Outstanding Achievement in Editing :: The 2013 Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking

Outstanding Achievement in Editing
In nonfiction filmmaking, the editor is a sculptor, taking hours and hours of raw footage and building a script, a narrative that gives life and resonance to the directors vision. Here we acknowledge the editor’s prime role in the creative construction of documentary. Previous winners in this category include Doug Abel, Jenny Golden and Andy Grieve for MANDA BALA (Send a Bullet) (2008), Jinx Godfrey for MAN ON WIRE (2009), Janus Billeskov-Jansen and Thomas Papapetros for BURMA VJ (2010), Chris King and Tom Fulford for EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (2011) and Gregers Sall and Chris King for SENNA (2012).

Tchoupitoulas

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Editing

Late one night three teenage boys sneak out of the house and take the ferry across the water to embark upon a clandestine adventure through the French Quarter in New Orleans. We participate in their wonderment as they begin a…

Room 237

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film, Outstanding Achievement in Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

Have you ever seen a hidden message? In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his classic horror film, The Shining. Loved and hated by equal numbers, the film is considered a genre standard by many loyalists, while other viewers dismiss it as…

How to Survive a Plague

Nominated for Audience Choice, Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film, Outstanding Achievement in Editing

In 1987, as the death count mounted for New York’s gay community, Senator Jesse Helms blamed the victims for their disease and President Reagan refused to speak the disease’s name—let alone launch a national policy to address it. Into this…

Detropia

Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

Once a place symbolic of the American Dream, Detroit has been hard hit by the economic downturn. Detroit natives would say “downturn” is an understatement; they’re facing all-out depression. The Academy Award-nominated duo Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady create an…

5 Broken Cameras

Nominated for Audience Choice, Outstanding Achievement in Editing, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

Five broken cameras—and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the…

Cinema Eye Honors

The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking recognize and honor exemplary craft and innovation in nonfiction film. Cinema Eye’s mission is to advocate for, recognize and promote the highest commitment to rigor and artistry in the nonfiction field.