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Cutting on the Edge: Campus Editing Studio Presentation

Time
Feb 17th 2011
Location
Other venue: CinemaxX 17
Guests
Paz Lázaro, Kevin Murphy, Florian Weghorn, Susan Korda

In cooperation with dffb.

That extra little insight and input is sometimes all it takes to polish a rough-cut and strengthen the narrative structure of a fiction or documentary project. Internationally renowned editors join the Campus Editing Studio to give advice and feedback that will help take films that extra distance. Selected participants will present excerpts from their rough-cuts and describe how the one-day session in the editing room provided fresh insights and approaches to their projects. In conversation with Susan Korda, the participants will explain the challenges they identified within their rough-cuts and the various approaches that were tried and tested in the Editing Studio. Often the editing process can drag on longer than expected, and film festival submission deadlines are fast approaching. When is a rough-cut polished enough to present to festival programmers? Paz Lázaro, Programme Manager, Berlinale Panorama, and Florian Weghorn, Co-Director, Berlinale Generation, will join the conversation and share their experiences when viewing rough-cuts during the programming process. The discussion will turn to when and how to present a rough-cut, as well as shedding light on the expectations of programmers when they select a rough-cut for screening.

Paz Lázaro

Programme manager at Berlinale Panorama and member of the selection committee for Berlinale Competition. She is part of the board of the European Film Academy, a member of the Spanish Film Commission, and has curated other commissioned programmes like the Spanish Film Club Programme in New York. Previously she has been engaged in film production with feature films such as NÓMADAS (2000), THE WITCH AFFAIR (2002), SOBRE EL ARCOR ISIS (2003), and the documentary FALLEN ANGEL: GRAM PARSONS (2004).

Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy is a Berlin-based media arts programmer. From 2008-2018, he was a member of the Berlinale Talents selection committee and coordinated the Editing Studio. Previously, he selected films for Berlinale Panorama, the Hamptons International Film Festival and the Lake Placid Film Festival, and was a film and media arts curatorial assistant at the Guggenheim. He has curated for Posit(HIV)e Screenings (2010) and the LOOP Festival (2007-2009), and has written on cinema for Filmmaker Magazine and sensesofcinema.com.

Florian Weghorn

Florian Weghorn is the Programme Manager of Berlinale Talents. Together with Nikola Joetze, he heads the initiative and advises its seven international branches and the alumni network around the globe. He holds an MA in Theatre, Film and Television Studies from the University of Cologne. Florian joined Berlinale Generation in 2002 and served as the co-director and curator of the programme from 2008 to 2014. Between 2012 and 2019, Florian was also a member of the Berlinale Competition Selection Committee. He has written and edited several publications on film and youth culture.
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Susan Korda

Susan Korda edited the Academy Award-nominated “For all Mankind” and the Teddy Award-winning “Trembling before G-d". In 2021, she received an Ariel Award for the award-sweeping feature "Sin señas particulares". Susan was story consultant on “First Cousin Once Removed”, which won at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2012 and was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2014. Her directing credits include “Vienna is Different", “One of Us” and the short “Salomea’s Nose".