Summary: 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 to documentaries, while others have worked in the opposite direction working as documentarians who crossover into narrative territory. Whether working within fictional or non-fictional worlds -- we as visual storytellers are instinctively drawn to elements common to both genres, yet the filmmaking communities often exist separately. What are the strengths, strategies and strokes of luck required to bridge the two worlds successfully? BIOS ALLYSON C. JOHNSON’s Feature Film work includes: Mira Nair’s A melia,The Namesake, Vanity Fair and M onsoon Wedding which received the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 2001 Venice Film. Her television work includes NBC’s S mash a nd T he Slap, The Wire, Quantico and M arco Polo for Netflix. She is presently editing Baz Luhrmann’s series T he Get Down for Netflix. Johnson received an Emmy Nomination editing the documentary T he Who’s Tommy: The Amazing Journey . Other rockumentaries include U p From the Underground ( Quincy Jones), S ay It Loud (VH-1) and her Triptych short film K ick Out the Jams appeared at the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. She has also collaborated with such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Griffin Dunne and Bill Moyers. SAM POLLARD is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director whose work spans almost thirty years. He recently completed as Producer/Director a 90-minute documentary titled A ugust Wilson: The Ground On Which I Stand for the PBS series American Masters. His first assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989 for Henry Hampton's Blackside production E yes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads for which he received a Peabody Award. Between 1990 and 2010, Mr. Pollard edited a number of Spike Lee's films: M o' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, and Bamboozled and co-produced a number of documentary productions for Spike Lee Presents M ike Tyson, Four Little Girls, When The Levees Broke. TIM SQUYRES has edited several films for director Ang Lee; Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet , EatDrinkManWoman, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, The Hulk, and Crouching 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,G osfordPark ,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'sdocum
