FXF007: Sidney Lumet's NETWORK- Alan Heim, Mark Laub, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf.

 

In 1976, an American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, called Network, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch,  Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including best film, best director and best editor. Network, won four Academy Awards, including Oscars for Chayefsky’s script, Beatrice  Straights’ performance as an outraged wife, Faye Dunaway’s performance as a cynical programming executive and Peter Finch’s frenetic portrayal of Howard Beale, the troubled “mad prophet of the airwaves.”

 

 Thirty-five years later, “Network” remains an incendiary if influential film, and its screenplay is still admired as much for its predictive accuracy as for its vehemence and a relentless sense of purpose. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of “The Social Network,” and wrote later that “no predictor of the future — not even Orwell — has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ‘Network.’ ”

 Alan Heim, the picture editor of the film, Mark Laub, one from a team of sound editors, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf, the first assistant editor and the apprentice editor on the film at the time, tell their stories of how the film came together and what it was like in various stages working with director Sidney Lumet, writer Paddy Chayefsky and Producer Howard Gottfried.

 

Frame By Frame, Episode 005: Angelo Corrao and Alex Halpern

Post Factory Founder, Alex Halpern and picture editor Angelo Corrao talk about their collaboration on Nine Good Teeth  as well as Angelo’s work on Bruce Weber’s Let’s Get Lost and their experiences coming up in the 1980's New York film scene and developing early relationships with filmmakers like The Coen Brothers.

 

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

 

Frame by Frame 002- Vinyl & Boardwalk Empire- Kate Sanford and Tim Streeto

Television and feature film editors Kate Sanford (The Wire, The Deuce) and Tim Streeto (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) describe their process in developing the hit series Boardwalk Empire with Martin Scorsese, Tim Van Patten and Terry Winter as well as how they worked together  with Martin Scorsese, Terry Winter and Mick Jagger to create Season 1 of Vinyl.

Frame By Frame is a podcast series that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories with the people that continue to define New York as an essential capital of the global film industry.

Hosted by Isabel Sadurni.                         

Produced by Isabel Sadurni and Ben Baker.      

 

NYWIFT & the Post New York Alliance podcast are proud to present:

 

Making the Cut: Editors Talk Collaborations and Career

Editing is such a fluid experience. You never know what you will need for the story or what the working relationship with the director is going to be like. Each situation is different. 

Forging a career as an editor can be just as varied. Before digital technology and software became as accessible as they are today, you came up the ranks from apprentice, assistant, to one day becoming an editor. Now you could take on a low-budget film, working as your own assistant and editor, or perhaps collaborate with an established editor and come on as a co-editor. Always, the major skill is storytelling & building relationships. It’s about living your life and understanding that the material for editorial decisions can come from anywhere, and everything you experience. 

Join this panel of talented women editors/filmmakers as they share their journey to the edit chair, and explore the collaborations they’ve built along the way. 


Panelists

R. A. Fedde is an editor and producer, whose film and television work has covered a wide range, from two past presidents to paparazzi on the run. Her editing credits include 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America: Antietam, winner of a 2006 Emmy Award for Best Non-Fiction Series; $ellebrity, which premiered at South by Southwest in 2012; Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde, which Fedde edited and co-produced, premiered at Slamdance 2013; The Last One, won the Best Social Issues Documentary Award at the 2014 Atlanta Docufest and aired on Showtime in December 2014; and Once and for All, which closed the DocNYC 2015 with a sold-out house. Her editing on Frontlne's Growing Up Online garnered another nomination for a 2009 Emmy. In 2004, Fedde won the prestigious Gracie Allen Award for her work as editor on Pure Magic: The Mother Daughter Bond. Currently she is working on a feature-length PBS project on WWI and a short documentary project of her own about Hindu god lithographs.

Carla Gutierrez is an editor based in New York City. She edited the Oscar nominated film La Carona for HBO and the Emmy-nominated documentary Reportero, which was broadcast on POV. She also edited Kingdom of Shadows that premiered at SXSW and opened theatrically in Mexico. Her latest work, When Two Worlds Collide will have its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival as part of the world documentary competition. Gutierrez’s other editing credits include: Wonder Women!, Las Marthas, Tales of the Waria, She Is The Matador, Surviving Hitler: A Love Story, and Iraq For Sale. She has been a creative adviser for the Sundance Edit Lab, and a mentor for Firelight Producers’ Lab.

