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| Jean Tsien counts more than two decades of experience in documentary film as editor, director and writer. Highlights include editing the Academy Award-nominated (for Best Documentary Feature) SCOTTSBORO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY and an Emmy nomination for Best Editing for MALCOLM X: MAKE IT PLAIN, which won the Peabodyand Christopher Awards. She also edited SOMETHING WITHIN ME, about an arts school in the South Bronx, which won the Audience Award, Filmmaker's Trophy and Special Jury Award for Merit at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. She produced LISTENING AT THE LUNCHEONETTE: IMMIGRATION GAME and co-wrote, edited and co-produced the Peabody-winning documentary TRAVIS, about a boy's fight with AIDS. She also served as ADR sound editor on both CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and LUST,CAUTION. Most recently, her film PLEASE VOTE FOR ME won the Silver Docs Sterling Award. (Magazine Gap Road press kit) |
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