Roscoe is an aspiring documentary editor originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, now based in Brooklyn. Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design’s film program in 2020, he has built a career as an assistant and now associate editor for television and independent feature documentaries. He loves editing as an exercise in creative problem-solving: identifying potential within the material and refining it into a coherent story. His work is driven by a deep passion for research, creative collaboration, and finding community through art and storytelling. In his free time, he also explores animation, drawing, sewing, music, and even miniature making, all of which augment and inform his professional practice.

Alex Brown / CA

Alex Brown is a documentary filmmaker based out of Los Angeles, CA. She started her career in book publishing, after studying Creative Writing and Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara but eventually she found her true calling working in documentaries. Her work is aimed at harnessing the power of documentary to enact social change, and in that vein she has worked on grassroot political campaigns, created powerful work for underserved communities via a long term collaboration with the Goethe Institut Los Angeles, and is now co-directing a film about the water wars waged in a small rural California town. She also often works on documentaries as an editor, editing features such as “The Computer Accent” which premiered at CPH:DOX in 2022 and “Art & Science Collide” which was broadcast on PBS nationally. She is currently editing a documentary about the life and work of pop artist nun Sister Corita Kent. Alex is additionally the co-founder of Shadow Kitchen, a film collaborative and monthly screening series in Los Angeles.  

Aliyah Bryant / CA

I’m a Los Angeles–based documentary editor and associate editor with experience across documentary feature films and television series. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Film Editing & Sound Design, I’m passionate about character-driven nonfiction storytelling and collaborative editing processes. My recent work includes the Academy Award–nominated documentary feature Come See Me in the Good Light and the SXSW Audience Award winning Cookie Queens I’m particularly drawn to documentaries that balance emotional honesty and intimacy, with a dash of humor.

Pasha Gray / GA

 I’m an editor and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling that connects and resonates. I got my start on a friend’s music video, which led me to leave funeral school and fully pursue a career in film. After volunteering at post houses in Raleigh, NC, I landed my first role as a PA on Love It or List It, followed by my first assistant editor credit on PBS’s A Chef’s Life, where I discovered my love for documentary storytelling. Since then, I’ve worked across branded content, short films, and documentaries collaborating with brands like Delta x Tip Top, editing for Jemele Hill, and contributing to projects through Atlanta-based post house Straight To Tell. I’m also a member of Issa Rae’s Color Creative cohort. I’m driven by a desire to tell meaningful stories that challenge perspectives and leave a lasting impact.

Magdalena Hernández / IL

Magdalena Hernández (she/they) is a Colombian documentary and commercial editor based in Chicago. Her work is rooted in curiosity about people, identity, and the small moments that reveal something larger about how we move through the world. Their documentary credits include Broken Flight, Brewer, Stolen School, Memorial, and Silicone Soul. Her work has screened at Sundance, DocFest, Chicago International Film Festival, BlackStar Film Festival, Telluride Mountainfilm, and Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Magdalena is an editor at Cutters Studios, where she brings her documentary instincts to commercial work for brands including Nissan, Walmart, Modelo, and Ford. She holds degrees in cinema from DePaul University and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Their editing begins with attention: listening for the emotional rhythm in the footage and creating space for the story to reveal itself. Outside the edit suite, Magdalena is probably collaging, playing D&D, or tackling her endless film and TV watchlist.

Kaylee Kim / CA

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kaylee Kim is a Korean-American editor and filmmaker who holds a BFA from Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. She has worked as an editor and assistant editor for both short and feature-length documentaries. Her previous work includes “Black Outside,” which premiered on Prime Video and Apple TV, and “By Walking,” which premiered at the Nashville Film Festival. Her recent credits include the Netflix documentary “BTS: The Return” and the short documentary “Paving the Way,” which screened at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. She is currently working on an untitled feature documentary about a renowned Olympian while directing and editing her own film, “Umma’s Cut,” supported by the Kartemquin Films’ Zhao Chen AAPI Fund. Across her work, Kaylee values projects that amplify underrepresented voices and reveal humanity in everyday moments. 

