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Jennifer Abbott, the Co-Director and Editor of The Corporation and more recently, Executive Producer and Editor of I AM will be at CineVic in November for a two-part editing workshop.
On November 19th Abbott will teach The Art of the Edit. She will explain the process of great editing for both narrative and documentary films. Using examples from various classic films, she will discuss creative editing techniques used to engage, provoke and inspire viewers.
At the end of the day, students will be given identical footage to use to cut a short sequence. These sequences will be screened two weeks later at the follow-up workshop on December 3rd. Screenings will be followed by a discussion with Abbott about what worked, and how to make what didn’t more inspired and powerful.
November 19th and December 3rd at CineVic (1931 Lee Ave.) Noon-5pm $125 (CV/MN/ViFPA members) $150 (non-members) Participants must register prior!
About Jennifer Abbott
Jennifer Abbott is a Canadian director, editor, and documentary filmmaker who believes in the power of film to challenge audiences to see the world differently, and in so doing, change the world one small step at a time. She is best known as one of the directors and editor of the widely acclaimed documentary, The Corporation, a film that compares corporate behaviour to that of a psychopath. The Corporation was held over in theatres internationally and won 26 international awards including the 2004 Sundance Audience Choice Award for World Cinema. Her first feature documentary, A Cow at My Table (1998), winner of 6 international awards, explores Western attitudes towards meat and farm animals and the heated battle between animal rights activists and the meat industry. Her previous work includes the experimental short Skinned shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and as editor of the documentaries Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage (1999) and Let It Ride (2006). She is also the editor of the book Making Video ‘In’: The Contested Ground of Alternative Video on the West Coast, has taught at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design and was the Programming Director of Video Inn, Vancouver’s independent video artist-run centre. Abbott now lives with her family on a permaculture farm on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia where she is starting both her next film and her second career – as an organic farmer.
Jennifer became involved with I AM after Tom watched The Corporation and invited Jennifer to come on board as Editor. Jennifer had an immediate connection with the subject matter of I Am, having explored many the film’s core ideas, beliefs and philosophy for many years. Using cloned media drives with those in LA and the internet to send files back and forth, she worked on I Am for two years in Canada, along with Assistants Christine Stewart and Nick Middleton and Archival Researchers Paula Sawadsky and Meg Johnstone.
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