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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 It's Still Elementary (2007), Special Circumstances (2006), Tangled Roots (2000), Surfing for Life (1999), & It's Elementary (1996).
Recent Productions
Summer in Honolulu editing with Marlene Booth & Kanalu Young on their smart and charming new documentary about Pidgin, the Voice of Hawaii, and the unique multi-ethnic island culture it carries.
Springtime in New York editing with Kathy Leichter on a fundraising sample clip for her 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!
In San Francisco (via Texas!) we are gearing up for a fantastic new season of Independent Lens. Check out these highlights from the new season, premiering in October 2008.
Co-producing & story consulting on the documentary Eating Alaska with filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein. It's a PBS documentary about a former vegetarian who moves to Alaska, marries a fisherman and hunter and begins to wonder what the "right" thing to eat is on "the last frontier." What ensues are humorous and enlightening adventures in eating as Ellen follows a group of women deer hunters in the Arctic tundra, communes with the Alaska vegetarian society in Anchorage & talks moose meat with a group of native Alaska kids in a small village public school, all in search of a meal that makes sense politically, socially, spiritually and tastefully. This wry look at what's on your plate explores ideas about eating healthy sustainable food from one's own backyard, either urban or wild, versus industrially produced food shipped thousands of miles. See the trailer!
Upcoming Screenings
In BRASIL, HOLLAND, MILAN & CHILE: The hits just keep on coming! Special Circumstances by Marianne Teleki and Héctor Salgado and written & edited by yours truly, won BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Pintacanes Festival de Documentales de la Pintana in Santiago, Chile in July. It also screened at the Festival Cine Ceará in Brasil on April 11 to a crowd of 750 festival goers, where we won the prize for BEST EDITING. We also won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Latin American Film Festival in Utrecht, Holland, and a Special Jury Prize in Milan. See the trailer!
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IN SF, LA, MADRID, BUDAPEST, VANCOUVER: It's Still Elementary, a documentary looking back at ten history- making years since the release of the landmark documentary It's Elementary, won a prestigious CINE GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD. The film will screen at Outfest: the Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival in July & in Madrid, Budapest & Vancouver later this summer. Shirley was the editor of IE back in 1996 and one of the editors of the new film. For details, click.
IN HOUSTON: Shirley and PictureWorld partner Trayc Claybrook's short film HIGH FIVE won the Bronze Award for Experimental Film at the 2008 Worldfest Houston Film Festival. The film can now be streamed online at the Pictureworld vlog site.
