Panelists:

Agnes Grandits, Editor
Agnès Grandits is a film and television editor with decades of experience in the US film industry working with legendary writers, directors and performers on award winning box office hits and groundbreaking television.

Last December, Agnès edited the pilot for "Single Drunk Female," a half-hour comedy for Freeform that was just picked up for series, based on Simone Finch’s authentic stories, executive produced by Girls’ Jenni Konner and Good Girls’ Phil Traill, with Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland directing the pilot.

As a television editor, Agnès has worked primarily on both half hour comedies and one hour dramas with credits on P. Valley and SweetBitter for STARZ, Divorce for HBO, Odd Mom Out for Bravo and The Breaks for VH1. She has worked for Showtime onThe Affair and Nurse Jackie. In addition, she edited The Jim Gaffigan Show for TV Land, Gracepoint for Fox, an episode on the final season of Bored to Death for HBO and 100 Centre Street, directed by Sydney Lumet for A&E. For HBO, she also worked on Sex and the City and The Wire.

Originally starting as a film apprentice and working her way up through assistant to editor, Agnès worked for directors such as Nora Ephron on Sleepless in Seattle (TriStar Pictures), Norman René on Prelude to a Kiss, Jerry Zucker on Ghost (Paramount), Alan Pakula on Pelican Brief (20th Century Fox), Robert Altman on Ready to Wear, Tim Robbins on Dead Man Walking and John Turturro on Romance and Cigarettes (United Artists).

Fully binational and bicultural, Agnès is a native of Lyon, France. On her frequent visits home, she lectures and gives Master Classes at La Cinéfabrique, a highly selective, innovative state-run film school that focuses on bringing inclusive, international voices into the industry.

Agnès lives in Brooklyn with her two daughters and husband, the painter Sean Grandits.

Shelby Siegel, Editor
Shelby Siegel is an Emmy award winning film and television editor that has been working in New York for over twenty years. She began her career with some of the industry’s top directors: Paul Haggis (In the Valley of Elah), Mike Nichols (Charlie Wilson’s War) and Ang Lee on his Oscar winning films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. In addition, Shelby worked on the critically acclaimed series The Wire.

After The Wire, she worked as an editor on Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans (DVD) and All Good Things, Jonathan Caouette‘s Tarnation, Gary Hustwit’s Helvetica and Urbanized. Other projects include Jared Leto’s Artifact (Supervising Editor) and Zach Heinserling’s Oscar nominated documentary Cutie & The Boxer (Consulting Editor). She won both an Emmy and ACE award for her work on the acclaimed HBO six-part series The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Most recently Shelby edited episodes of Quantico (ABC), High Maintenance (HBO) and The Deuce (HBO).

Moderator:

Claire Shanley, Post Producer
Claire Shanley is a Post Producer whose recent projects include “The Plot Against America” and “The Deuce”. Her background also includes post facility & technical management roles, among them Managing Director for Sixteen19, Technical Director for Broadway Video, and others. She Co-Chairs the Board of Directors of the NYC LGBT Center and serves on the Advisory Board of NYWIFT (NY Women in Film & Television).

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