TEC Class Film Seaside (starring Tony nominee Ariana DeBose) will be released on August 20 by Gravitas Ventures. It’s currently available for pre-order on iTunes!
Seaside - Directed by Sam Zalutsky
“A dramatic thriller about Daphne, a young woman who moves to the Oregon Coast with her boyfriend, Roger, when he inherits his childhood beach house, only to discover that Roger hasn't been completely honest about his past.”
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Personal Statement, October/November 2015 six-week class film is nominated for an Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary Emmy!
Personal Statement - Directors Juliane Dressner, Edwin Martinez
Karoline, Enoch and Christine are Brooklyn high school seniors who just want to go to college, but like so many public school students throughout the country, their schools don't have enough college guidance support. Refusing to give up, they decide to work as college counselors in their schools, becoming the very resource they don't have themselves.
More information on their nomination can be found here.
More information on the film can be found here.
Doc Series Cutting My Mother, edited by TEC Alum Guillaume Galuz, is available to watch on Topic!
Directed by Nathan Silver
"Nathan Silver has been casting his mother, Cindy, in his independent feature films since 2012. And though Cindy always insists she’s “not an actress—I’m just your mother,” when Nathan cuts almost all her scenes from one of his movies, Cindy’s disappointment goes beyond a matter of simple creative differences. In this new documentary series, we follow Nathan and Cindy as they try to repair their relationship over the dinner table, at the synagogue, and, finally, on the set of a film where Nathan cedes the director’s chair to a promising new talent: his own mother."
Watch the doc series here.
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Congratulations to Yuki Aizawa, Beyza Boyacioglu, Janah Cox, Maria Gabriela Torres and Inés Vogelfang for being chosen to participate in the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Fellowship! TEC alum Amy Foote will also be among the eight serving as mentors in the program.
"Diversity in the Edit Room Program is designed to cultivate the careers of emerging assistant editors and editors from diverse backgrounds and experiences working in the documentary field."
More information on the program can be found here.
We're happy to announce that A.J. Edwards and Regina Sobel will be teaching our June/July 2019 Six-Week class!
A.J. Edwards is an editor, writer and director. Edward's editorial credits include Terrence Malick's "The New World", "Tree of Life", "To The Wonder", "Knight of Cups" and "Song to Song".
He has written and directed two feature films, "The Better Angels" and "Friday's Child", that have debuted domestically at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and the 2018 SXSW Film Festival respectively.
Regina Sobel is a Brooklyn-based film editor, writer, and producer. Most recently she served as editor and writer of Human Nature, a film about the biological breakthrough called CRISPR and its far-reaching implications, which premiered at SXSW in March and will appear in theaters later this year. She was also the editor and co-writer of Fail State (Starz), a feature documentary about inequality in higher education which premiered at DOC NYC in 2017. Her other credits include editor and producer on Old Dog, a verite documentary about sheep dog training in New Zealand, and associate editor on Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth (IFC Films), starring Elisabeth Moss. Before working as an editor, she produced and directed graphics for film and TV, including PBS’s Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream, Showtime’s “Years of Living Dangerously,” and HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
We're excited to announce that alumni projects are included at this year's Tribeca Festival! Congratulations to all involved!
At The Heart of Gold | Editor Cindy Lee (TEC Alum)
Directed by Erin Lee Car
“In 2016, USA Gymnastics was rocked by the revelation that national team doctor Larry Nassar had been abusing young athletes for decades. Tribeca alum Erin Lee Carr’s unflinching documentary unpacks the scandal, its coverup, and aftermath, while giving voice to the survivors.”
Halston | Editor Elia Gasull Balada
Directed by Frédéric Tcheng
“Prodigiously talented, Halston reigned over fashion in the 1970s and became a household name. But everything changed in the Wall Street era. With his empire under threat, Halston took the biggest gamble of his life.”
See You Yesterday | Editor Jennifer Lee (TEC Alum)
Directed by Stefon Bristol
“Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build make-shift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.”
The Short History of the Long Road | Editor Ron Dulin (TEC Alum) (June/July 2018 Class Film)
Directed by Ani Simon-Kennedy
“For teenage Nola, home is the open road with her self-reliant father and their trusty van, two nomads against the world. When Nola’s rootless existence is turned upside-down, she realizes that life as an outsider might not be her only choice.”
Skin | Co-Editor Michael Taylor (TEC Alum)
Directed by Guy Nattiv
“Guy Nattiv traces the true story of Bryon Widner, a white supremacist who begins a path to redemption through a romance with a single mother intent on keeping her children out of the movement.”
