There’s no question that the Broadway Screening Room in midtown
Manhattan is one of the most comfortable places to see a screening.
It’s also now one of the most accommodating for editors. That’s because
when he and a partner bought the Brill Building jewel two and a half
years ago, Eitan Hakami, owner of Postproduction Playground, patched
his Avid Meridians directly into the plush room. And cutters like
Stephanie Sterner, who had 12 weeks to edit the Sundance entrant The
Best Thief in the World, could not only adjust the edit prior to the
screening, she could play the film right into the room off a Sony XPRI.
Sterner had worked on the film for 12 weeks, accessing 40 hours of
uncompressed video acquired on Sony IMX. The room also serves as a live
color-correction theater where DPs and directors can watch grading
happen live.