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Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are excited to put the “splice” in Shoot & Splice!
Join us for a virtual chat with film editors Eileen Meyer (CRIP CAMP) and Michael Taylor (THE FAREWELL), moderated by filmmaker Laura Jean Hocking. They will discuss several topics including: working with a director, workflow preferences, creative techniques, and more. This is your chance to learn from some of the best independent editors in both narrative and documentary film.
Shoot & Splice is a FREE filmmaker forum presented by Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis, featuring a wide variety of technical, educational, and unique topics of interest to the Memphis filmmaking community.
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Eileen Meyer is a film editor and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. In 2016, she was awarded the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and was nominated for the Cinema Eye Honors “Outstanding Achievement in Editing” Award for Best of Enemies (2015 Sundance Film Festival, 2016 Academy Award shortlist, and 2017 Emmy Award winner).
Eileen received her BA in Film from Hampshire College in 2004, then began her career in New York City and Memphis, TN. She produced and edited numerous award-winning shorts, features, and tv series, including most recently “The Devil Next Door” (Netflix 2019) and “Crip Camp” (Sundance 2020).
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Michael Taylor is a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE). He was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for Best Editing of a Feature Comedy, for Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell,” starring Awkwafina, Tze Ma, Diana Lin and Zhao Shuzhen, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film won Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for best feature at the Gotham Awards and best international feature at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs. Awkwafina won Best Actress at the Golden Globes and Gothams. A24 released the film.
Taylor’s most recent project, Edson Oda’s “Nine Days,” starring Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Benedict Wong, Bill Skarsgård and Tony Hale, won the Waldo Salt Award for Best Screenwriting at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics will release the film fall 2020.
