Shelly walked away (well, more like RAN away) from an eleven year career at the Federal Reserve Bank to pursue feature film work, accepting an Assistant Film Editor position on Todd Haynes’ VELVET GOLDMINE. She likes to think this was an auspicious event. She continued to flourish in the New York independent scene, working on such critically acclaimed films as HAPPINESS and JESUS’ SON. She ventured into more commercial terrain, working with editor Richard Marks on two films, Nora Ephron’s YOU’VE GOT MAIL and Mike Nichols’s WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? She reconnected with Todd Haynes and editor Jim Lyons and completed work as an Associate Editor on the exquisite FAR FROM HEAVEN. Her second Associate Editor position was on BEE SEASON which brought her together with noted indie directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel and their editor Lauren Zuckerman. Academy Award winning editor Martin Walsh also contributed.
Shelly went on to edit the short film A SEASON OF MADNESS, directed by Academy Award nominated Katja Esson. SEASON has enjoyed a long and successful festival run.
She has also worked in television as an assistant editor, completing Season Two of the HBO award winning drama THE WIRE.
As Additional Editor, Shelly had the good fortune to bond with the notoriously talented Larry Fessenden on the third of his “trilogy of horror” films THE LAST WINTER (to be released by IFC films late 2007). She loves this quote: "Astonishing. Fessenden’s cinema is distinguished by the various miraculous equilibriums it sustains, precarious but increasingly sure-footed balancing acts between seemingly exclusive concepts: high-concept and low-budget, abstraction and immediacy, the shopworn and the visionary. Adam Nayman, CINEMASCOPE
Shelly has recently completed THE NANNY DIARIES (to be released September, 2007), as Additional Editor, working alongside Bob Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (of AMERICAN SPLENDOR fame), a Weinstein Company project of which she is proud to have survived!
She is currently slated to edit WINGED MAN, an American Film Institute sponsored short film written by Jose Rivera (MOTORCYCLE DIARIES), to be directed by Marya Mazor. |
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