Sarah Flack

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Sarah Flack is an American film editor. She frequently worked with American independent film directors Steven Soderbergh ( Schizopolis , The Limey , Full Frontal ) and Sofia Coppola ( Lost in Translation , Marie Antoinette , Somewhere, The Bling Ring, The Beguiled, On the Rocks ). Flack's work on Lost in Translation won her the BAFTA Award for Best Editing. The film went on to win numerous other awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film. She won a Primetime Emmy Award and an American Cinema Editors Eddie award with Robert Pulcini for co-editing the HBO film "Cinema Verite".

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Flack began her career working as a production assistant on the film Kafka where she first met film director Steven Soderbergh. After assistant editing on a handful of other independent films, Flack was hired by Soderbergh to edit his self-financed experimental film, Schizopolis . [1] She is represented by International Creative Management.

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References

  1. Sarah Flack IMDB listing
  2. Awards for Cinema Verite
  3. "O.F.C.S.: The Online Film Critics Society". Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-04-28.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by BAFTA Award for Best Editing
for Lost in Translation

2003
Succeeded by