Kristina Kim / NY

Kristina Kim was born and raised on Sakhalin Island, north of Japan, within a vibrant cultural crossroad of Russians, Koreans, Tatars, and the indigenous Ainu. Viewing her isolated origin as either the edge of the world or its beginning shaped her singular lens as an editor. Driven by this background, Kristina is drawn to compelling, intimate stories about outliers who relentlessly pursue their passions against all odds. She is a self-taught filmmaker with ten years of post-production experience in New York City, splitting her time between documentary freelancing and her role as the lead editor at Illumine Films, an indie production company based in Greenpoint that she co-owns with her partner. Her last project, Mr. Scorsese, in which she was an Associate Editor, premiered at the 2025 NYFF and won a 2026 Primetime Emmy.

Ana Maldonado / NY

Ana is a Colombian documentary filmmaker and film editor based in New York City. She moved to the United States in 2016. Her background continues to inform her interest in culturally meaningful stories. Ana is working toward a career creating feature-length films that explore Latin America, identity, history, and real-life stories. Her recent documentary credits include her work as an Associate Editor on They're Here (2026) and Cover-Up (2025), following earlier work as a Post-Production Assistant on the acclaimed documentaries Frida (2024) and Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022). Through these experiences, she has developed a strong editorial perspective and a deeper understanding of the collaborative process behind documentary filmmaking. Ana views cinema as a means of preserving experiences, opening conversations, and bringing visibility to stories that might otherwise remain unheard, with the goal of creating work that resonates with audiences and contributes a distinctive Latin American perspective to contemporary film.

Emily Malig / CA

Emily Malig (they/she) is an inquisitive and meticulous editor/assistant editor based in LA and the Bay Area. They grew up writing poems to understand the world and see documentary editing as an extension of their lifelong writing practice. Emily fell in love with editing after creating a short documentary about the mother of an intersex child while earning their BA in Film & Television Production at Loyola Marymount University. They examine underrepresented stories through a queer, feminist perspective that humanizes and empowers their characters. Emily has worked on shows such as Chef’s Table, Encounters, and Fit for TV on Netflix, plus the feature documentary Katseye: Wild Hearts. Outside of the edit room, Emily is an avid home-cook, contemporary dancer, fiber artist, and book club enthusiast.

Nancy Nguyen / CA

Nancy Nguyen is a documentary editor based in Los Angeles, California. She began her career editing stories centering Vietnamese American refugee experiences, including NEW WAVE (Criterion Channel, Tribeca) and IN LIVING MEMORY, part of the Daytime Emmy-nominated series Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond (PBS/WORLD Channel). Recently, she edited on SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN JOURNEYS, a shorts docuseries produced by Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) and Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Other credits include TRAVIS BARKER: LOUDER THAN FEAR (Hulu/Disney+) and HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY (Sundance). Currently, she is editing a feature documentary about Eaton fire survivors and community members who organized for the first-of-its-kind civil rights investigation into the botched emergency response in West Altadena, a historically redlined Black community. Nancy strives to tell stories with sensitivity, curiosity, and impact. In her free time, Nancy looks for lighthouses and a good dance floor.

Mohammed Rahman / NY

Mohammed Rahman is an editor from Queens. His recent editing work includes the feature documentary West Side Familia, which premiered at the 2026 BlackStar Film Festival. He has associate editing credits on Creede, U.S.A. (2025), Buried Truth: The Indrani Mukerjea Story (2024) as well as an additional editor credit on The Greatest Night in Pop (2024). He was a member of the 2023 cohort of Industry Standard's 9 month Post-Production residency program.

Bianca Rico / NY

Bianca Rico is a New York-based editor who loves working on provocative stories with humor and heart. She grew up in Berkeley, California, where she spent her teen years balancing existential anxiety with teaching art at summer camp, endlessly amused and impressed by her campers’ imaginations. As an adult, she worked as an assistant editor for years before co-editing the HBO series, Bring Me the Beauties, where she got to further process what goes on in the brains of young people with big questions. She recently co-edited a vérite feature about teen girls chasing their dreams, and is dead set on cutting a comedy in the near future. When she's not editing, she likes long walks with friends, jamming (badly) on the guitar, and building campfires.

