EditFest NY Has the Right Cuts

Details: Parent Category: Expos and Conventions; Category: Previews; Published on Thursday, 20 May 2010 19:18; Written by Laura Blum

If you're looking to get into the editing business – or if you've ever doubted the power of editors to make or break a movie -- come catch EditFest at the Director's Guild of America Theater (on West 57th Street) in New York, June 11 and 12, 2010. Back in town for its second annual run, the event rallies award-winning editors for intensive How To's, shop talk and networking.

This year's bill includes the Oscar-nominated editing duo from Avatar, John Refoua and Stephen Rivkin; Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker (The Departed, The Aviator, Raging Bull); and Oscar winner Alan Heim (All That Jazz, Network), among 20 or so others.

Panelists will reincarnate some of the creative choices they faced in their editing suites, and share tricks of the trade.

The east coast edition of American Cinema Editors' popular editing festival is presented together with Manhattan Edit Workshop, which offers certified courses and customized training classes in editing. Panelists are drawn from the membership of ACE, an honorary society of motion picture editors currently notching its 60th anniversary.

EditFest NY's $349 fee ($249 for students and affiliates) may deter anyone who isn't in the business, though if you read Walter Murch's In the Blink of the Eye more than once – and then picked up Michael Ondaatje's The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Film Editing to boot -- you're probably movie nerd enough to consider it. Otherwise, the targeted audience of content cognoscenti ranges from production executives and network and studio staff to aspiring and professional editors.

In addition to moderated panels, EditFest NY will feature an opening night reception, Q&A sessions and a closing pizza and beer bash.

Below is the full lineup and schedule:

Friday June 11, 2010:

7:15pm - 9:00pm, Opening Night Panel: The Lean Forward Moment
9:00pm - 11:00pm, Cocktail Party

Saturday June 12, 2010:

10:00am - 11:45am, The Documentary Edit: Finding the Thread
12:00pm - 1:00pm, Anatomy of a Scene With Alan Heim
2:15pm - 3:30pm, Cutting Yourself Out of a Corner
3:45pm - 5:15pm, : The Big Picture
5:15pm - 8:00pm, Pizza And Beer

Confirmed panelists (in addition to those mentioned above) to date:

Michael Berenbaum, ACE (Sex and the City I & II) Emmy® Winner
Geoff Bartz, ACE (Pumping Iron, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth) Emmy® Winner
Milton Ginsberg, ACE (Fidel, Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back)
Norman Hollyn, (Heathers, Author of The Film Editing Handbook)
Joe Klotz, ACE (Precious, Junebug) Oscar® Nominated
Mark Livolsi, ACE (The Blind Side, Wedding Crashers, The Devil Wears Prada)
Andrew Mondshein, ACE (Remember Me, Chocolat, The Sixth Sense) Oscar® Nominated
Susan Morse, ACE (Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters) Oscar® Nominated
Sabrina Plisco, ACE (Charlotte’s Web, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Geoffrey Richman, ACE (The Cove, Sicko)
Randy Roberts, ACE (Law & Order, SVU) Emmy® Nominated
Jean Tsien (The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World, Shut Up & Sing)
Andrew Weisblum (Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Wrestler)
Jeffrey Wolf, ACE (First Sunday, Billy Madison)

For more info go to: www.editfestny.com and www.mewshop.com.

EditFest NY
June 11 - 12, 2010
the Director's Guild of America Theater
110 West 57th Street
New York, NY
212-414-9570