Geeta Gandbhir's honors include an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards. Most recently, a feature documentary she produced with Perri Peltz and directed with Academy Award winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, A Journey of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. She is currently co-directing and co-producing a Conversation series on race with The New York Times Op-Docs. She co-directed and edited the film Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro Sr. with Perri Peltz for HBO. Additional notable works as an editor include, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You, When the Levees Broke … A Requiem in Four Acts, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Music by Prudence, Budrus, If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, and God is the Bigger Elvis.

Sheila Shirazi's feature editor credits include the forthcoming Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, which will premiere on HBO later this year, and Shola Lynch's Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. She has been an assistant editor for the Academy Award-winning Inside Job, the groundbreaking PBS series, Women, War & Peace, and the Sundance Documentary Edit Lab. She produced and wrote the film Arusi Persian Wedding, which won an ITVS Open Call finishing grant and was broadcast on PBS' Independent Lensseries. Shirazi also enjoys the creative (and financial rewards) of editing short-form content for ad agencies, NGO's and corporate clients. 

Cheree Dillon (Moderator) is an independent film/tv editor based in New York City. Most recently she co-edited Death by Design, a feature documentary collaboration from Ambrica Productions and Impact Partners. Her first feature doc, Off and Running, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was broadcast on PBS’s P.O.V. series, and nominated for an Emmy. Cheree’s other feature doc credits include the broadcast version of The Homestretch for PBS’s Independent Lens 2015 series, Sense The Wind, Sons of Ben, Surviving Amina, and Song of Hannah, along with cutting long format programs for Discovery, NBC Sports, and The Science Channel. She has also edited several award-winning short docs including Southmost USA, An Imaginary Thing, and Article of Faith. Dillon is a member of the NYWIFT documentary committee and has produced several panels focused on interactive filmmaking, independent film distribution and social media/marketing.

 

  

 

 

Produced by Cheree Dillon

 Hosted by 

 

 

Transitioning from Docs to Drama

Join us for a podcast with host Isabel Sadurni and New York’s top Editors, about how they consistently and successfully bridge the worlds of non-fictional to scripted editorial. Followed by Q&A.

PANELISTS:

ALLYSON C. JOHNSON

(The Namesake, Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding )

SAM POLLARD

(If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise, 4 Little Girls, Clockers)

TIM SQUYRES

(Life of Pi, The Armstrong Lie, Syriana)

CRAIG McKAY

(Sin Nombre,Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia)

ALAN OXMAN

(Control Room, Happiness, Welcome To The Dollhouse )

 

Many established narrative editors have turned their hand todocumentaries, while others have worked in the opposite direction working as documentarians who crossover intonarrative territory. Whether working within fictional or non-fictional worlds -- we as visual storytellers are instinctively drawn to elements common to both genres, yet thefilmmaking communities often exist separately. What are the strengths, strategies and strokes of luckrequired to bridge the two worlds successfully?

BIOS

ALLYSON C. JOHNSON’sFeature Film work includes: Mira Nair’sAmelia,The Namesake, Vanity Fairand MonsoonWedding which received the Golden Lion for Best Film at the2001 Venice Film. Her television work includes NBC’sS mashand The Slap, The Wire, Quanticoand Marco PoloforNetflix. She is presently editing Baz Luhrmann’s series TheGet Down for Netflix. Johnson received an Emmy Nominationediting the documentaryT he Who’s Tommy: The AmazingJourney. Other rockumentaries include Up From theUnderground (Quincy Jones),S ay It Loud(VH-1) and herTriptych short film Kick Out the Jamsappeared at the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. She hasalso collaborated with such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Griffin Dunne and Bill Moyers.

SAM POLLARDis an Emmy and Peabody Award winning feature film and television video editor, and documentaryproducer/director whose work spans almost thirty years. He recently completed as Producer/Director a 90-minutedocumentary titled August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Standfor the PBS series American Masters. His first assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989 forHenry Hampton's Blackside production Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroadsfor which he received a Peabody Award. Between 1990 and 2010, Mr. Pollard editeda number of Spike Lee's films: Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, and Bamboozledand co-produced a number of documentary productions for Spike Lee PresentsM ike Tyson, Four Little Girls, When The Levees Broke.

TIM SQUYRESh as edited several films fordirector Ang Lee; Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet ,EatDrinkManWoman, Sense a nd Sensibility,T he Ice Storm,Ri de with the Devil, The Hulk, andCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The latter earned Mr. Squyres Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Hong Kong Film Award, and [American Cinema Editors (ACE)] Eddie Award nominations, as well as the Golden Horse Award (Taiwan's equivalent of the Oscar).He was an Eddie Award nominee for his workonRobertAltman'sAcademyAward-winning, GosfordPark ,whichalsoearnedMr.Squyresan American Film Institute (AFI) Award nomination.His other feature credits as editor include Stephen Gaghan's S yriana , starring Academy Award winner George Clooney; Paul Auster's L ulu on the Bridge and TheInnerLifeofMartinFrost; andGeorgeButler'sdocumentary G oingUpriver:TheLongWarof John Kerry . He has also edited television documentaries for Bill Moyers W hat Can We Do About Violence? a nd A ddiction: Close to Home ) fo r Michael Moore, ESPN, and VH1 .

