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Frederick Shanahan

History

Frederick is an award-winning film editor based in New York City. He won Best Editing at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival for his work on the feature documentary When Lambs Become Lions. His feature work also includes The Birth of Sake, which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on PBS POV in 2016; From This Day Forward, which premiered at the 2015 Full Frame Film Festival and aired on PBS POV in 2016; The Search for General Tso, which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival; and The City Dark, which premiered at SXSW in 2011 and was nominated for an Emmy in 2013. Frederick also has extensive TV experience, which includes work on the Netflix Original Series Salt Fat Acid Heat, the National Geographic Original Series Year Million, the CNN Original Series Death Row Stories, the A&E Original Series The Killing Season, and the Netflix Original Series Cooked, which premiered at Berlinale in 2016. He graduated from the Boston University College of Communication, magna cum laude, with a B.S. in Film and Television.

Movies

The Emoji Story

The Emoji Story

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Emojis are a worldwide phenomenon, with some arguing that these smiling poops and heart-eyed faces are on the verge of actually becoming their own language. Who, if anyone, is in charge of this new global digital language?

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The stranger-than-fiction story of a French film producer and her mafioso-turned-actor husband who attempt to turn a tiny town into the “Sundance of the East.”

The Search for General Tso

The Search for General Tso

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From New York City to the farmlands of the Midwest, there are 50,000 Chinese restaurants in the U.S., yet one dish in particular has conquered the American culinary landscape with a force befitting its military moniker—“General Tso’s Chicken.” But who was General Tso and how did this dish become so ubiquitous? Ian Cheney’s delightfully insightful documentary charts the history of Chinese Americans through the surprising origins of this sticky, sweet, just-spicy-enough dish that we’ve adopted as our own.

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The future was now at the 1939 World’s Fair – and it is still awesome. From the perspective of the 21st century, it’s hard to imagine what a marvel the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair would have been to its visitors. Still living in the heavy shadow of the stock market crash of 1929, the many people who flocked to the big exhibition found not only bounteous luxuries such as free Coca-Cola, but the unveiling of unthinkable new technologies that promised that a better world lay ahead. Using sparkling, rare, colour film footage – itself a brand-new technology at the time – the US director Amanda Murray mines the memories of several people who attended the New York World’s Fair in 1939.