Artists in Residence
The Artist-in-Residence Program is a core component of Manhattan Edit Workshop's Six Week Art of Editing Course. Top film editors join the class to screen and discuss their work, while students share their edits for comments and critique.
Our Resident Artists include some of the best in the business: Alan Heim (All That Jazz*, Network*), David Salter (Finding Nemo*, Toy Story 2), Andrew Mondshein (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Sixth Sense), John Gilroy (Michael Clayton*, Tumbleweeds), Stephen Rotter (The Right Stuff*, Enchanted, The World According to Garp), Curtiss Clayton (My Own Private Idaho, The Assasination of Jesse James), Carol Littleton (E.T.*, Grand Canyon), Christopher Tellefsen (Capote*, The People vs. Larry Flint), Lee Percy (Reversal of Fortune*, Boys Don't Cry*), Tom Haneke (American Dream*, He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'*), Keith Reamer (I Shot Andy Warhol, Suffering Man's Charity), Michael Berenbaum (Before Night Falls, Sex and The City), Bill Pankow (Drumline, The Untouchables*) Larry Silk (Marjoe*, Wildman Blues), Kate Sanford (The Wire, Sex and The City) and Norman Hollyn (Heathers, "The Film Editing Room Handbook").
*Academy Award winner
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Kate Sanford
Kate Sanford is a seasoned feature film and series television editor. The movie O was Kate's second collaboration with filmmaker Tim Blake Nelson, for whom she also edited Eye of God, which screened in competition at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. Another longtime collaboration has been with Michael Corrente, who directed Outside Providence, Brooklyn Rules and American Buffalo, starring Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz. Sanford's recent work includes Management with Jennifer Aniston and the acclaimed HBO series The Wire.