2018 Season

OLD FRIENDS A film by Peter Odabashian

August 3, 2018

Old Friends is a documentary about friendship, depression, falling in love, getting older, and finding happiness.
It’s a film about what matters.

All tickets are $10 at the door.
The showing will be followed by a talk-back with the director.

Peter Odabashian is an Emmy award winning editor. He has edited more than 22 documentaries and has been a sound editor on over 17 feature films from REDS to Carlito’s Way. In 1984, he won a Golden Reel Award for best feature sound editing for the film Places In The Heart. In 1987, he cut his first feature-length documentary, The Beat Generation, an official selection of the Berlin Film Festival. From 1988 to 1992 he edited five films for producer Irv Drasnin, including a portrait of Father Coughlin, The Radio Priest, and an unusual history of the great American pastime, Forever Baseball. He worked with Andy Kolker and Louis Alvarez for the first time in 1996 on the Peabody and Columbia-DuPont winning documentary, Vote for Me, and won an editing Emmy for his efforts. In 1997, he cut America in the 40’s, the first non-fiction musical documentary, for Tom Spain and in 1998 he returned to The Center for New American Media to work on four more documentaries, MOMS, People Like Us, Sex: Female, and Small Ball.

Peter became a producer/director in 2004 and went on to share credits with Andy and Louis on The Anti-Americans and You Got To Swing. In 2013 he completed Getting Back To Abnormal with them and Paul Stekler, and that film became an official selection of SXSW and was featured on the PBS series, POV.

Old Friends is Peter’s first solo effort in over 40 years of filmmaking, and he hopes it’s the first of many.

View the trailer here.