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Whitehouse Post Los Angeles Welcomes Dynamic Editor Autumn Dea to the Roster

A rising star with a multitude of experience, Autumn joins Whitehouse after establishing herself as a successful long form editor. In 2019, Dea was an Assistant Editor on Black Is King, Beyonce’s 85-minute elaborate visual album nominated for Best Music Film at the 2021 GRAMMY Awards. Following that, she edited the feature film Shithouse directed by Cooper Raiff, which won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at SXSW 2020 and was chosen as one of the top 10 films of the year by Vanity Fair Magazine. In 2018, Autumn was one of four editors selected in the competitive Film Independent Project Involve Fellowship. Her work in television has also received accolades including an Emmy for The Future of America’s Past for PBS, and inclusion in the Tribeca Film Festival for the documentary feature The Death of My Two Fathers…

Vanity Fair 10 Best Films of 2020

This little movie was set to debut at SXSW and probably would have made quite a splash there, had COVID’s own brand of cancel culture not come calling. My hope is that people will still find the film despite the muted fanfare. Director, writer, and star Cooper Raiff’s college-set slice of life is an auspicious debut, a small and talky pleasure that illustrates the timid confusion of adolescence—or one small part of it—in sensitive, thoughtful terms. Raiff plays a college freshman lost in his loneliness; he’s homesick and can’t figure out how to engage with the people he’s been suddenly plopped into an existence alongside…

‘Shithouse’ wins Grand Jury Award at SXSW 2020

Normally, the SXSW Film Festival award winners are handed out during a lively ceremony at the end of the first weekend, but this year required some improvisation. When the SXSW became the first major film event to cancel in the face of global pandemic, it was unclear what would happen to the hundreds of films and filmmakers primed for the late March festivities.

While many filmmakers were left struggling to figure out their next moves, the festival’s leadership opted to hand out awards to the films set to premiere at the festival, with the juries announced weeks earlier. SXSW Director of Film Janet Pierson and her team made the decision to “continue and expand to all the juried competitions, if the majority of the filmmakers opted in and juries were available.” (For obvious reasons, there were no Audience Awards this year.)…