Manhattan Edit Workshop was proud to have Stephen Rotter as Artist in Residence for its latest Six Week Course.
Opening the Editing Vault
MEWShop is Jazzed about Editor Alan Heim
Thursday With Carol
On a wintry Thursday evening in late February, Carol Littleton, ACE spoke to a crowd of more than 50 filmmakers at the New York Editors Guild office. In her presentation, the then Artist-in-Residence at the Manhattan Edit Workshop--who is a former President of the Guild and currently the organization's Vice President--described techniques of creating character and thematic introductions in her films.
Carol Littleton: MEWShop’s First Artist in Residence for 2007
Whether you know Carol Littleton’s work from films like Steven Spielberg’s E.T., Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill, or Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate, chances are you know her work. Manhattan Edit Workshop’s Six Week Intensive Art of Editing Course is honored to have her as the first Artist in residence of 2007.
He'll Take Manhattan - Editor Michael Berenbaum, ACE
As the editor of Focus Features' fall release Hollywoodland, Michael Berenbaum can empathize with the plight of the film's real-life character, George Reeves and perils of being typecast. Television's first Superman, Reeves (played by Ben Affleck) slowly deteriorates throughout the film's flashbacks as his dreams of becoming a serious actor are crushed by the very public weight of his red cape.
He'll Take Manhattan - Our Fall 2006 Artist in Residence
Editor in Residence
Every moviemaker knows that a film never truly takes shape until it makes way to the editing room. A great editor is a much a necessity for a successful film as as a talented writer or director. If it seems like well-known directors work with same editors over the course of their movies career that's because, well, they do!