Jason Zeldes (The Music of Strangers)

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Jason Zeldes is a documentary editor and director, best known for editing the 2013 Academy Award® winning film, “Twenty Feet From Stardom”. The film earned Zeldes an ACE Award for Best Edited Documentary Feature, and led to other exciting collaborations, including co-editing the 2015 Sundance Documentary “Racing Extinction”, HBO’S “The Music of Strangers”, and Netflix docu-series “Chelsea Does” and “Abstract: The Art of Design”. In 2014 Zeldes made his directorial debut, Romeo is Bleeding, which won top prizes at over 20 festivals including the San Francisco and Seattle International Film Festivals.





About the Film

Filmmaker: Morgan Neville
Runtime: 95 minutes

Synopsis:
From the director of the Oscar-winning documentary “20 Feet from Stardom” comes the extraordinary story of the renowned international musical collective, The Silk Road Ensemble, created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma.