ANNOUNCING THE 2023-2024 KAREN SCHMEER FELLOWS!
/We have launched our 2023-2024 group fellowship program and are happy to welcome 27 new fellows!
The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship is designed to cultivate the careers of talented documentary editors, associate editors and assistant editors from historically underrepresented backgrounds, identities, and experiences through mentorship to help them grow as artists and build their community. By investing in editors, we affirm and strengthen the critical role editors play in documentary storytelling. Since 2010 we have supported one hundred and twelve people through our programs. From an open call for applications, twenty seven fellows from around the country have been selected for this year’s program.
The fellows and their seasoned editor mentors will meet in small groups each month over the course of one year to discuss a range of self-selected topics centered around life and work experiences, the craft of editing, and the business of it. This year there are eleven fellows in New York, six in Los Angeles, four in the San Francisco Bay Area and six living outside these major metropolitan areas who will be meeting virtually.
This year’s fellows are:
Read more about this year’s fellows: https://www.karenschmeer.com/fellows2023
This year’s mentors are:
Read more about this year’s mentors: https://www.karenschmeer.com/mentors2023
“We are thrilled to be able to continue to support a large and talented group of assistant, associate and emerging documentary editors in our fellowship program this year. We strive to be an organization that serves the needs of the documentary editing community by providing space for mentorship and by amplifying the ever persistent challenges of equity and inclusivity in the documentary industry. We look forward to not only seeing our new fellows grow throughout their fellowship year but throughout their careers,” says KSFEF President Maya Mumma.
ABOUT THE KAREN SCHMEER FELLOWSHIP
The organization was created in memory of Karen Schmeer, ACE, the accomplished film editor of “The Fog of War,” “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,” and “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” among other films, who was tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident in New York City in 2010. Its mission is to foster the development of emerging documentary film editors by creating opportunities for creative growth and professional community building. Since 2010 we have supported 112 assistant, associate and emerging editors in our programs and have 27 fellows in our current fellowship program.
KSFEF is supported by generous donations from institutions and individuals who have been touched by Karen and her films, and who believe in our mission to support editors nationwide. Its organizational partners are American Cinema Editors (ACE), Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Adobe Systems, Netflix, SXSW, Manhattan Edit Workshop, A&E IndieFilms, DCTV, Sound Lounge, East Coast Digital, IFFBoston, LEF, International Documentary Association, Rooftop Films, FInal Frame, Pure Nonfiction, DOC NYC and the Camden International Film Festival.
For additional information, including bios of all fellows, alumni, mentors, and board, how to join our mailing list, and how to make a donation, please visit www.karenschmeer.com.
If you are looking to hire for your next production or know someone who is, we have a sortable and searchable database of all of program alumni and current fellows: www.karenschmeer.com/hire