Doug Abel - Resume

(= Award Winner or Festival Selection)

 

THEATRICAL/FEATURES

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) - (co-editor) Feature documentary directed by Jason Kohn. Grand Jury Prize at 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Official Site

The Fog of War - (co-editor) Feature documentary directed by Errol Morris. Winner of 2004 Academy Award for best documentary. Nominated for an American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddy award. Screened at 2003 Cannes, Telluride film festivals. Centerpiece of the New York Film Festival. Official Site

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - (co -editor) Feature documentary directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Official Site or Trailer (which I also edited)

American Cannibal - (supervising editor) - Feature doc directed by Michael Nigro and Perry Grebin. Premiere in 2006 at Tribeca Film Festival, theatrical release in March 2007.

Pootie Tang - Comedy feature directed by Louis C.K., with Chris Rock, Robert Vaughn, Jennifer Coolidge. July 2001 release by Paramount Pictures. Quicktime Trailer

Six Ways to Sunday - Feature directed by Adam Bernstein, with Norman Reedus, Debbie Harry and Isaac Hayes. David Collins, Mike Naughton, producers. Deauville, Vancouver, GenArt, Seattle Film Festivals. March 1999 release by Stratosphere Entertainment. View a QUICKTIME clip.  New York Times Review

Tomorrow Night - Feature directed and produced by stand-up comedian Louie C.K. Featured at Sundance, South by Southwest, Taos Film Festivals. View a QUICKTIME clip.   Sundance Review   Variety Review

Cry Baby Lane - Nickelodeon Movie of the Week, airing Fall 2000. Peter Lauer, director. Jerry Kupfer, Bob Mittenthal, producers.

 

TELEVISION SERIES - ENTIRE SEASON

30 Rock - NBC Comedy with Tina Fey & Alec Baldwin. 2006-7 Official Site

Insomniac with Dave Attell- several seasons of Comedy Central show. Official Site

TV Funhouse - 7 episodes of a 9-episode series on Comedy Central. Winter 2000-2001.

Strangers With Candy - 7 episodes of a 10-episode series on Comedy Central. Winter-Spring 1999. View a QUICKTIME clip.

The High Life - 5 episodes of a 7-episode narrative comedy series produced by David Letterman for HBO. Spring-summer '96.

The Dana Carvey Show - 8-episode sketch comedy show for ABC. Spring '96.   View a QUICKTIME clip.

The Adventures of Pete & Pete - 10-episode children's series on Nickelodeon. Summer-Winter 95. Unofficial Web site

Hardcore TV (co-editor) 8-episode narrative comedy series for HBO. Spring '94

 

TELEVISION - INDIVIDUAL EPISODES

Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days (co-editor) - cut the pilot about a Chiristian guy from West Virginia living in a Muslim community. Episode was subsequently edited down to network length by somebody else.

Errol Morris' First Person - Documentary series for Bravo and Channel 4 (UK). Voted one of the best TV shows of 2000 by TIME MAGAZINE. View a QUICKTIME clip. Errol's Site

The Rosie O'Donnell Show - Occasional remote pieces. 1996 - 98

Remember WENN - Six episodes of half-hour narrative comedy on AMC network.

Pulp Comics - Four episodes of Comedy Central series. Robert Small Entertainment.

Comics Come Home 3 and 4 - Stand-up comedy benefits aired on Comedy Central on New Year's Eve of 1998 and 1999. Robert Small Entertainment.

The Speed of Life - Pilot for ABC. Walt Disney Productions. Spring '97.

 

DOCUMENTARY

The Awful Truth (co-editor) - Michael Moore's Emmy-nominated series on Bravo in the US and Channel Four in the UK.View a QUICKTIME clip. Official Web Site

2002 Academy Awards Opening Film - 4 minute film directed by Errol Morris. View a quicktime clip

Building the Empire State - 1 hour documentary for Discovery Channel. View a QUICKTIME clip.

Real Sex: Two segments for the HBO series.

Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (co-editor) HBO doc. about crack addiction in Lowell, Mass. John Alpert, dir.

Media Matters (co-editor) Pilot PBS program critiquing the news media.

WHATEVER

Sesame Street Short Films

Glen Miller's Greatest Hits (co-editor) 1 hour PBS documentary.

Popeye's Fried Chicken - 6 national spots. Hill, Holiday/Altschiller. Feb. '98    View a QUICKTIME clip.

Concert rear-projection films/long-form videos - REM's 1995 World Tour and The Tragically Hip's Canadian tour. Winter '94/5.

Press kits for reggae artists Ziggy Marley and Snow, and numerous other artists from Warner and Elektra Records. '93-'95.

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