2026-2027 MENTORS
Rebecca Adorno Dávila
Rebecca Adorno Dávila is an award-winning video editor and artist from Puerto Rico. She specializes in creating immersive non-fiction narratives with archival and fly-on-the-wall footage, while also exploring fiction film and music video editing. She won the 2021 Jonathan Oppenheim Documentary Editing Award at Sundance Film Festival for her work on the documentary Homeroom and the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival award for Best Editing in a Documentary Feature for Jean-Michel Basquiat. She has earned nominations for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing, Cinema Eye Honors’ Outstanding Achievement in Editing award and IDA’s Best Editing Award. She has also been included in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Doc NYC’s 40 under 40 and Berlinale Talents.
Michelle Mizner, ACE
Michelle Mizner is an Academy and Emmy award-winning documentary film editor and producer. She has been on staff at FRONTLINE PBS for over a decade where her work has spanned many storytelling forms. Films and projects Michelle has cut and produced have broadcast internationally, screened at festivals including Sundance, SXSW, DOC NYC and CPH:DOX, and have been awarded by the Peabodys, World Press Photo, Overseas Press Club, Edward R. Murrow Awards and the duPont-Columbia Awards. In addition to films, she has produced podcasts and multiple acclaimed interactive documentaries, including Inheritance (2016), The Last Generation (2018), and Un(re)solved (2021). All three earned Emmys for Outstanding New Approaches in Documentary. Most recently, Michelle produced and edited Mstyslav Chernov’s Sundance-winning and BAFTA nominated feature documentary 2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA. Prior to that, she produced and edited Chernov’s first feature documentary, 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award. For her editing, Michelle was nominated for an ACE Eddie and Cinema Eye Honor award, and won a British Film Editors award. Later, the film was nominated in two categories for the BAFTAs, winning in Documentary Feature, and won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. She is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA, Producers Guild of America and American Cinema Editors.
Daniela I. Quiroz
Daniela I. Quiroz is an Emmy award-winning film editor whose work centers on amplifying the lived experiences of underrepresented communities through a social justice lens. The last film Daniela edited, "baby/girls", premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in early 2026. In 2024, Quiroz edited "The Strike" (PBS), an Emmy award-winning documentary on incarcerated men who coordinated a nationwide hunger strike while held in solitary confinement. Her editing style helped center their voices with humanity and care. In 2023, she received The Sundance Film Festival’s prestigious Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award for "Going Varsity in Mariachi" (Netflix), which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition. The film follows high school students in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley as they navigate intense Mariachi competitions, capturing teen life along the border with energy and intimacy. Daniela’s editing evokes the layered, rhythmic nature of Mariachi music itself: immersive, vibrant, and emotionally resonant. Quiroz began her television editing career at VICE on HBO and VICE News Tonight, where she cut dozens of short documentaries, including "Goodbye Congress "with Alexandra Pelosi. Her first credited feature, "Rebel Citizen" (2015), premiered at the New York Film Festival and explores the social justice legacy of cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Daniela spends her free time brewing beer and playing fetch with her rescue dog, Kobe.
Mikaela Shwer
Mikaela is an award-winning documentary editor and filmmaker. Her directorial debut, Don’t Tell Anyone/No Le Digas a Nadie (PBS/POV), earned the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, and her follow-up, The Kids Are Not Alright, made waves on the festival circuit, collecting multiple Audience and Director awards. Her editing collaborations include projects for Netflix, HBO, PBS, Hulu, and Apple TV. She served as editor, writer, and co-producer on HBO’s Allen v. Farrow, a four-part series that received seven Primetime Emmy nominations along with nominations from American Cinema Editors and Cinema Eye Honors. Her recent credits include editing on Netflix’s record-breaking Harry & Meghan, HBO’s Last Call, praised for its empathy and nuance; and Netflix’s Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, where she served as lead editor and story producer, earning recognition for its focus on the victims and the systemic failures surrounding their cases. She is currently an editor and consulting producer on the Untitled Barbra Streisand documentary directed by Frank Marshall. Mikaela is also engaged in investigative and socially conscious storytelling. She is an Associate of the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and has been recognized as a fellow by the Logan Nonfiction Program, the Film Independent Documentary Lab, and the Dart Center Documentary Film Fellowship.
Jeremy Stulberg, ACE
Jeremy Stulberg, ACE is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor whose work spans feature documentaries, television series, and social-issue films. His latest editing work, Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story, is currently streaming on HBO. The film traces the rise of a boundary-pushing, sex-positive cable-access pioneer who became an accidental AIDS-era lifeline and First Amendment fighter. Previously, Jeremy edited Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, directed by Elegance Bratton and produced by Roger Ross Williams, which premiered at Sundance 2025. He wrote and edited Sabbath Queen, executive produced by Darren Aronofsky and directed by Sandi Simcha Dubowski. Filmed over 20 years, the film follows a queer activist rabbi reinventing Judaism in a rapidly changing world. After premiering at Tribeca, Sabbath Queen received multiple festival awards, a theatrical release, and was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick. Jeremy is a Sundance Documentary Fellow and has received support from the Sundance Documentary Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, Tribeca Film Institute, ITVS, and others. His additional credits include consulting editor on Laura Poitras’s Terror Contagion (Cannes, Academy Award shortlist); producing and editing Growing Up Coy (Netflix); and directing, producing, and editing Broken Heart Land (PBS/ITVS). His debut feature, Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa, premiered on the Sundance Channel, winning eight Best Documentary awards and earning a Gotham Award nomination. His television credits include Vice, Children of the Underground, Woman, Gaycation, and The Education of Shelby Knox.
Grace Zahrah
Grace Zahrah is an Emmy Award-winning documentary editor and producer. She won the Emmy for Outstanding Editing for the Oscar-shortlisted RETROGRADE, directed by Matthew Heineman. Her other credits include PRIME MINISTER, which won the Emmy for Best Documentary and the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and SIRENS, directed by Rita Baghdadi, which premiered at Sundance in 2022. Her work centers on observational, character-driven storytelling with a political edge. She is a former Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow and a member of the DOC NYC 40 Under 40 Class of 2022. She is based in Los Angeles.