In Sujo, co-directed by Astrid Rondero (The Darkest Days of Us) and Fernanda Valadez (Identifying Features) and premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, the eponymous child is left orphaned when his father, a cartel gunman, is killed. The film then follows the turbulence that echoes throughout his life as he grows older. The film’s editor, Susan Korda, is best known for the Oscar-nominated For All Mankind, but she also edited Rondero’s The Darkest Days of Us and Valadez’s Identifying Features. Rondero and Valadez also worked on each other’s films, making this […]
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The post “Creating Editorial Iterations Can Often Be Like Smelling Too Much Perfume”: Editor Susan Korda on Sujo first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/19/2024
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In Sujo, co-directed by Astrid Rondero (The Darkest Days of Us) and Fernanda Valadez (Identifying Features) and premiering at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, the eponymous child is left orphaned when his father, a cartel gunman, is killed. The film then follows the turbulence that echoes throughout his life as he grows older. The film’s editor, Susan Korda, is best known for the Oscar-nominated For All Mankind, but she also edited Rondero’s The Darkest Days of Us and Valadez’s Identifying Features. Rondero and Valadez also worked on each other’s films, making this […]
The post “Creating Editorial Iterations Can Often Be Like Smelling Too Much Perfume”: Editor Susan Korda on Sujo first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Creating Editorial Iterations Can Often Be Like Smelling Too Much Perfume”: Editor Susan Korda on Sujo first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/19/2024
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Plus… Focus World acquires Puerto Ricans In Paris; Abramorama to release Rock In The Red Zone; The Bequest begins Canada shoot; and more.Wolfe Releasing has acquired North American rights from Rj Millard of Obscured Pictures to Joey Kuhn’s Upper East Side gay love triangle drama Those People ahead of a screening at the NewFest New York Lgbt Film Festival this weekend. The film will open on DVD, VOD and multiple digital platforms in the second quarter of 2016, including a limited theatrical release in top markets. Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph, Haaz Sleiman, Britt Lower, and Meghann Fahy, Chris Conroy and Allison Mackie star (pictured).
Producer Christine Guenther in Berlin, producer Chevy K Chen in Los Angeles and filmmaker Susan Korda in New York have launched the production label Fireglory aimed at creating independent films guided by an emphasis on equal opportunities for female filmmakers. Documentary Cassette from Zack Taylor is in post and Salomea’s Nose...
Producer Christine Guenther in Berlin, producer Chevy K Chen in Los Angeles and filmmaker Susan Korda in New York have launched the production label Fireglory aimed at creating independent films guided by an emphasis on equal opportunities for female filmmakers. Documentary Cassette from Zack Taylor is in post and Salomea’s Nose...
- 10/22/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off Part Two of its 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” screening series with the 2010 Oscar®-nominated feature “Exit through the Gift Shop” and “Catfish” on Wednesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is free.
“Exit through the Gift Shop” follows a videographer named Thierry Guetta, who attempts to document the work of some of the world’s best-known guerrilla street artists. When the artist known only as Banksy questions Guetta’s intentions, however, and seizes control of the film, the roles of filmmaker and subject are reversed. Directed by Banksy and produced by Jaimie D’Cruz, “Exit through the Gift Shop” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature.
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project,...
“Exit through the Gift Shop” follows a videographer named Thierry Guetta, who attempts to document the work of some of the world’s best-known guerrilla street artists. When the artist known only as Banksy questions Guetta’s intentions, however, and seizes control of the film, the roles of filmmaker and subject are reversed. Directed by Banksy and produced by Jaimie D’Cruz, “Exit through the Gift Shop” earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature.
In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that their project,...
- 3/16/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cologne, Germany -- David Hare, who wrote the screenplays to Stephen Daldry's "The Reader" and "The Hours" and won a Berlinale Golden Bear in 1985 for his directorial debut "Wetherby," will join a panel of wordsmiths at this year's Berlinale Talent Campus to discuss the art of screenwriting.
Joining Hare is U.S. indie producer Anne Carey ("The Savages," "Thumbsucker") and Brazilian writer-director Danielle Thomas, who, together with Walter Salles, penned and directed "Linha de Passe," "O Primerio Dia" and "Foreign Lands."
Visual effects experts Claudia Meglin and Mark Read, whose credits include "Tropic Thunder" and Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," will offer their support to the Editing Studio, a new Talent Campus program focused on post-production. Also mentoring the program are film editors Job ter Burg ("Black Book") and Susan Korda ("Trembling before G-d").
The 350 young filmmakers attending this year's Berlinale campus also will have a chance to learn from...
Joining Hare is U.S. indie producer Anne Carey ("The Savages," "Thumbsucker") and Brazilian writer-director Danielle Thomas, who, together with Walter Salles, penned and directed "Linha de Passe," "O Primerio Dia" and "Foreign Lands."