Ingrid Roettgen / IL & MO

 Ingrid Roettgen (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker and editor with more than a decade of experience crafting indie nonfiction film. Some of her notable credits include the Oscar-nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, the Emmy-nominated We Are Witnesses: Chicago, and the Peabody winning Minding the Gap. She is a 2026-27 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow and was a 2025 True/False Film Festival Ringleader. She is a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors. A midwest native, Ingrid currently splits her time between Chicago, IL and St. Louis, MO.

Kelly C. Simpson  / MD

Kelly Simpson is a documentary Assistant Editor and storyteller from Baltimore, Maryland. East Coast raised and educated, she moved to California nearly two decades ago to pursue a career in entertainment, where she built a life working across documentary and unscripted television. Her creative perspective is shaped by a deep curiosity about people, culture, and emotionally honest storytelling. Recently returned to Baltimore, Kelly is excited to reconnect with family, roots, trees, and the next chapter of her creative life. Outside of post-production, she is a voracious consumer of stories in all forms and can usually be found cycling, singing karaoke, or planning a meal for the people she loves.

Parker Smeltzer / CA

Parker Smeltzer (she/her) is a documentary editor living and working in Los Angeles, California. She attended film school at Temple University in Philadelphia, where there was an intense focus on DIY filmmaking. After completing an internship and first gig as an assistant editor, she gained a strong desire to continue a career path that would lead to becoming an editor on feature documentaries. She has since worked on acclaimed documentaries such as The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2023) and The Bend in the River (2025). She continues to work on documentaries focused on telling unique and personal stories that challenge the traditional narratives told through documentary filmmaking. 

Alfonso Solis / NY

Alfonso Solis is an Mexican American editor based in New York City. With a background in visual anthropology, they are drawn to projects that help amplify people's voices and tell underrepresented stories. After working in video journalism for a number of years, they transitioned to working as an editor on feature documentaries. They previously worked as an associate editor on Lost in the Jungle, a documentary that premiered at Telluride and is now streaming on Disney+/Hulu. Recently they finished working as an editor on the docuseries, He Said She Said, set to stream on Paramount+ this fall and they are currently editing an untitled documentary around the forms of community resistance in response to ICE's mass detentions. 

Melissa Thompson / MD

Melissa Thompson has been editing for the past twenty years. She’s especially drawn to projects that use humor to tackle hard topics. She excels at shining up films with imperfect footage or uneven arcs. Her work includes the documentary shorts THE LAST RESORT about an all-immigrant retirement community; SHE GOT BALLS! about gentrification in South Philadelphia; the 16mm microdoc DASH, SNOWBOARDER, AGE 92; and HOME, DELIVERED (part of A-Doc's COVID STORIES series), as well as the LGBTQ feature MARRIED IN SPANDEX and countless social issue videos. A native of Atlanta, she maintains a love-hate relationship with the South, and currently lives in DC, where she is an active member of Women in Film and Video and a screener for DC/DOX.

Alex Albers / PA

Alex Albers is an experienced documentary editor whose work has screened on PBS, Fox Sports, Netflix, and Apple TV. Early career projects included Netflix’s MAKING OF A MURDERER, the Emmy-nominated Q BALL, and the Emmy-winning Netflix film, FIRE IN PARADISE. They served as Editor on COMPLICATED, a feature documentary that premiered at 2025 Slamdance. Most recently, they edited HUNKY JESUS, a feature documentary about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which premiered in London as the opening night film at BFI Flare. They are on the Board of cinéSPEAK, a Philadelphia art house cinema, and build community with filmmakers as an Organizer of the Philadelphia hub of The Video Consortium. They received their BA from Sarah Lawrence College with an area of focus in film production and LGBTQ+ studies. They've managed to merge those two surprisingly well with their work as a queer documentary filmmaker. Of note, they had the honor of working under Karen Schmeer 17 years ago on one of their very first jobs in the industry.

Roscoe Bernard / NY