Peter Odabashian

Peter Odabashian has worked in film for over 40 years. From 1980 to 1993, he worked as a sound editor on films directed by Sidney Lumet, Brian De Palma, Warren Beatty, Spike Lee, Paul Newman and many others. In 1984, he was awarded the Motion Picture Sound Editors Award for Robert Benton's Places In The Heart. He began working on documentaries in 1988 and has edited more than 20 docs that have appeared on PBS and film festivals in the U.S. and abroad. In 1996, he won an Emmy award for best documentary editing for Vote For Me, and that began his relationship with Andy Kolker, Louis Alvarez, and Paul Stekler. Since then, he has edited and been a co-producer of 4 more documentaries with Andy and Louis, and co-directed THE Anti-Americans, You Got To Have Swing, and Getting Back To Abnormal with them. Odabashian started working for himself in 2014 and his first solo film, Old Friends, was selected to be part of the DOC NYC 2015 film festival. His new documentary, Somewhere To Be, is the funny and moving story of an unusual senior center for idiosyncratic New Yorkers.