![]() ![]() ![]() Gilman subsequently got his first job with Hartley. ![]() But Gilman’s pivotal experience came during his senior year, when director Hal Hartley came to teach and became his thesis advisor for a 16mm short film––edited on a Steenbeck. He taught himself everything he could about making DVDs while at the Center, which he found very important once he got to editing. Though the university’s strength was in documentary and he worked as an administrator under documentarian Robert Gardner at the school’s Film Studies Center, distributing its anthropological films, Gilman’s interest was in narrative. Gilman grew up in Wendall, Massachusetts, outside of Amherst (where he went to see movies), before majoring in film at Harvard. Following his unconventional path, this past year the 28-year-old served as assistant on three features––all of them due for release this year: Choke (September) and Blind Date (TBA), both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and Lake City (TBA), which had its first screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in April––as well as a documentary, James Castle: Portrait of an Artist. Assistant editor Kyle Gilman’s career path has forked in many directions, including a series of roads less traveled, as he works his way toward his first, inevitable, full editor position. ![]()
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