By Jennifer Miller and Gabriel Rhodes
October 15, 2024
Girls State follows 500 adolescent girls from all across Missouri as they come together for a week-long immersion in a sophisticated democratic laboratory, where they organize a Supreme Court to consider the most contentious issues of the day. The film won Best Directing and Best Cinematography at this year’s Emmy Awards.
Amy Foote is an Emmy Award–winning documentary editor based in Brooklyn. Some of her editing credits include Laura Poitras’s most recent film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Neon/HBO), Golden Lion Venice Film Festival; Father Soldier Son (Netflix/New York Times, Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award for Best Editing, News and Documentary Emmy for Best Editing, Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Sound); Hail Satan? (Magnolia); The Work (Grierson Awards for Best Single Documentary and Best International Documentary, Grand Jury Prize SXSW 2017, Gotham Award nominated for Best Documentary); Peabody award–winning Mavis! (HBO); Fauci (Nat Geo/Disney Plus); the Emmy-nominated and James Beard Award–winning film, A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (HBO, BBC); For Once in My Life, (PBS Independent Lens, SXSW Audience Award 2010, IDA Best Music Documentary); and the Emmy-nominated film, Finishing Heaven (HBO). She lives in Sunset Park with her wife and daughter and has been a coop member for nearly 23 years!
Peter Bowman is a documentary editor from North Carolina. He was an additional editor on Girls State and has worked on features and series for Netflix, PBS, and Facebook Watch. He joined the Coop last year.
This documentary will be screened by Zoom on Thursday, October 24th at 7pm.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82073135562
Meeting ID: 82073135562
Editor Amy Foote will be present for a Q+A after the screening.
To be added to our email listserv for future screening announcements, please send a request to jlymiller@me.com
Jennifer Miller and Gabriel Rhodes live in Brooklyn and have been coop members for 20 years plus.