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About
Emmy award-winning freelance editor, writer, producer and story consultant, best known for the social issue documentaries she has edited, including Pidgin: the Voice of Hawai‘i (2008), It's Still Elementary (2007), Special Circumstances (2006), Tangled Roots (2000), Surfing for Life (1999), & It's Elementary (1996).
Recent Productions
Pidgin: The Voice of Hawaii will air on PBS in September 2009 thanks to American Public Television! And the film will also have its film festival premiere at the Hawaii International Film Festival in Honolulu in October! Watch this space for news about airdates, and hopefully a clip very soon.
Summer is here and that means it's promo and trailer editing time for next fall's new season of INDEPENDENT LENS, featuring the wonderful film, YOUNG AT HEART). This spring I also produced and edited a nice set of TRAILERS for ITVS.org/international. Check them out.
Eating Alaska is wining and dining through screenings from Tucson, Arizona to Nome, Alaska. Many of you know, this is a long-time labor of love film on which I was co-producer & story consultant with filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein. It's a PBS documentary about adventures in eating on the Alaskan frontier, searching for a meal that makes sense politically, socially, spiritually and tastefully. You can locate the next screening on our FACEBOOK page. See the trailer!
Other projects on the horizon include editing Kathy Leichter's new film Mother Land, the filmmaker's own personal story of loss and making peace with the mother she thought she knew and the grandmother she never knew, in order to become the best mother she can be. See the trailer!
Recent Screenings & Awards
CALIFORNIA, NYC, ALASKA: EATING ALASKA screened in NYC at the Food for Thought Film Festival in April, the Mendocino Film Festival in May, and many, many more screenings across Alaska. Updates on FACEBOOK.
NEW YORK NEW YORK: Kara Herold's hilarious Bachelorette 34 screened at the Museum of Modern Art as part of Doctumentary Fortnight 2009. Shirley was a story consultant on B34, as well as one of the editors.
PBS in SEPTEMBER 2009: Special Circumstances by Marianne Teleki and Héctor Salgado and edited by Shirley T. is selected for the 2009 season of VOCES, an anthology documentary series on PBS. The film will air in September of 2009. Watch this space for airdates. See the trailer!
