Class projects

TEC Alums Hot in Toronto

Hot Docs 2015

Missing People, a July/August 2013 and September/October 2013 class project, premiered at this year's Hot Docs Film Festival to strong reviews. The Hollywood Reporter praised the work of a trio of TEC alums. Way to go guys!

Editors Becky Laks and Adam Kurnitz deftly weave together the various time frames and locations with a feel for the emotional undercurrent, and music supervisor Adam Oelsner's judiciously used samples complement the strong camerawork.

Read what others had to say here and here.

Class film STAY THEN GO now available on iTunes

Stay Then Go, the narrative project in the January/February 2013 six-week class, is being distributed through the Sundance Institute's #ArtistServices program! The film stars Janel Moloney ("The West Wing"). You can find it on iTunes here.

Coming Soon! STAY THEN GO is an emotional mystery that examines the limits of love and sacrifice. In a hospital waiting room, an uneasy mother reviews her experience raising her son who has autism. This reflection leads her to a startling discovery, which alters their course forever.

 

Theatrical Release of Class Film Bluebird!

Bluebird is being released at Cinema Village in NYC this Friday, February 27th! Check out the bottom of Bluebird's website to see a list of screenings in other cities around the country. 

Beginning Friday, you'll also be able to find Bluebird on VHX, iTunes, Amazon, Vimeo, and Google Play.

The film was a May 2012 six-week class project and TEC alum Betsy Kagen served as associate editor.

 

Class Films at the Berlinale!

Two class films were part of the line up at the Berlin International Film Festival this year!

  • Petting Zoo was a project in the November 2012 six-week class
  • Queen of Earth was a project in the October 2014 six-week class. It was directed by Alex Ross Perry and TEC alums Dylan Greiss and Regina Sobel served as associate editors. TEC alums Anthony Mascorro and Brian Young served as assistant editors.
 

South By Southwest… By TEC

The lineup for the 2015 SXSW Film Festival was just announced and it includes three films with strong Edit Center connections: 

  • Petting Zoo was a project in the November 2012 six-week class. 
  • Mavis! was edited by alum Amy Foote and produced by alum Rachel Mills.
  • Adult Beginners was edited by TEC teacher Paul Frank. Alum Dylan Greiss was the assistant editor and and alum Diane Nicole Pangelinan was a post-production intern.

Congratulations everyone!

 

Independent Spirit Awards

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.

 

Class Film is a New York Times critics' pick

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.