Ali Weiss Klingler | video editor, producer and writer

Faith & the Environment

Since early spring I’ve been editing videos for the Illinois Environmental Council about companies that promote conservation around the state. Here is the latest one, which profiles the eco-religious organization Faith in Place. I love the church sign about texting & driving!

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Beautiful Chicago…

In honor of our first real day of spring, here’s a quick montage of the City. I used found footage from the Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau and re-edited it as part of an in-house demo reel for SCREEN, theWit hotel’s private luxury screening room.

Emerald City Theatre Promo: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

I edited this promo for Emerald City Theatre’s current production of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! It was my first-ever opportunity to do a “follow the bouncing ball” effect for lyrics in Motion (starts at 2:05). It’ll take shock treatment to get the “Responsibility” song out of my …

Weddings at theWit!

I’m currently planning a wedding (mine, incidentally). So editing this Witisode was my chance to pack in all the information I know a bride wants. For a bride-to-be, no detail is extraneous. Last year I may have cut the details about capacity based on seating arrangement. This year I wake …

Emerald City Summer Camp Promo

Here is a video I edited for Emerald City Theater Company, to promote their summer camp for kids. The interview selects and their order had already been determined when I got the project, so my task here was just to go through hours of b-roll and add cutaways as well …

Witisode: Holidays in Chicago

This is part 1 of our December ‘Witisode’ for theWit Hotel, featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the Joffrey Ballet’s Nutcracker rehearsals, the Jim Henson and Christmas Tree exhibits at the Museum of Science and Industry, and a visit at Macy’s on State Street with the cast of Irving Berlin’s White …

The Twenty-Second Coming [48HFP, Chicago 2010] from Ali on Vimeo.

48 Hr Film Project: Awards Show

Two weekends ago I edited a video as part of the Chicago 48 Hour Film Project, and our team’s entry has been selected to appear in tonight’s “Best of the Best” awards show at Lincoln Hall. Details here. Our team is “The Guacamole Conspiracy.” UPDATE: All of the films were …

New Video – ROOF Live at the Wit Hotel

Here’s the latest Witisode I directed & edited for the Wit Hotel. Features local dance/cover band Your Villain My Hero.

Witisode: Spa at theWit

Jessica Zweig from Cheeky Chicago and I were selected as one of the Wit’s video teams to cover events at & around the hotel in a series of ‘Witisodes.’ Here’s our first video, featuring Spa at the Wit. I shot & edited as Jessica test drove the luxury services. We have a lot of …