June 24/Los Angeles: Cine Gear Expo 2000. (323) 256-9056; fax: (323) 254-8696; details323@earthlink.net….
– June 26-27/Toronto: Kid Power Canada. www.kidpowerx.com….
– June 28/New York: Video Streaming & Collaboration Seminar at Pulse Digital. Ruth, (212) 490-9730; rellison@virtualmediaonline.com….
– July 11-12/Chicago: eKid Power. www.kidpowerx.com….
– July 14-16/North Hollywood: VES 2000: A Festival of Visual Effects. Addie Bua, (818) 708-3355; adgogirl@aol.com….
– July 17/Minneapolis: The 9th Annual AICP Show at the Walker Art Center hosted by AICP/Minneapolis. Kirk Hokanson, (612) 617-0000….
– July 26/Beverly Hills. The 3rd annual MVPA Directors’ Cuts Film Festival. (323) 469-9494….
– July 29-Aug. 4/London: Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. 0207 7851 6207; www.sohoshorts.com….
– Sept. 13/San Francisco: The 9th Annual AICP Show at SF MoMA hosted by AICP/West. Jessica Sumption, (323) 960-4763….
– Sept. 13-14/Miami: Kid Power Latin America. www.kidpowerx.com….
– Sept. 20/Chicago: Teen Power 2000. www.kidpowerx.com….
– Sept. 21/Winston-Salem, N.C.: The 9th Annual AICP Show at the North Carolina School of the Arts hosted by AICP/Southeast. Tom Gibney, (615) 354-9001….
– September 22-25/Los Angeles: 109th AES Convention. (212) 661-8528; fax: (212) 682-0477; hq@aes.org; www.aes.org….
– October 27/Los Angeles: The IDA Awards. (310) 284-8422, ext. 26; fax: (310) 785-9334; idaawards@documentary.org….
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla SofÃa Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More