Person
Laura Israel
Editing
Biography
Laura Israel cut her teeth editing award-winning commercials and music videos while still a film student at NYU. By the time she graduated she had formed her own editorial company, Assemblage. Her client list included: John Lurie, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Sonic Youth, New Order, Ziggy Marley, David Byrne, artists Laurie Simmons and Robert Frank. The films she edited with Frank have screened all over the world and won many awards. WINDFALL, her debut doc, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won top prize at Doc NYC. A NY Times Critics Pick, the paper dubbed it “Urgent, informative and artfully assembled”. WINDFALL is distributed by First Run Features, and Ms. Israel was named in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2011 “25 New Faces of Independent Film”.
Known for
Fishing with John
Editor
The Music of Regret
Editor
The King
Editor
Fearless Frank
Director
Souvenir
Editor
Windfall
Director
Defining Hope
Editor
I Remember
Editor
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Director
Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride
Supervising Editor
Filmography
- 2024Fearless FrankDirector
- 2024Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006Director
- 2024Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 1971Director
- 2024Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 FilmsEditor
- 2019Quakers: The Quiet RevolutionariesEditor
- 2018The KingEditor
- 2017Harry Smith at the Breslin HotelEditor
- 2017Defining HopeEditor
- 2017National DisintegrationsEditor
- 2015Don't Blink - Robert FrankDirector
- 2013Zipper: Coney Island's Last Wild RideSupervising Editor
- 2012WindfallDirector
- 2006The Music of RegretEditor
- 2005SanyuEditor
- 1998I RememberEditor
- 1996The PresentEditor
- 1996SouvenirEditor
- 1991Fishing with JohnEditor
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