Some of our clients include: MTV, PBS, HBO, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, Augenblick Studios, PFFR, iNEXTV, The Greene County Council on the Arts, The Athens Cultural Center and The Olana Partnership. |
In 2001, Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas formed Thin Edge Films LLC to begin production on the documentary, "Freeing Silvia Baraldini" and to make films that speak thematically to social injustice and celebrate under explored subject matter. Originally based in the Arts Center in Jersey City, NJ, the company moved its production offices to Athens, NY in the spring of 2002. In 2009, the company re-opened a second office, again in Jersey City, in the Journal Square neighborhood. Thin Edge Films has conducted shoots from Rome, Italy to San Francisco, CA and throughout the greater New York area.
 Lisa Thomas has been working in film and television since graduating from Evergreen State College in 1994. Currently, Lisa is the Supervising Producer on Comedy Central’s hit, animated series, “Ugly Americans”. Lisa was also the Supervising Producer for the Adult Swim animated series, Xavier: Renegade Angel. She was the Media Producer on the cult MTV series, “Wonder Showzen”; produced the independent feature length documentary, “Sid Bernstein Presents” and helped produce the short film, “My Empire” which screened at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Lisa was the production coordinator on the Sony BMG & Nuyorican Productions film, “Feel the Noise” and worked as the wardrobe coordinator for the acclaimed PBS series, “Slavery and the Making of America.” Lisa produced the documentary, “Beyond Boundaries” about the ill effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexico and directed the short film, “Going to the Movies.” She has worked for HBO, Disney, PBS, NBC, Turner Network, MTV & Maysles Films. Lisa’s fluency in Italian was essential in obtaining the Italian interviews for the documentary, “Freeing Silvia Baraldini.” |
As a filmmaker, Margo produced and directed, “Cast to the Wind”(2007) a short film contrasting Zimbabwe’s winning of Independence from British Rhodesia with current day statistics revealing Zimbabwe’s downfall. Her short film, Out of Service”(2003) was screened in the Hudson County Short Film Festival. Margo was the editor for the avant-garde short, “The Universe” by Barry Gerson, which screened at the 2009 New York Film Festival. Margo produced two live, public programs for the LGBT Center in NYC: “Celibacy, Our Choice or Not” in 1996 and “Post Queer” in 1997. Before working in film, Margo spent twenty years as an award winning fine artist showing her artwork in museums and galleries in the greater New York area. Margo’s fine art is in the collections of The Library of Congress, The Elizabeth Foundation and The Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and has been published in “Art in America”, “Sculpture”, and “ArtNews”. Margo received her BFA from the Cooper Union of Science and Art in NYC. She attended the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard and the Institute of Audio Research studying sound. In 2000, Margo attended IFU, the first International Frauen Universitat in Hamburg, Germany in the Information division where she studied global communications. 