Director

Laura Israel

Editing

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Directed credits

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Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

1.7

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Directed movies: 4Directed series: 0All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 910578

IMDb ID: nm0411468

Known for: Editing

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2024

Years active: 34

Average TMDB rating: 7.02

Wikidata: Q19816293

Frequent jobs

Director (4)Editor (10)Supervising Editor (1)

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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”.

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