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.

Larry Silk

Lawrence Silk, A.C.E., has been editing since the1960s and loved documentaries since he was a kid. Most films he did were made for television until recent years. Three films that he edited have won Academy Awards: American Dream, One Survivor Remembers, and Marjoe. Larry also edited Pumping Iron and Woody Allen's Wild Man Blues. He has been teaching at NYU undergraduate film school for the last eight years.


EditFest NY 2009 Documentary Panel from Manhattan Edit Workshop on Vimeo.

EditFest NY - Straight Cuts - Larry Silk from Manhattan Edit Workshop on Vimeo.