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VGOW Extraordinary editors Carly Brown BFE, Galina Chakarova, Dan Crinnion ACE, Adam Moss chats with Imogen Pollard BFE about working on the TV Series, Extraordinary Season 1 & 2. You can watch on Disney+ in the UK. Season 1 was nominated in the British Film Editors Cut Above Awards 2024 for Best Edited Comedy Series.

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director/co-writer Alexander Payne and editor Kevin Tent, ACE, as they discuss their black comedy Election. Even in a career full of modern-day greats, Alexander Payne’s 1999 breakout, Election, is still one of his sharpest, funniest, and most unfortunately relevant works. Adapted by Payne and Jim Taylor from Tom Perrotta’s novel, Election follows a bitter high school teacher who goes out of his way to try to prevent an über-ambitious student from becoming class president. Turning in career-highlight performances, Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon dive into their roles with aplomb, and longtime Payne collaborator Kevin Tent, ACE, brings out the film’s acerbic wit and biting drama. Whether viewed as a straightforward high school dramedy or a satirical allegory for American politics at large, Election is an instant-classic that has only increased in acclaim with age.

This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Tuesday, October 15 at 9PM ET/6PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Tuesday, October 15 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Wednesday, October 16 at 3PM ET/12PM PT
Please RSVP by 3 hours before on the day of your selected event.
**ACE members and newsletter subscribers, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director Matt Reeves as he discusses his 2014 science fiction film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. After the critical and commercial success of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, filmmaker Matt Reeves took over directing duties for Dawn, making an even smarter, more emotional, and visually dazzling sequel that further tracks the rift between humans and a group of intelligent apes. Anchored by Andy Serkis’ typically expressive motion-capture work as ape leader Caesar, and edited by William Hoy, ACE, and Stan Salfas, ACE, this film both deepens and expands what came before it. What’s most thrilling about Dawn though is the passion with which Reeves infuses it. The rare filmmaker who can merge blockbuster cinema with filmic art, Reeves further breathed life into this once-dormant franchise and proved that it had a glorious, chest-thumping path forward.

This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Tuesday, October 1 at 9PM ET/6PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Thursday, October 3 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Friday, October 4 at 3PM ET/12PM PT **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Paul Hirsch, ACE is an Award Winning American Film Editor who is discussing his life's work, including the original George Lucas Star Wars, A New Hope & The Empire Strikes Back, the iconic Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Mission: Impossible

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with editor Maurissa Horwitz and screenwriter Meg LeFauve, as they discuss their work on the 2024 coming-of-age Inside Out 2. The first Inside Outwas one of Pixar’s most exhilarating triumphs: a complex, profoundly moving, and wickedly funny exploration of a young girl’s emotions. And its sequel, Inside Out 2, is another insightful, surprising work that follows the original five emotions and some new ones as their girl, Riley, navigates being a teenager and the anxiety that comes with it. Paced at a breakneck speed by debuting director Kelsey Mann and editor Maurissa Horwitz and filled with rich vocal performances from its exceptional voice cast, Inside Out 2 is the rare film that has captured both the hearts and especially minds of critics and audiences and shown that the geniuses at Pixar are still operating at the top of their game.

This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, September 11 at 8PM ET/5PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.

Encore 1: Wednesday, September 11 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
Encore 2: Thursday, September 12 at 3PM ET/12PM PT

Please RSVP by 3 hours before on the day of your selected event. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy. Join us for a Q&A with editor Richard Francis-Bruce, ACE, as he discusses his work on the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption. Frank Darabont’s directorial debut, The Shawshank Redemption, is itself the ultimate redemption story. Dismissed upon release, The Shawshank Redemption quickly developed a devoted following on TV and home video, earned seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and is now hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. All of the deserved praise heaped upon this film belies the fact that, at its heart, it is a small, down-to-earth prison drama about a wrongfully-imprisoned man and his friendship with a fellow inmate. As cut by veteran editor Richard Francis-Bruce, ACE, this methodically-paced drama crescendos to a tremendously powerful climax that makes an already-affecting film ascend to true cinematic transcendence. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, September 4 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

VGOW Paul Hirsch, ACE is our first Autumn Season Virtual Glass of Wine VGOW.
Paul is a multi-award-winning American Film Editor who is discussing his life work, including the original George Lucas Star Wars, A New Hope & The Empire Strikes Back, the iconic Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol.

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with director/co-writer David Wain, as he discusses his work on the 2001 satirical comedy Wet Hot American Summer. David Wain and Michael Showalter have a very distinct sense of humor – over-the-top, low-brow, and raunchy – and upon release in 2001, few understood the giddy genius of their paean to summer camp movies, Wet Hot American Summer. Starring a group of then-relative unknowns, many of whom would go on to A-list status – Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, and others – and edited by Meg Reticker, this raucous raunchfest quickly found a devoted cult following that has grown by the year. What makes Wet Hot so special is the love and sincerity with which it was made as well as its willingness to go anywhere and do anything. Like so many other great cult movies, Wet Hot American Summer was simply ahead of its time, though luckily the world seems to have caught up with it. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, August 19 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Picturehouse 441 and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote film literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with actor Greg Sestero, as he discusses his work in the 2003 unintentionally hilarious cult drama The Room. The Room is this generation's Rocky Horror Picture Show – an I-can't-believe-anyone-made-a-movie-like-this midnight movie sensation courtesy of enigmatic director, producer, writer, star Tommy Wiseau and editor Eric Yalkut Chase. Now billed as a “black comedy”, there’s nothing in this unintentionally hilarious film that indicates it was ever intended to be anything but a drama. Full of now-iconic one-liners – “Oh hai, Mark!” – gratuitous sex scenes, and frequent shots of a spoon painting sitting on a table (at midnight screenings, audience members throw plastic spoons every time the picture appears), The Room is a joy-inducing spectacle. And, to top it all off, co-star and frequent Wiseau conspirator, Greg Sestero, wrote a bestselling book, The Disaster Artist, that chronicles the making of The Room that was itself adapted into an Oscar-nominated film. The Roomis our programmer Joshua Handler’s favorite cult movie that is a passionately-made work which has given the world over 20 years of happiness and nonstop laughter. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, August 5 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**

Join us for a Q&A with screenwriter Eric Roth, as he discusses his work on the 1994 comedy-drama film Forrest Gump. Winner of 6 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Film Editing for Arthur Schmidt, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Eric Roth, Forrest Gump is a film that is so moving, so sweet, and so expertly-crafted that it’s outlasted most of its contemporaries. Following an Alabamian, Forrest Gump, who finds himself at the center or just to the side of many critical points in mid-20th Century US history, this warm, winsome film is endlessly endearing and full of moments that became cultural touchpoints. In adapting Winston Groom’s 1986 novel for the screen, Eric Roth proved once again why he’s the master of film adaptations (six of his seven Oscar nominations are for Best Adapted Screenplay), as he gave this epic, decades-spanning story both the requisite sweep and a huge heart. Endlessly quotable and with an iconic Tom Hanks at its center, Forrest Gump is a zeitgeist-capturing sensation that found director Robert Zemeckis at the peak of his powers, displaying his mastery of mixing human drama with technical wizardry to great effect. This event will be a Zoom Webinar on Monday, July 29 at 7PM ET/4PM PT. **ACE members, please check your email for free ticket information.**