Visual effects experts Claudia Meglin and Mark Read, whose credits include "Tropic Thunder" and Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," will offer their support to the Editing Studio, a new Talent Campus program focused on post-production. Also mentoring the program are film editors Job ter Burg ("Black Book") and Susan Korda ("Trembling before G-d").
The 350 young filmmakers attending this year's Berlinale campus also will have a chance to learn from...
- 1/20/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Winner of the Teddy Award for best documentary at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, Sandi Simcha Dubowski's "Trembling Before G-d" offers a provocative portrait of gay and lesbian ultra-Orthodox Jews struggling to reconcile their sexual orientation with their devout religious beliefs.
Opening last week in Los Angeles following a successful (and ongoing) run in New York and elsewhere, the film succeeds in shedding revealing light on a group of individuals who are particularly reluctant to face a camera lens.
Considering that those who came out of the closet effectively were ostracized by their families and communities, the fact that they remain so strongly drawn to the strict tenets of their upbringing, which condemn their behavior, presents an interesting dilemma. Because many more have hidden behind arranged marriages or sought "corrective" therapies involving slightly modified forms of self-flagellation, DuBowski had his work cut out when it came to finding people willing to share their experiences.
As a result, many of his subjects are shot in silhouette or with their faces digitally obscured. Among his articulate, if reluctant, participants are openly gay Mark, the son of a London rabbi who was shipped to Israel on the mistaken belief that there are no homosexuals there; divorced Michelle, who is convinced that she is the only Hasidic lesbian, at least in Brooklyn; and "Malka" and "Leah", an observant longtime couple whose families aren't exactly supportive.
There's also David, a Los Angeles resident who, during a decadelong struggle to subvert his attraction to men, undertook such reparative measures as eating figs every day and flicking a Rubber Band on his wrist each time he felt aroused.
That's nothing compared to the shock therapy used to "cure" Brooklyn's Israel during the 1950s. Nonetheless, he's determined to reunite with his 98-year-old father, though they haven't seen each other face to face for more than 20 years.
During a five-year period, DuBowski enlisted the help of about two dozen cinematographers in six cities, including London and Jerusalem, to tell these affecting stories. Given its understandable problems finding willing interviewees, the film's ultimate scope is limited nevertheless. Without having access to some of those parents and family members, friends and religious leaders, "Trembling" is unable to deliver the kind of bigger picture that makes for a more powerful documentary.
But while its subjects, for the most part, continue to live nonsecular lives -- there's even a support group called Orthodykes -- their spiritual need to belong speaks a universal language.
TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
New Yorker
Credits:
Director-producer: Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Producer: Marc Smolowitz
Editors: Susan Korda, Johanna Prenner
Music: John Zorn
No MPAA rating
Color/stereo
Running time -- 84 minutes...
Opening last week in Los Angeles following a successful (and ongoing) run in New York and elsewhere, the film succeeds in shedding revealing light on a group of individuals who are particularly reluctant to face a camera lens.
Considering that those who came out of the closet effectively were ostracized by their families and communities, the fact that they remain so strongly drawn to the strict tenets of their upbringing, which condemn their behavior, presents an interesting dilemma. Because many more have hidden behind arranged marriages or sought "corrective" therapies involving slightly modified forms of self-flagellation, DuBowski had his work cut out when it came to finding people willing to share their experiences.
As a result, many of his subjects are shot in silhouette or with their faces digitally obscured. Among his articulate, if reluctant, participants are openly gay Mark, the son of a London rabbi who was shipped to Israel on the mistaken belief that there are no homosexuals there; divorced Michelle, who is convinced that she is the only Hasidic lesbian, at least in Brooklyn; and "Malka" and "Leah", an observant longtime couple whose families aren't exactly supportive.
There's also David, a Los Angeles resident who, during a decadelong struggle to subvert his attraction to men, undertook such reparative measures as eating figs every day and flicking a Rubber Band on his wrist each time he felt aroused.
That's nothing compared to the shock therapy used to "cure" Brooklyn's Israel during the 1950s. Nonetheless, he's determined to reunite with his 98-year-old father, though they haven't seen each other face to face for more than 20 years.
During a five-year period, DuBowski enlisted the help of about two dozen cinematographers in six cities, including London and Jerusalem, to tell these affecting stories. Given its understandable problems finding willing interviewees, the film's ultimate scope is limited nevertheless. Without having access to some of those parents and family members, friends and religious leaders, "Trembling" is unable to deliver the kind of bigger picture that makes for a more powerful documentary.
But while its subjects, for the most part, continue to live nonsecular lives -- there's even a support group called Orthodykes -- their spiritual need to belong speaks a universal language.
TREMBLING BEFORE G-D
New Yorker
Credits:
Director-producer: Sandi Simcha DuBowski
Producer: Marc Smolowitz
Editors: Susan Korda, Johanna Prenner
Music: John Zorn
No MPAA rating
Color/stereo
Running time -- 84 minutes...
- 2/25/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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