JOSH APTER - CO-CREATOR, CO-PRODUCER
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Josh Apter attended NYU's Graduate Film Program, where his film, The 53rd Calypso staring Edward Norton, was honored with the Martin Scorsese Award for achievement in directing. For his first feature as director, Kaaterskill Falls, Josh was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards - the John Cassavetes Award and Best Debut Performance. Kaaterskill Falls was also awarded the Critic's Jury Prize at the IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival. It screened on the Sundance Channel, and is available wherever movies are sold, rented or streamed.
Josh has worked in all areas of filmmaking, from location sound recordist on numerous feature films, to videographer for Steven Spielbergʼs Shoah Foundation, where he recorded the testimonies of over 150 Holocaust survivors. As a film editor, Josh has worked on over ten feature films including The Holy Land (winner Slamdance FF/Cavu Pictures Distributor), Kaaterskill Falls and Barbecue is a Noun (Audience Award for best Documentary at the Rome International Film Festival and the River Run Film Festival).
From his love of post-production, Josh founded Manhattan Edit Workshop in 2002. Mewshop is an Apple, Avid and Adobe Authorized Training Center offering a variety of classes in the art and technique of film editing. With clients ranging from Rainbow Media, HBO, NBC and CNN, Manhattan Edit Workshop has become the premier training destination for the highest-level content creators and media professionals.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Josh Apter attended NYU's Graduate Film Program, where his film, The 53rd Calypso staring Edward Norton, was honored with the Martin Scorsese Award for achievement in directing. For his first feature as director, Kaaterskill Falls, Josh was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards - the John Cassavetes Award and Best Debut Performance. Kaaterskill Falls was also awarded the Critic's Jury Prize at the IFP/West Los Angeles Film Festival. It screened on the Sundance Channel, and is available wherever movies are sold, rented or streamed.
Josh has worked in all areas of filmmaking, from location sound recordist on numerous feature films, to videographer for Steven Spielbergʼs Shoah Foundation, where he recorded the testimonies of over 150 Holocaust survivors. As a film editor, Josh has worked on over ten feature films including The Holy Land (winner Slamdance FF/Cavu Pictures Distributor), Kaaterskill Falls and Barbecue is a Noun (Audience Award for best Documentary at the Rome International Film Festival and the River Run Film Festival).
From his love of post-production, Josh founded Manhattan Edit Workshop in 2002. Mewshop is an Apple, Avid and Adobe Authorized Training Center offering a variety of classes in the art and technique of film editing. With clients ranging from Rainbow Media, HBO, NBC and CNN, Manhattan Edit Workshop has become the premier training destination for the highest-level content creators and media professionals.
JEFFREY WOLF – CO-CREATOR, CO-PRODUCER
A world recognized feature film editor, Jeffrey Wolf has worked on films from Hollywood to India with many stops in between. Wolf has edited a wide range of independent New York and studio Hollywood movies ranging from the recent Brad Andersonʼs Vanishing on 7th St to Lasse Hallstromʼs Dear John (2009). His resume also includes the film Holes (2003), based on the 1998 Newbury Award winning novel by Louis Sachar and directed by Andy Davis; the comedy First Sunday for Sony starring Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan; and several John Waters films. In the last few years he has consulted on Lahore (2010) and Novel Romance (2011)
During much of his career, Wolf collaborated as editor and second unit director on the innovative films of the late director Ted Demme, including the smart, dark comedy The Ref (1994), and the dramatic, character driven comedy Beautiful Girls (1996). Other Demme films include: Monument Ave. (1998, aka Snitch), Whoʼs the Man? (1993) and Life (1999). Demme and Wolf collaborated with Jonathan Demme on Subway Stories (1997) for HBO.
Wolf has also edited twice for legendary filmmaker Arthur Penn on Four Friends (1981) and Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989). Jeffrey Wolfʼs penchant for cutting comedy and drama has helped to create some of the most entertaining films of the last two decades, including the favorite Billy Madison (1995), The Man (2005), The Long Shots (2008) and Downtown Express (2011).
A world recognized feature film editor, Jeffrey Wolf has worked on films from Hollywood to India with many stops in between. Wolf has edited a wide range of independent New York and studio Hollywood movies ranging from the recent Brad Andersonʼs Vanishing on 7th St to Lasse Hallstromʼs Dear John (2009). His resume also includes the film Holes (2003), based on the 1998 Newbury Award winning novel by Louis Sachar and directed by Andy Davis; the comedy First Sunday for Sony starring Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan; and several John Waters films. In the last few years he has consulted on Lahore (2010) and Novel Romance (2011)
During much of his career, Wolf collaborated as editor and second unit director on the innovative films of the late director Ted Demme, including the smart, dark comedy The Ref (1994), and the dramatic, character driven comedy Beautiful Girls (1996). Other Demme films include: Monument Ave. (1998, aka Snitch), Whoʼs the Man? (1993) and Life (1999). Demme and Wolf collaborated with Jonathan Demme on Subway Stories (1997) for HBO.
Wolf has also edited twice for legendary filmmaker Arthur Penn on Four Friends (1981) and Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989). Jeffrey Wolfʼs penchant for cutting comedy and drama has helped to create some of the most entertaining films of the last two decades, including the favorite Billy Madison (1995), The Man (2005), The Long Shots (2008) and Downtown Express (2011).
AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE) – CO-PRODUCER
The American Cinema Editors (ACE) will act as a supervisory entity and a conduit between The Edit Show and its guests. An honorary society founded in 1950, the AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORSʼ objectives are to advance the art and science of the editing profession; to increase the entertainment value of motion pictures by attaining artistic pre-eminence and scientific achievement in the creative art of editing; and to bring into close alliance those editors who desire to advance the prestige and dignity of the editing profession.
The American Cinema Editors (ACE) will act as a supervisory entity and a conduit between The Edit Show and its guests. An honorary society founded in 1950, the AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORSʼ objectives are to advance the art and science of the editing profession; to increase the entertainment value of motion pictures by attaining artistic pre-eminence and scientific achievement in the creative art of editing; and to bring into close alliance those editors who desire to advance the prestige and dignity of the editing profession.