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The Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship has been established to honor the memory and spirit of Karen. The year-long experience encourages and champions the talent of an emerging editor. The fellowship provides opportunities to help cultivate an editor’s artistry and craft and to expand his or her professional and creative community. Tax-deductible contributions can be made out and sent to: Make an online tax-deductible contribution through the American Cinema Editors society or make a check out to "ACE Educational Center" and send it to: ACE Educational Center Important: In the memo line, please write Please check with your company to see if they have a donation matching program. To join the Fellowship mailing list, email info@karenschmeer.com. More details will be available in the coming weeks.
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Karen was a brilliant and admired film editor who worked on some of the most acclaimed documentaries of recent years. She edited Errol Morris’ “Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control,” “Mr. Death,” and the Academy-Award winning “The Fog of War.” She was the editor on Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson’s “Well Founded Fear,” Robb Moss’ “The Same River Twice,” and the fiction feature, “American Son,” all of which had their World Premieres at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2009, she won the Sundance Film Festival Best Editing award for her work on Greg Barker’s “Sergio,” and in 2002, she won the Best Editing award at the Slamdance Film Festival for Lucia Small’s “My Father, the Genius.” She also edited “Theme: Murder,” “American Experience: A Brilliant Madness,” and Sydney Pollack’s “Sketches of Frank Gehry.” Karen was working on a documentary about chess champion Bobby Fischer, directed by Liz Garbus, when she was killed in a hit-and-run car accident in Manhattan on January 29, 2010. She was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Boston University with a degree in anthropology. She loved dogs, books and making pies. |
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