“My Goal Is Always To Move People to Laughter or Tears”: Editor JoAnne Yarrow on The Persian Version
Leila (Layla Mohammadi), an Iranian-American girl, gathers with her family in New York City for her father’s heart transplant surgery in The Persian Version from writer-director Maryam Keshavarz. When a tightly-kept secret of hers is revealed, she grapples with the divided expectations from the two cultures she inhabits and comes to identify the parallels between her and her mother (Niousha Noor). Editor JoAnne Yarrow tells Filmmaker about inheriting the project after its initial assembly by Abolfazi Talooni, “softening” Leila’s character and the most difficult scene to cut. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why […]
The post “My Goal Is Always To Move People to Laughter or Tears”: Editor JoAnne Yarrow on The Persian Version first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “My Goal Is Always To Move People to Laughter or Tears”: Editor JoAnne Yarrow on The Persian Version first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“My Goal Is Always To Move People to Laughter or Tears”: Editor JoAnne Yarrow on The Persian Version
Leila (Layla Mohammadi), an Iranian-American girl, gathers with her family in New York City for her father’s heart transplant surgery in The Persian Version from writer-director Maryam Keshavarz. When a tightly-kept secret of hers is revealed, she grapples with the divided expectations from the two cultures she inhabits and comes to identify the parallels between her and her mother (Niousha Noor). Editor JoAnne Yarrow tells Filmmaker about inheriting the project after its initial assembly by Abolfazi Talooni, “softening” Leila’s character and the most difficult scene to cut. See all responses to our annual Sundance editor interviews here. Filmmaker: How and why […]
The post “My Goal Is Always To Move People to Laughter or Tears”: Editor JoAnne Yarrow on The Persian Version first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “My Goal Is Always To Move People to Laughter or Tears”: Editor JoAnne Yarrow on The Persian Version first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/27/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Five Days at Memorial, the grim tale about the disastrous events that took place at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, finished its eight-episode run today on Apple TV+. Here, executive producer Carlton Cuse, who adapted the series together with John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) from the nonfiction book by Sheri Fink, explains what it was like to chronicle the story of healthcare professionals like Dr. Anna Pou (Vera Farmiga) and incident commander Susan Mulderick (Cherry Jones), who faced overwhelming odds to save patients at Memorial Medical Center.
Deadline: It’s extraordinary how long this has been in the works, obviously starting with Scott Rudin acquiring the rights back in 2013. Why do you think it took so long?
Carlton Cuse: I believe it’s an incredibly compelling story but obviously not the easiest story to watch. I think that scared people away, and...
Deadline: It’s extraordinary how long this has been in the works, obviously starting with Scott Rudin acquiring the rights back in 2013. Why do you think it took so long?
Carlton Cuse: I believe it’s an incredibly compelling story but obviously not the easiest story to watch. I think that scared people away, and...
- 9/16/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
"The biggest misconception is that it isn't creative," film and television editor JoAnne Yarrow says about her craft. She's nominated for an Emmy for editing "Fan Fiction," the eighth episode of the first season of "Only Murders in the Building." And if she wins, she will be one of the rare Latinas in the entertainment industry to get that type of mainstream recognition. She approaches her craft intuitively, telling Popsugar it's about capturing the emotion for her. "I go based on my gut . . . it's truly a feeling for me. I really edit from the heart," she says. "I want to infuse whatever I'm working on with emotion. I want people to care. I want them to be invested. And so, I feel like my approach is to come at it in the same way."
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- 8/25/2022
- by Cristina Escobar
- Popsugar.com
Nathan Lane just made Primetime Emmy Awards history with his record sixth Best Comedy Guest Actor nomination, for “Only Murders in the Building, and now has a total of seven bids, but these marks just mean one thing for the three-time Tony winner. “I’m old,” Lane deadpanned to Gold Derby (watch above). “It means I’ve gotten very old, older than I’ve ever wanted to be. It’s a lovely thing. I mean, it sounds impressive until you actually realize I haven’t actually won. But it’s nice to be invited to the party and be part of the conversation for sure. It has a lot to do with the quality of the show, of ‘Only Murders in the Building.'”
Lane plays Teddy Dimas, deli king of the Upper West Side and a former producer of Oliver’s (Martin Short) ill-conceived theater productions, who agrees to...
Lane plays Teddy Dimas, deli king of the Upper West Side and a former producer of Oliver’s (Martin Short) ill-conceived theater productions, who agrees to...
- 7/28/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
JoAnne Yarrow was deep into work when she found out that she had received an Emmy nomination — her first — for editing “Only Murders in the Building.” “All of the sudden I started getting a bunch of text messages and I was sort of silent. And I turned my phone to my coworker and she read them,” Yarrow recalled to Gold Derby (watch above). “She was the one that was expressive and screaming and I was just kind of in shock. So that’s how I found out and then she screamed, ‘Call your husband!’ Later, there was somebody down the hall that was like, ‘What happened? You had to call your husband about something.'”
One of three editors who worked on the first season of the Hulu murder mystery comedy, along with Julie Monroe, who also scored a nomination, and Matthew Barbato, Yarrow edited a trio of episodes: “Who Is Tim Kono?...
One of three editors who worked on the first season of the Hulu murder mystery comedy, along with Julie Monroe, who also scored a nomination, and Matthew Barbato, Yarrow edited a trio of episodes: “Who Is Tim Kono?...
- 7/22/2022
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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