CRAIG McKAY i s an award-winning feature film editor, story consultant, director, and executive producer. Directing credits include Emmy-Award-winning Bubbe Meises,Bubbe Stories for PBS and HBO’ s T he Red Shoes written by Jo hn Guare. Documentary credits include Br avo’s H aiti: Dreams of Democracy, A cadem y - Award - nominated M andela , and PBS’s a ward - winning W itness: Voices from the  Holocaust. Awards in editing include an Emmy for the NBC mini-series Holocaust , as well as two Academy Award nominations for R eds and T he Silence of the Lambs. Other editing highlights include Copland, Philadelphia, Married to the Mob, Something Wild, Melvin and Howard and many others. McKay was also an Executive Producer on the award-winning feature-length documentary A Normal Life.

ALAN OXMAN is a film editor and producer who has worked on a variety of narrative and documentary films. As a producer Alan's recent credits include A Matter of Taste which screened on HBO and was nominated for an Emmy Award and P age One: Inside the New York Times which was distributed by Magnolia Films and was also nominated for an Emmy Award. He was a producer on Edet Belzberg’s T he Recruiter , which won the Peabody Awar d, as well as on C hildren Underground which won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Alan recently served as post-production supervisor on Inside Job (Academy Award for Best Documentary,2011)andproduceron H otCoffee (Sundance2011,HBOSummerDocSeries).Hewas the co- producer and supervising editor of the Al-Jazeera documentary C ontrol Room (Grand Jury Prize, Full Frame Film Festival). His editing credits include W elcome to the Dollhouse (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival), H appiness ( International Critic’s Award, Cannes Film Festival) and Storytelling (Cannes Film Festival), all for director Todd Solondz. He was a consulting editor on the Oscar- nominated N oEndinSight, which also won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.Alan co-edited   U nzipped (Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival), which won the A.C.E. Award for Best Documentary Editing. He won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Documentary Editing on the PBS series C ity Life . 

 

TURNOVER TO PICTURE 

TECHNICOLOR POSTWORKS NEW YORK

110 LEROY STREET 

NEW YORK, NY 10014
THEATRE

OCTOBER 14, 2014 @ 7PM

 

Following the success our recent Turnover To Sound event, PNYA is holding the second in the series, this time covering picture turnover on October 14, at PostWorks New York.

 

 

The workshop will cover picture turnover from editorial to a picture finishing/ DI department. Seating in the theatre for this event again is limited, so please RSVP to seminars@postnewyork.org to avoid disappointment. Seats will be allocated on a first-come basis.

Speakers this evening are:

Ian Blume has worked in feature film postproduction for 15 years, spanning such films as CHOCOLAT, DOUBT and THE BOURNE LEGACY.

A graduate of Emerson College (Film Studies, 99), he started out in NYC by building a strong foundation at Sound One. There he established close ties in the industry, and quickly became part of a tightly knit family.

Ian has climbed the ranks as an assistant editor, working on 14 features of all budget levels, in the US and abroad. He has collaborated with many top-tier, award-winning editors, directors, writers and producers, and accumulated valuable experience, technique and guidance from all of them.

Ian is currently working as editor on his 2nd narrative feature film, DRAWING HOME.

Matthew Schneider leads the research and workflow development effort at Technicolor - PostWorks through the Test Lab. He assists clients in workflow design and implementation, and other issues related to digital camera systems and formats. He also serves as liaison to Avid and other technology manufacturers to assist in product development and customer support.

Prior to joining Technicolor - PostWorks New York in 2003, Schneider worked as a support engineer for Avid Technology, where he assisted with large-scale broadcast network deployments, and workflow design for feature film and television clients. He is an active member of SMPTE New York and the Sony Cine-Alta User Group.

Ben Baker has been across a broad range of US and UK studio and independent films as an executive producer, post supervisor, project consultant, workflow designer and manager, in areas as diverse as on location dailies and editorial for digital cinematography, high-end digital intermediate mastering, feature film restoration and digital asset management over the life-cycle of entire project, from development to distribution. He lived in the UK for 10 years and ran the Digital Lab at Framestore during that time. He now resides in New York.

The workshop is free for members- non members can sign up on the night!