Academy Award-winning editor William Goldenberg made his return to Philadelphia to help promote his debut as a director. The filmmaker, who once studied here at Temple University, premiered his latest film “Unstoppable” at the 33rd annual Philadelphia Film Festival.
“I’m just really happy to be here,” Goldenberg said.
Goldenberg graduated from Temple in 1982 and has since gained more than 20 film and TV credits.
He won an Academy Award for best film editor for Argo along with nominations for several others such as The Insider, Seabiscuit, and Zero Dark Thirty.
“I learned to love editing as a senior at Temple,” Goldenberg said. “I had a class called experimental video editing, and the teacher saw something I edited, and was incredibly complimentary about it, and I thought, oh my gosh someone has given me encouragement in some place in the arts. And I loved it and so I pursued that and now I obviously turned to directing.”
This premiere was also an inspiring moment for many other Temple students who were in the same Media Arts program, who see Goldenbergs’ journey as a path they also can follow.
“It’s just very very honorable to be a part of an alumni group with somebody like him who has that background, who has that level of expertise, and is within that field that even I’m a fan of, and want to work professionally in as well,” Temple Film and Media Arts alum Kyle Joseph Fleck said.
Temple has greatly impacted Goldenbergs’ career, as it has for many other students.
“I learned a lot at Temple, film theory, story editing, and it was an incredible experience for me with lessons I carry with me to this day,” Goldenberg said.
This premiere wasn’t just a celebration of Unstoppable, but a reminder of how Temple’s impact extends beyond the classroom and into Hollywood.
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