Whiteout | Editor Lance Edmands (TEC Alum)
Directed by Lance Edmands
“When a young couple encounters a strange old man wandering in a snowstorm, they must decide if he needs help, or if he has more sinister intentions.”
#Like - 2018 class film, edited by TEC alum Matt Yaple, will premiere at CineQuest Film Festival on March 9th.
Directed by Sara Pirozek.
”Woodstock teenager, Rosie, is mourning her younger sister Amelia's death when she discovers a mysterious man, (Marc Menchaca, Ozark), who sexploited and bullied her sister, is back on-line, trolling for new victims. When the local police refuse to investigate, Rosie finds a darker side she never knew she had, as she decides to take justice into her own hands. Her pursuit of the man leads her down a murky path raising burning questions, will she find him? And if she does... then what?, When does the victim become the perpetrator? Will justice prevail? How will Rosie come out of this intact? This noir, psychological thriller will leave you breathless, a taut observation of teen sexuality and paranoia, at the intersection of #MeToo and the un-policed borders of cyber life. #LIKE is blessed with a stellar, break-out performance by Sarah Rich, under the steely eye of Sarah Pirozek who makes her deftly chilling directorial debut.”
Tickets and information about the screenings can be found here.
TEC Alum, Marina Katz, spoke with Filmmaker Magazine, along with co-editor Brian Goetz, to discuss her experience working on the documentary feature, The Brink, which premiered at Sundance 2019. The documentary follows Steve Bannon as he tries to rebrand himself after his time at The White House.
"We created a rule with the archival: it could only be informational, not used as a surrogate for the voice of the filmmaker. This helped keep it pointed and smart. For dramatic effect, we covered radio voices with verite of our protagonist, adding a layer of him reacting to the news media about him. We passed sequences back and forth, and to our director too, always keeping the edit moving. This helped us put together the film quickly—which was necessary, given our short tight frame!”
You can read the full article here.
Find more information about the film here.
16 Bars, TEC January/February 2018 class documentary, will be screened at the Downtown Community Television Center on Monday, March 25th at 7:00pm. There will be a Q&A session with Sam Bathrick (Director), Adam Barton (Producer), and Alex Cullen (Director of Photography) following the screening. The event is part of the Winter 2019 season of DCTV Presents.
16 Bars was directed by Sam Bathrick and edited by Al Shurman, a TEC alum.
“16 Bars is a feature length music documentary that offers a rare glimpse at the human stories — and songs — that are locked away in our nation’s jails and prisons. The film follows a unique rehabilitation effort in the Richmond City Justice Center that invites inmates to write and record original music. In the jail’s makeshift recording studio, four men collaborate on an album with a Grammy-winning recording artist, Todd “Speech” Thomas, from the iconic activist hip-hop group Arrested Development. As the creative process unfurls, each is forced to face painful memories from the past, which hold a key to a new chapter in their lives.
The film is set in Richmond Virginia, where the legacy of systemic racism, a spiraling opioid crisis, generational poverty, and a lack of mental health services have entrapped many of its citizens in a cycle of incarceration, making the city itself a unique case study for rising recidivism rates in the U.S. at large. With the U.S. locking up more of its citizens per capita than any other nation on the planet, the music of the film serves as rare testimony to the raw and messy truth behind the criminal justice system’s revolving door.”
Tickets and additional information about the screening may be found here.
United Skates, a 2016 TEC Class film, will be screened at IFC Center on Tuesday, February 5th 2019, as part of the Winter 2019 season of Pure Nonfiction. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Tina Brown and subject Reggie.
Directed by Dyana Winkler & Tina Brown.
“Off the radar of mainstream American culture, the African-American roller-rink community has thrived for decades in cities across the country, fostering community, hosting performances by groundbreaking hip-hop artists including N.W.A. and Queen Latifah, and serving as the incubator for a radical blend of skating and dance that stands as its own unique art form, complete with regional variations. Despite this remarkable history, skating is in a precarious state; re-zoning policies have led to rinks closing down, and the long-standing, still-present practice of admission policies have, historically, restricted attendance to racially-coded ‘Adult Nights’ and even discouraged or barred black patrons entirely.
It’s to this present reality that directors Dyana Winkler and Tina Brown turn their cameras. The HBO Documentary Film United Skates visits black rink owners and observes skaters from Los Angeles, Chicago, North Carolina, and beyond as they travel across the United States, introduce their kids to the art, muse on its past and future, and, most importantly, skate. This electrifying work is at once a cultural history lesson, an investigation into racial politics, and a beautifully shot performance film.”
Tickets and additional information about the screening can be found here.
United Skates will premiere on HBO on Monday, February 18th at 8pm ET. The film will be available on-demand on Tuesday, February 19th.