Boston Avid Users Group - BAVUG Meetings

BAVUG Meeting Archive - September 13, 2006

DOCUMENTARY DISCUSSION
Future Media Concepts
43 Thorndike St.
Cambridge, MA 02141

The BAVUG would like to thank our presenters and Future Media Concepts for hosting the event.

Schedule of Events:
6:30pm - 7:00pm | Registration & Networking

7:00pm - 8:00pm | Franco Sacchi - HDV documentary discussion

Franco Sacchi is a Freelance Editor/Producer and senior Avid Instructor. He worked for over six years in the Department of Educational Services at Avid Technology. While at Avid, he contributed to developing the Avid Certified Instructor Program, taught hundreds of classes, and conducted Train the Trainer courses to certify new Avid Instructors. Clients included ABC 20/20, NBC Dateline, Telemundo, RAI (Italian National Public Television), and many others.

As a speaker, Franco has conducted seminars at NAB in Las Vegas and at the DV Show in New York. Franco collaborates on an ongoing basis with two news magazines of RAI International (the international branch of Italian Public Television) as a broadcast journalist/producer. Franco co-directed, produced, and edited, American Eunuchs, a feature length documentary aired in 2004 on the Sundance Channel and on Channel 5 in the UK and shown at several national and international film festivals, including the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA). He graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Bologna and earned an M.A. in Visual Arts from Emerson College.

8:00pm - 9:00pm | Steve Audette - Editing Frontline

Steve Audette has been a film and video editor for 15 years. As Senior Editor for the PBS series Frontline, he is responsible for cutting three hour-long documentaries per season. In addition, he works as a relief editor, under the supervision of the Frontline Executive Producers, on programs that are failing in direction or story, or that don't meet the Frontline Emmy and Peabody award- winning standards.

Steve's work has contributed to many Emmy Award- winning documentaries, as well as numerous Peabody and DuPont Colulmbia Award-winning programs. As a designer Steve oversees all broadcast promotional materials and edits long-form trailers for special programs. His trailers have received highest awards both at PBS and at PROMAX. When Frontline is out of season, he edits local independent feature films and serves as Post Production Consultant.

9:00 p.m. | Raffle

Avid user Mike Chapman was the grand prize winner of the Avid Xpress DV software donated by Avid Technology, Inc.

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