Esther Robinson, Director Doug Block, Producer Tamra Raven, Producer In Association With Chicken & Egg Pictures
Shannon Kennedy, Editor Adam Cohen, Dir. of Photography T. Griffin, Composer Kelly DeVine, Co-Producer James K. Lyons, Editor/Consulting Editor Kim Wood, Assoc. Editor/Producer Marnee Meyer, Associate Editor Gemeem Davis, Assoc. Producer

James K. Lyons, Editor/Consulting Editor
James Lyons has worked in the film industry for twenty years. He is primarily known as a film editor, and particularly for his long collaboration with the director Todd Haynes. He has cut all of Haynes’s feature films, including POISON, SAFE (starring Julianne Moore), VELVET GOLDMINE (starring Ewan McGregor, Toni Collette and Christian Bale), and FAR FROM HEAVEN (starring Julianne Moore, and Dennis Quaid). These films have been nominated for and won numerous awards, including POISON’s Sundance Grand Dramatic Prize, VELVET GOLDMINE’s Special Artistic Award at Cannes, and FAR FROM HEAVEN’S three Oscar nominations. SAFE has been routinely cited as one of the Ten Best Films of the Nineties by various publications, including: The New York Times, The LA Times, The Village Voice, and Sight and Sound.

 

Other films Mr. Lyons has edited include Sofia Coppola’s THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (with Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett), Jesse Peretz’s FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES (Giovanni Ribisi) and THE CHATEAU (Paul Rudd and Didier Flammand) and Tom Gilroy’s SPRING FORWARD (Ned Beatty and Liev Schreiber). His documentary work includes SILVERLAKE LIFE by Peter Friedman, and SHOOTING PORN by Ronnie Larson. In all, three of his films have been accepted to the Cannes Film Festival, three have gone to the New York Film Festival and four have shown in competition at Sundance, two winning major awards (SILVERLAKE LIFE won the Sundance Grand Prize for Documentary). Yet to be released are Dan Harris’s IMAGINARY HEROES (starring Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsche and Jeff Daniels), Erik Schojlberg’s PROZAC NATION (starring Christina Ricci, Jessica Lange and Jason Biggs) and Esther Robinson’s documentary THE DANNY WILLIAMS STORY. Jim has also acted in films, with lead roles in Todd Haynes’s POISON and Steve MacClean’s POSTCARDS FROM AMERICA, in which he played the noted artist and AIDS activist David Wojnorowicz. He has curated film programs for various film festivals and written or co-written three feature length scripts, including VELVET GOLDMINE. He studied English and Film Production at New York University. Jim looks forward to directing his first film in October 2006, an experimental multi-screen short called A SHORT FILM ABOUT ANDY WARHOL (starring Gus Van Sant as Andy Warhol). He is also currently writing a feature length narrative entitled THE WORLD, AND ALL THE DREAMERS IN IT… This project is based in part on the life story of the noted French philosopher Michel Foucault. He hopes to direct it in 2008.