Artists in Residence
The Artist-in-Residence Program is a core component of Manhattan Edit Workshop's Six Week Art of Editing Course. Top film editors join the class to screen and discuss their work, while students share their edits for comments and critique.
Our Resident Artists include some of the best in the business: Alan Heim (All That Jazz*, Network*), David Salter (Finding Nemo*, Toy Story 2), Andrew Mondshein (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Sixth Sense), John Gilroy (Michael Clayton*, Tumbleweeds), Stephen Rotter (The Right Stuff*, Enchanted, The World According to Garp), Curtiss Clayton (My Own Private Idaho, The Assasination of Jesse James), Carol Littleton (E.T.*, Grand Canyon), Christopher Tellefsen (Capote*, The People vs. Larry Flint), Lee Percy (Reversal of Fortune*, Boys Don't Cry*), Tom Haneke (American Dream*, He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'*), Keith Reamer (I Shot Andy Warhol, Suffering Man's Charity), Meg Reticker (30 Rock, The Wire, Big Love), Jean Tsien (Travis, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, Shut Up & Sing), Michael Berenbaum (Before Night Falls, Sex and The City), Bill Pankow (Drumline, The Untouchables*) Larry Silk (Marjoe*, Wildman Blues), Kate Sanford (The Wire, Sex and The City), Bobbie O'Steen (Tess, "The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic") and Norman Hollyn (Heathers, "The Film Editing Room Handbook").
*Academy Award winner
Click a name below for a full Artist in Residence bio.
Bobbie O'Steen
Bobbie O’Steen is a New York-based writer who has been immersed in the world of film editing all her life. She first developed a love for movies watching her father, film editor Richard C. Meyer (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). After earning a degree in anthropology at Stanford University, she went on to work as a story editor and film editor (Straight Time, Tess). Following an Emmy® nomination in editing for the television movie Best Little Girl in the World, she began to write about the invisible art.
Bobbie first wrote about film with her late husband and colleague, Sam O’Steen, the legendary Oscar-nominated film editor in "Cut To The Chase: 45 Years of Editing America's Favorite Movies" (2002), filled with candid stories from the cutting room and behind the scenes on some of the most influential movies in motion picture history. Sam O’Steen was one of Hollywood's most distinguished film editors who worked with directors Mike Nichols, Roman Polanski and many others during what is now referred to as the “Golden Age.”
In her latest book published in 2009, "The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic", Bobbie uses frame grabs factual cuts from classic movie scenes (Body Heat, Twelve Angry Men, Rear Window and The French Connection) to get deep inside the mind of the film editor and explain how the mysterious art is actually done.
Mewshop Artist in Residence Bobbie O'Steen from Manhattan Edit Workshop on Vimeo.
To see Bobbie's blog go to www.bobbieosteen.com.