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MillimeterAcclaimed Editors to Keynote at NAB Post Plus
Nov 7, 2005 2:12 PM
Emmy Award-winning editor Chris Willingham, Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker and Academy Award-nominated editor Tim Squyres will serve as featured keynote speakers at the first annual NAB Post+ Production Show November 15 - 17 at the Javits Convention Center in New York.
Chris Willingham, will deliver the opening keynote Tuesday, November 15. He is a three-time Emmy award-winning film editor for his work on the hit Fox series, 24. With a career spanning nearly three decades working in post-production, some of Willingham's credits include television cult favorites such as The X-Files, 21 Jump Street and The A-Team. He and his wife, Lynne, who is also a film editor, recently completed work on Empire, a six-hour miniseries for ABC.
Two-time Academy Award-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker will give the keynote address Wednesday, November 16. She will share her experiences editing director Martin Scorsese's feature The Aviator, for which she won an Academy Award, describing the film's creative challenges and how she worked to solve them while showing key clips from the film. A 30-year post-production veteran, Schoonmaker has collaborated closely with Scorsese on films including Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, GoodFellas and Casino.
Tim Squyres will deliver the keynote address Thursday, November 17. He has edited eight films for director Ang Lee, including The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm and The Hulk. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001 for his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and he edited the 2002 Best Picture nominee Gosford Park for director Robert Altman.
The annual NAB Post+ Production Show, developed to complement and build on the highly successful NAB Post+ Production World Conference, held at NAB's spring convention, capitalizes on the partnership between NAB and Future Media Concepts (FMC). It is targeted to the New York and the East Coast audience and will train digital artists in cutting-edge production and post-production techniques and showcase the latest content creation technologies.
Future Media Concepts, Inc. is the nation's premier digital media training center offering classroom as well as on-site training nationwide. FMC is a leading producer of large-scale digital media conferences and expos. More information about FMC can be found at www.FMCtraining.com.
The National Association of Broadcasters is a full-service trade association that promotes and protects free, over-the-air local radio and television stations' interests in Washington and around the world. NAB is the broadcaster's voice before Congress, federal agencies and the courts. NAB also serves a growing number of associate and international broadcaster members. Information about NAB can be found at www.nab.org.
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