Adobe Creative Cloud Editor Kyle Patrick Alvarez—Someone to Watch

Creative Layers by Sur Garibaldi

Los Angeles-based writer/director Kyle Patrick Alvarez premiered his second feature film—C.O.G., based on a David Sedaris short story—in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Starring Jonathan Groff, Denis O’Hare and Corey Stoll, it will be released this fall through Focus Features and Screen Media.

Kyle graduated cum laude from the University of Miami in 2005 with degrees in motion picture production and English literature and made his writing/directorial debut in 2010 with Easier with Practice. The film won him the “Someone to Watch” award at the Independent Spirit Awards and was nominated for a “Best First Feature” Spirit Award.

Speaking tomorrow at Adobe’s Los Angeles Create Now event, Kyle speaks here about his editing pseudonym, the value of Video On Demand and how, in recent years, his choice of reading materials has narrowed.

Now that you’ve had a film screened at Sundance, what’s next on your bucket list? I’m working on a new film that we’re in the process of casting and hope to shoot early next year. I can’t talk much about it yet, but I’ve been involved with it for a while and it’s much more ambitious and challenging than anything I’ve ever done.

What would you say is the potential value of Creative Cloud for filmmakers (not just for post-production but for creating collateral materials)? I think the breadth of software is what can really help filmmakers. At its core is Premiere Pro CC, an excellent non-linear editor, but with the subscription cost of that you’re also getting access to an insane amount of software that can help build materials for a movie’s premier. read more...