Creative editorial house Final Cut has promoted Sophie Solomon from assistant editor to editor. Solomon has been with Final Cut for six years, getting her start in its New York office as vault manager. Soon after she began working as an assistant editor, honing her craft alongside mentors and friends including Rick Russell, Jeff Buchanan, Dan Sherwen, Patrick Colman, and Ed Chessman.
Solomon attended Barnard College at Columbia in Manhattan, where she majored in film studies. Throughout her four years of college she interned at production and post houses around the city, which laid a solid groundwork for her understanding of the industry. Her love for postproduction came out of a passion for the creative process and a realization that telling stories and collaborating with other creatives is inherent to the process in an edit room.
Solomon worked alongside Jim Helton at Final Cut to edit the internationally acclaimed New York Times campaign, “The Truth is Worth It,” made with Droga5 and directing duo Martin + Lindsay. The campaign garnered two Cannes Grand Prix awards and four Gold Lions, Best of Show at the One Club Annual ADC Award, Clio Gold, and a Black Pencil at D&AD, among many other accolades.
Solomon’s work for Kenzo Eyewear is a fun project that speaks directly to so many of her sensibilities when it comes to humor. Known for a certain campy aesthetic, combined with unwavering authenticity, she creates an effortless, modern narrative. Her work on the “Jaded” music video for Ms. White is an example of true collaboration–a labor of love that required all involved to be vulnerable and fully vested. Solomon has also edited for global brands such as Volkswagen, Target, Michelob Ultra, Comcast, Lincoln, and Fox Sports. Her work has earned her an award for Best Editing at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and a Telly, for the short film Don’t Go Back To Sleep.
“From the beginning of my time at Final Cut, I’ve had the privilege to learn from some of the best editors in the world, which I’ll never take for granted,” said Solomon. “I’ve found Final Cut to be a place that celebrates individuality and attracts people who hold craft in high regard. I’m honored to have found a home where my best work can shine because I work with people who care so deeply about our projects.”
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More