1.21.12...Two exciting premieres this month A very quick update to say that the last doc I edited, The D-Word: Understanding Dyslexia, is currently premiering at Sundance, and will be playing on HBO in the fall. But eclipsing these fun developments is the birth of our beautiful son, Lincoln Boekelheide on January 14th. Needless to say we are as overjoyed as we are sleep-deprived. He finally arrived a couple weeks past due. As a director friend said, “I was on pins and needles wondering when he’d come out, but as long as he beat the Sundance deadline then I suppose everything is fine. Just like an indie filmmaker.” Indeed. 4.11.11...Something Ventured hits the festival circuit, gets loads of press Last month Something Ventured premiered at the uniquely wonderful SXSW festival. As was the case during our trip to Austin two years ago, a margarita-soaked time was had by all and we saw many great films. There was a lot of nice buzz about the film as the directors and exec producers were booked on a seemingly endless series of interviews. The NY Times wrote a particularly nice piece, and we got a great Variety review that included the lovely compliment: “smartly edited.” Next up, San Francisco International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and Mendocino Film Festival. In the last few months, I’ve been keeping busy on freelance projects for Goodby Silverstein, Venables Bell, Butler Shine Stern, Remedy Editorial, Hotbed Media, Casa Madre Films and Studio B Films. I was also invited to speak to two different high school film classes about what it’s like being an editor and how I’m, you know, living the dream! 11.28.10...A long-awaited update Oy...has it really been over a year with no updates to this page? I plead an intense work schedule, many deadlines, and another long-awaited thing: a six week trip through Europe that Todd and I took this fall. This was our honeymoon, a mere two years after the wedding! In late September, I wrapped up work on Something Ventured, the film I started editing last summer with wonderful director team Dan Geller and Dayna Goldine. I was in stock footage heaven during my work on this one: loads of archival film of technology and the Silicon Valley from the 1950s through the 1980s. Fabulously geeky stuff. But besides the nostalgia for technology, the film is driven by some very sharp, funny, powerhouse characters who brought the likes of Apple, Intel, Genentech and Atari into being. Online wrapped very recently and we’re still awaiting news on a festival premiere. Since getting back from our trip, I’ve been doing freelance ad agency work, and entertaining a new kitten in our household whom we have christened Mr. Squeak. 7.1.09...”Clarity and pep,” etc. A few items to report... MINE was reviewed in Variety and I got a shout out: Credit helmer Geralyn Pezanoski and editor Jen Bradwell for clarity and pep in telling an ultimately inspirational story... We’ll be at the Mill Valley Film Festival this October, and on PBS’ Independent Lens in Spring 2010! For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on a making-of documentary about Forrest Gump. Paramount is doing a Blu-ray release for the 15th anniversary and ordered up all new special features from ZAP, Zoetrope Aubry Productions. So I’ve been working with the great Kim Aubry, former head of post production at Zoetrope, on an interesting half-hour piece about the visual effects in the film. The piece focuses on the fact that Gump was made during a crossover period when photochemical processes were starting to be replaced by digital ones. Part of it is a chronicle of old matte painting and optical printing techniques, which is highly appealing to the former film student in me. I’ll post a clip soon. In August, I’ll be starting a feature doc project with Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, the fantastic filmmakers who made Ballets Russes in 2005. VC: Inside the World of Legendary Risk Takers will tell the story of the first generation of venture capitalists, the guys who helped build the likes of Apple, Atari, Genentech, Intel, and more. Looking forward to it! 3.22.09...Big wins at SXSW!!! We’re just returning home from an exceptional week at SXSW. Both MINE and Motherland won the audience awards in their respective categories! So celebrate we did, with an impressive mix of like-minded filmmakers, Austin’s hospitality and free alcohol. Fingers are crossed for good distribution deals now. Todd and I were both really impressed with these other docs at the festival too... Still Bill - A film about Bill Withers was waiting to be made, and after seven years of knocking on his door, the filmmakers were finally granted access. There’s a quote that my grandfather loves that goes something like this: “Great men are like tall buildings. The view suffers when you get too close.” But I can’t say that about Bill Withers. Beyond all of his great music, he’s remarkably honest, humble, funny, and just a model human being. Winnebago Man - He’s known as The Angriest Man in the World, but this film is a surprisingly complex look at the man behind the YouTube phenomenon. Hilarious, fascinating, very well-made film. 3.10.09...MINE is going to SXSW! Last Friday, March 10th at 11:00 PM, an HDCAM deck at Ntropic birthed the Edited Master for the film. Ahhhhh, exhale. MINE has been a year and a half in the making (as far as the editing goes). But the director, the wonderful Geralyn Pezanoski, went to New Orleans a few weeks after Katrina to film the animal rescue effort. Some months later, she learned of custody battles that were erupting when some people who had adopted Katrina animals refused to send them back to their original owners. The film is a complex and unexpected portrait of the Katrina saga, and brings up a lot of difficult questions about race and class and animal welfare. It always sparks a heated conversation among audience members. So I’m incredibly excited to see it finally going out into the world. This weekend we leave for SXSW where MINE is one of eight films in competition for documentary feature. Another film I did some editing on, Motherland, is also in competition there in the Emerging Visions category. 3.2.09...Composing for Docs Presentation at the Sebastopol Film Festival My husband Todd has been asked to speak next week in Sebastopol. From the SFF website: A Special Presentation by Todd Boekelheide (Hosted by Teresa Book Webster) Academy Award-winner Todd Boekelheide began his film career as the janitor and projectionist at American Zoetrope (Francis Coppola’s production company) in 1974. Since then he has edited picture and sound, been a rerecording mixer, and now composes music for independent films and documentaries. In this presentation he will show excerpts of his work and discuss various approaches he takes when scoring documentaries. Saturday, March 7, 2:00 PM Sebastopol Center for the Arts 6780 Depot Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 2.24.09...This week I’m working on some web videos for Adobe for their new CS4 line, specifically Premiere Pro. I won’t mention which editing software I’m using to cut them… 2.12.09...Unspeakable I’m happy to report that my dear friend, Oscar-nominated director Sally Heckel, will be taking her film Unspeakable to Dox Box in Damascus in March. I did some work for Sally on this documentary (color correction and DVD authoring), and as a result I’ve probably seen it dozens of times. But I still want to see it again. Twenty years in the making (that’s right, twenty years in the making), Sally’s film is an exploration of how her father’s suicide affected her family. These words from a reviewer sum up the viewing experience well: “Your film expressed emotion that we lack language for.” Half of the film draws from beautiful color 16mm home movies from 1940s and 50s in Rochester, New York. Editing wonks will appreciate this: the film doesn’t have any dissolves, fades or even any music. 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