Oct 1, 2012
Artist Development
The San Francisco Film Society has announced a new master class with Sam Pollard, the award-winning editor best known for his narrative and documentary collaborations with director Spike Lee, 1:00 pm, Friday November 2 at FilmHouse, 1426 Fillmore Street, Suite 300.
In this unique master class, acclaimed editor Sam Pollard will lead an intimate in-depth craft-based discussion on the art of editing narrative and documentary films. Pollard’s professional accomplishments as a feature film and television video editor and as a documentary producer and director span more than thirty years. His acclaimed collaborations as an editor with writer-director Spike Lee include Mo’ Better Blues (1990) Jungle Fever (1991), Juice (1992), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), 4 Little Girls (1997), Bamboozled (2000) and When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006). Among his producing credits are Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crosswords (1990), for which Pollard received an Emmy; and I’ll Make Me A World: Stories of African-American Artists and Community (1999), for which he received the George Peabody Award; and Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson, which earned him another Emmy. Pollard lectures frequently and teaches film and television editing at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Master Class Tickets $25 for SFFS members, $30 general. Box office now open online at sffs.org.
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The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will also be hosting a discussion with Pollard on Thursday November 1, followed by a screening of Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues. On Saturday November 3, Pollard will introduce Tony Silver’s classic 1984 documentary Style Wars, which he coedited. For more information about film programs at the PFA theater visit bampfa.berkeley.edu.
Previous Behind the Scenes participants have included documentary filmmaker Les Blank, editor Curtiss Clayton, costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis, composer Mark Isham, animator John Musker, art director Patricia Woodbridge, special effects creator Phil Tippett and producer Sid Ganis.
Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema is presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive with major support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.