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Transitioning from Documentary to Drama

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Transitioning from Docs to Drama


Join us for a podcast with host Isabel Sadurni and New York’s top Editors, about how they consistently and successfully bridge the worlds of non-fictional to scripted editorial. Followed by Q&A.

PANELISTS:

ALLYSON C. JOHNSON

(The Namesake, Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding )

SAM POLLARD

(If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise, 4 Little Girls, Clockers)

TIM SQUYRES

(Life of Pi, The Armstrong Lie, Syriana)

CRAIG McKAY

(Sin Nombre,Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia)

ALAN OXMAN

(Control Room, Happiness, Welcome To The Dollhouse )

 

Many established narrative editors have turned their hand todocumentaries, while others have worked in the opposite
direction working as documentarians who crossover intonarrative territory. Whether working within fictional or non-fictional worlds -- we as visual storytellers are instinctively
drawn to elements common to both genres, yet thefilmmaking communities often exist separately.
What are the strengths, strategies and strokes of luckrequired to bridge the two worlds successfully?

BIOS

ALLYSON C. JOHNSON’sFeature Film work includes: Mira
Nair’sAmelia,The Namesake, Vanity Fairand
MonsoonWedding
which received the Golden Lion for Best Film at the2001 Venice Film. Her television work includes NBC’sS
mashand
The Slap, The Wire, Quanticoand
Marco PoloforNetflix. She is presently editing Baz Luhrmann’s series
TheGet Down
for Netflix. Johnson received an Emmy Nominationediting the documentaryT
he Who’s Tommy: The AmazingJourney. Other rockumentaries include
Up From theUnderground
(Quincy Jones),S
ay It Loud(VH-1) and herTriptych short film
Kick Out the Jamsappeared at the
opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. She hasalso collaborated with such filmmakers as Spike Lee and
Griffin Dunne and Bill Moyers.

SAM POLLARDis an Emmy and Peabody Award winning
feature film and television video editor, and documentaryproducer/director whose work spans almost thirty years. He
recently completed as Producer/Director a 90-minutedocumentary titled
August Wilson: The Ground On Which I
Standfor the PBS series American Masters. His first
assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989 forHenry Hampton's Blackside production
Eyes On The Prize II:
America at the Racial Crossroadsfor which he received a
Peabody Award. Between 1990 and 2010, Mr. Pollard editeda number of Spike Lee's films:
Mo' Better Blues, Jungle
Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, and Bamboozledand co-produced a
number of documentary productions for Spike Lee PresentsM
ike Tyson, Four Little Girls, When The Levees Broke.

TIM SQUYRESh
as edited several films fordirector Ang Lee;
Pushing Hands,
The Wedding Banquet
,EatDrinkManWoman,
Sense a
nd Sensibility,T
he Ice Storm,Ri
de with the Devil,
The Hulk,
andCrouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon.
The latter earned Mr. Squyres Academy Award,
BAFTA Award, Hong Kong Film Award, and [American
Cinema Editors (ACE)] Eddie Award nominations, as well as
the Golden Horse Award (Taiwan's equivalent of the
Oscar).He was an Eddie Award nominee for his
workonRobertAltman'sAcademyAward-winning,
GosfordPark
,whichalsoearnedMr.Squyresan American Film Institute (AFI)
Award nomination.His other feature credits as editor include
Stephen Gaghan's
S
yriana
,
starring Academy Award winner
George Clooney; Paul Auster's
L
ulu on the Bridge
and
TheInnerLifeofMartinFrost;
andGeorgeButler'sdocumentary
G
oingUpriver:TheLongWarof
John
Kerry
.
He
has
also
edited
television
documentaries
for
Bill
Moyers
W
hat
Can
We
Do
About
Violence?
a
nd
A
ddiction:
Close
to
Home
)
fo
r
Michael
Moore,
ESPN,
and
VH1
.


CRAIG McKAY i
s
an
award-winning
feature
film
editor,
story
consultant,
director,
and
executive
producer.
Directing
credits
include
Emmy-Award-winning
Bubbe
Meises,Bubbe
Stories
for
PBS
and
HBO’
s
T
he
Red
Shoes
written
by
Jo
hn
Guare.
Documentary
credits
include
Br
avo’s
H
aiti:
Dreams
of
Democracy,
A
cadem
y
-
Award
-
nominated
M
andela
,
and
PBS’s
a
ward
-
winning
W
itness:
Voices
from
the 
Holocaust.
Awards
in
editing
include
an
Emmy
for
the
NBC
mini-series
Holocaust
,
as
well
as
two
Academy
Award
nominations
for
R
eds
and
T
he
Silence
of
the
Lambs.
Other
editing
highlights
include
Copland,
Philadelphia,
Married
to
the
Mob,
Something
Wild,
Melvin
and
Howard
and
many
others.
McKay
was
also
an
Executive
Producer
on
the
award-winning
feature-length
documentary
A
Normal
Life.


ALAN OXMAN
is
a
film
editor
and
producer
who
has
worked
on
a
variety
of
narrative
and
documentary
films.
As
a
producer
Alan's
recent
credits
include
A
Matter
of
Taste
which
screened
on
HBO
and
was
nominated
for
an
Emmy
Award
and
P
age
One:
Inside
the
New
York
Times
which
was
distributed
by
Magnolia
Films
and
was
also
nominated
for
an
Emmy
Award.
He
was
a
producer
on
Edet
Belzberg’s
T
he
Recruiter
,
which
won
the
Peabody
Awar
d,
as
well
as
on
C
hildren
Underground
which
won
the
Special
Jury
Prize
at
the
Sundance
Film
Festival
and
was
nominated
for
an
Academy
Award.
Alan
recently
served
as
post-production
supervisor
on
Inside
Job
(Academy
Award
for
Best
Documentary,2011)andproduceron
H
otCoffee
(Sundance2011,HBOSummerDocSeries).Hewas
the
co-
producer
and
supervising
editor
of
the
Al-Jazeera
documentary
C
ontrol
Room
(Grand
Jury
Prize,
Full
Frame
Film
Festival).
His
editing
credits
include
W
elcome
to
the
Dollhouse
(Grand
Jury
Prize,
Sundance
Film
Festival),
H
appiness
(
International
Critic’s
Award,
Cannes
Film
Festival)
and
Storytelling
(Cannes
Film
Festival),
all
for
director
Todd
Solondz.
He
was
a
consulting
editor
on
the
Oscar-
nominated
N
oEndinSight,
which
also
won
the
Special
Jury
Prize
at
the
2007
Sundance
Film
Festival.Alan
co-edited 
 U
nzipped
(Audience
Award,
Sundance
Film
Festival),
which
won
the
A.C.E.
Award
for
Best
Documentary
Editing.
He
won
two
Emmy
Awards
for
Outstanding
Documentary
Editing
on
the
PBS
series
C
ity
Life
. 

 

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