Q&A with Producer Claire Edelman, Editor Matt Hixon, and Subject Joey Carducci
Moderated by filmmaker/poet Lynne Sachs
Sunday, September 13
5:30
Claire Edelman is a producer at Killer Films, the NY-based powerhouse production company co-founded by Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler in 1995 (PAST LIVES, MAY DECEMBER, MILDRED PIERCE). Claire is responsible for overseeing the production and development slate for all TV projects at Killer, as well as a select group of film projects. Previously, she worked across film and TV at Animal Kingdom, where she associate produced Mariama Diallo’s first feature, MASTER, for Amazon, and Adam Leon’s film ITALIAN STUDIES for Magnolia, and developed a number of film and episodic projects.
Matt Hixon (he/him) is a New York-based editor. His recent work includes the Venice Golden Lion winner and Oscar®-nominated ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (2022), on which he was an associate editor, and GIRLS STATE (Emmy winning, Sundance 2024). He also edited Brydie O’Connor’s short Love, Barbara (2022), which premiered at Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury prize at Outfest. He also works in narrative film and music videos.
Joey Carducci’s handmade films expose the materiality and the process of queer experimental 16mm filmmaking to create awareness and resistance in content and form. His first 16mm film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2003, and the Museum of Modern Art premiered his collaboration with Barbara Hammer (Generations, 2010), which won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. His films have screened internationally in festivals and museums by invitation, including Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, and Tate Modern, among others. With 20 years of professional experience specializing in 16mm film, Joey has worked at some of the best preservation labs in the country, from Monaco Labs, to Cineric, to Cinema Arts, and The Standby Program. He has also worked as an adjunct film instructor teaching 16mm filmmaking courses, independent studies, and workshops. He and filmmaker Angelo Madsen co-curate an ongoing, quarterly trans film series, The Cinema of Gender Transgression, inaugurated in 2017 at Anthology Film Archives, with an upcoming series October 8-11, 2026. Photo by Sela Shiloni.