My 2015 thus far...

Okay so several things have happened in the last several months since I posted. Here are some quick hits... Halt And Catch Fire Season 2 premiered on AMC! I was an assistant editor again this season. I love the team and the show. Plus it has 94% on Rotten Tomatoes!

Scumbag, a short film I cut in 2014 directed by Luke Spears, had its premiere at the 2015 Newport Beach Film Festival and won Best Student Film at the Vail Film Festival. Luke recently graduated from Columbia University's MFA Film Producing Program.

Overheads, another short film I cut in 2014, premiered online. You can view it below! Directed by the great Jesse Rosen.

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And lastly, I had started up on HBO's Lewis & Clark miniseries, but unfortunately production shut down due to "creative differences." So now I'm back out and looking for good projects.

Adobe interviewed me about Premiere at Sundance 2014...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVG3k3lWIrs This past January I was interviewed about my work on Dig, the short film directed by Toby Halbrooks. In it, I described how I used Adobe Premiere to help improve my workflows and simplify many of the steps in the editorial process. Check it out!

Check out DIG, the Sundance 2014 short film I edited...

http://youtu.be/gCXQrDqic1s We're fighting for first place in the Youtube Award contest. Every view counts! Please watch!

Martin Scorsese's "Street Of Dreams"

For the summer of 2013, I was the Assistant Editor for Kevin Tent ACE on a project few ever get to do. Martin Scorsese was directing a commercial campaign for Dolce & Gabbana, and we were brought in to do it. "But why not Thelma?" you ask... Well she was busy working around the clock on a certain Oscar-nominated movie you might've heard of, so she wasn't available. By some act of God, Kevin got the call. Here is the complete director's cut that we made and used for the entire campaign's different edits (twenty-six different finished spots!). Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO2fTlldqds

What I'm Working On: Kanye West's Cruel Summer

Edited by Robert Grigsby Wilson. No shit. Check out the reviews here and info about the building here.

What I'm Working On - CLAIRE Rides.TV Interactive Experience

A quick note to update everyone on a "transmedia experience" I edited last month. The project is an interactive video that includes you in the story through emails, phone calls, and texts. It was a collaboration with fellow Emerson alums Landon Zakheim and Justin Gurnari the great crew at Fourth Wall Studios. It was a blast to work on and a lot of fun to experiment with the medium. Check out this LA Times article written about the company.

Click this screenshot to take you to the site.

If you want to check out the trailer for their other project Dirty Work, you can watch it below.

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What I'm Working On: Miranda July, Reggie Watts, and the Teen Choice Awards.

Okay, so three new pieces of video here, edited by yours truly.  Two new, one old, but everything very cool (I think). First, "A Handy Guide For The Easily Distracted", the vignette I cut with Miranda as a promotional piece for her new film The Future.  Now that I've found an embedable link for the video, I decided to repost a note about it.  Check it out!  Then click the link below it to visit the original site with the posting and read a great interview with her about her work.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc57X0j_UwM&w=480&h=300] Click here to read her interview.

Next, a music video I cut featuring Reggie Watts. This video was finished a few months ago, but I haven't had the time to write about it.  The band featured in the song is Eagle And Talon, a super-awesome duo producing some great tunes.  Shot by Catherine Goldschmidt and edited by me!

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Lastly, the 2011 Teen Choice Awards!  Yay!  Harry Potter was the big winner at this year's awards, so they asked me to cut a tribute package for the film to close the show.  It got a great response and even a mention in the Hollywood Reporter and other news sites.  Check it out here.  You can also watch the presentation from the TCA below it.

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What I'm Working On: A vignette from Miranda July's The Future...

Last year, I spent a good deal of time working on Miranda July's new movie The Future.  It opens Friday July 29th.  You should go see it.  It's great. Recently, she and I worked together on repurposing a deleted scene from the film into a vignette for Nowness.com.

MIRANDA JULY on NOWNESS.COM

(Since embedded videos don't always work on Wordpress, click the link!)

And if you haven't watched the trailer for the movie, here it is:

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