Amanda Knox | Edited by TEC alum Matt Hamachek
Chasing the Win | Directed by TEC alum Laura Sheehy
Circus Kid | Edited by TEC alum Sarah Devorkin
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness | Edited by TEC alum Jeanne Applegate
O.J.: Made in America | Edited by TEC teacher Bret Granato
Amanda Knox, written and edited by TEC alum Matthew Hamachek, was released on Netflix last month and is to be featured at Doc NYC this year.
The New York Times has said, "The directors have produced a tightly edited, coherently structured and ultimately moving reassessment that burrows beneath the lurid in search of the illuminating."
You can read the full review here.
Showtimes and screening information can be found here.
We're happy to announce that several TEC alum and TEC teacher films have been included in the Gotham Awards nominations this year:
Paterson | Edited by TEC teacher Affonso Gonçalves
Nominated for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Adam Driver)
O.J.: Made in America | Edited by TEC teacher Bret Granato
Nominated for Best Documentary
The Witch | Edited by TEC alum Louise Ford
Nominated for Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award, Breakthrough Actor (Anya Taylor-Joy)
Love & Friendship | Edited by TEC alum Sophie Corra
Nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Kate Beckinsale)
We're happy to see that three alumni projects were included in the Margaret Mead Film Festival lineup this year!
Farewell Ferris Wheel | Edited by alum Eugene Yi
Ladies First: Saudi Arabia’s Female Candidates | Edited by alum Adam Bolt
Salero | Edited by teacher Andrew Blackwell
We are very excited to announce that Geoffrey Richman will be teaching the narrative section of our October/November 2016 Six-Week class!
Geoffrey Richman, A.C.E. is the editor of Murderball, Sicko, and The Cove - the 2006, 2008, and 2010 Academy Award nominees for Best Feature Documentary, and Time Freak - the 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Live-Action Short Film. The Cove went on to win the Academy Award, after becoming the first documentary ever to win all four guild awards (Producing, Directing, Writing, and Editing). At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Geoff was awarded the first-ever Special Jury Prize for Editing for his work on Murderball. The following year he returned to Sundance with a film he edited, God Grew Tired of Us, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Other documentary credits include 21 Up America, The Order of Myths, The Great Invisible, The Supreme Price, and Racing Extinction, Louie Psihoyos's follow-up to The Cove; Other narrative credits include Peter and Vandy, The Virginity Hit, Wainy Days, Tony Kaye’s Detachment, Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me, and Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups. His most recent projects include the documentary Eating Animals, based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer, and the Mike Birbiglia film Don’t Think Twice.
We're happy to see that three alumni projects have been included in the NY Film Festival lineup this year!
Bright Lights | Edited by TEC Alum Shiela Shirazi
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea | Edited by TEC Alum Lance Edmands
Gimme Danger | Edited by TEC Alum Adam Kurnitz
My Art, edited by TEC alum and teacher Betsy Kagen, premiered earlier this month at the Venice Film Festival. My Art was written and directed by Laurie Simmons, who also stars in the film with Lena Dunham, Robert Clohessy, John Rothman, Josh Safdie, Parker Posey, Blair Brown, and Barbara Sukowa. E. Nina Rothe of the Huffington Post describes the film as "beautiful, funny, charming and wonderful." Read the full article here.
Love & Friendship, edited by TEC alum Sophie Corra, is listed as one of the 7 indie films you need to know about in The New York Times.
Read the full article here.
Don't Breathe, edited by TEC alum Louise Ford, topped the Box Office this past weekend! The New York Times highlights how the film's appeal has spread "beyond the core horror crowd."
You can read the full NYT article here.
Netflix recently acquired Keepers of the Game, a documentary about an all-Native girls Lacrosse team and their goal to be the first Native women’s team to bring home a Section Championship. TEC alums Chris Iverson and David Lieberman served as editors and Drew Kilgore as on-line editor on the film. It begins streaming on Netflix September 1st.