Christopher Tellefsen
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Music Department
Christopher Tellefsen was born in September 1957. In 1979 he attended
New York's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art but as a
student of photography and fine arts,becoming interested in
experimental film-making after taking classes with Bob Breere. Shortly
after graduation he was given a job assisting Ralph Rosenbloom cutting
an independent movie and later became apprentice to another renowned
editor Thelma Schoonmaker before,in 1990,taking his first job as a
cutter in his own right for Whit Stillman's 'Metropolitan.' Since then
he has not only achieved success in the field of editing (including an
Oscar nod for 2011's 'Moneyball') but has also served as curator of
Martin Scorsese's film archive.
