Editor Ann Collins Delves into the Opening Scene of “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold”

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Editor Ann Collins from our Documentary panel from "Sight, Sound & Story: Post Production Summit on June 14, 2018.
Ann Collins is a New York based documentary film editor. This year, she was nominated for an American Cinema Editor’s Eddie award for her work on Griffin Dunne’s "Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold" which premiered at the 2017 New York Film Festival. Prior to that, she co-produced and edited "Swim Team," an independent documentary which has won numerous awards and premiered this fall on PBS’s POV series. Ann’s career began more than twenty-five years ago when she edited Gini Reticker’s independent documentary, "The Heart of the Matter," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Freedom of Expression Award.
Her credits include the documentaries "Belly Talkers," "The Charcoal People," and "Sound and Fury," all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before receiving theatrical and television distribution. "Sound and Fury" was nominated for an Academy Award. For television, she edited "Frontline: Merchants of Cool" and "Porgy & Bess: An American Voice" as well as productions for Martha Stewart, MTV, Lifetime, CBS, and PBS. She has edited web projects for Etsy and Johns Hopkins University. She has also worked extensively as a story consultant and consulting editor on numerous independent documentaries.
Across more than 50 years of essays, novels, screenplays, and criticism, Joan Didion has been our premier chronicler of the ebb and flow of America’s cultural and political tides with observations on her personal - and our own - upheavals, downturns, life changes, and states of mind. In the intimate, documentary "Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold," actor and director Griffin Dunne unearths a treasure trove of archival footage and talks at length to his “Aunt Joan” about the eras she covered and the eventful life she’s lived, including partying with Janis Joplin in a house full of L.A. rockers; hanging in a recording studio with Jim Morrison; and cooking dinner for one of Charles Manson’s women for a magazine story. Didion guides us through the sleek literati scene of New York in the 1950s and early ’60s, when she wrote for Vogue; her return to her home state of California for two turbulent decades; the writing of her seminal books, including Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album; her film scripts, including The Panic in Needle Park; her view of 1980s and ’90s political personalities; and the meeting of minds that was her long marriage to writer John Gregory Dunne.
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"Sight Sound and Story" is an annual event presented by Manhattan Edit Workshop that brings audiences "behind the scenes" with legends of visual storytelling. Each year the one day summit brings together a collection of diverse and intriguing high-profile speaker series to discuss the evolving world of post-production. Panels topics have included the art and processes of editing film & television, exploring ground-breaking interactive media, the fast pace of cutting sports television, getting the real from reality television, experiencing the magic of feature sound design, taking a look at the vital roles of the VFX artist, and deconstructing key scenes from fiction and documentary favorites.
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[@angelamckenzie3913]

Oh my goodness, I just finished watching this - from this opening scene I was captivated, I drank in every word - the final words are just as powerful. Thank you for making this powerful and thought provoking documentary

[@lizadivine3785]

I love it how much faith her mother had in her. Good eye!

[@katwashere194]

Definitely worth watching more than once. I got even more out of a second viewing

[@cianpritchard1961]

ive watched it, or listened to it over probably some 50 times now. and that’s been in the past month or two.

[@dcplyr]

I’ll be interested in seeing the entire Doc.

[@lisawallace1741]

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