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Flávia de Souza / NY Flávia de Souza is a Brazilian documentary film editor. She edited Aftershock, winner of the Impact for Change Special Jury Award at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She was also the editor of the Academy Award-nominated short documentary Open Heart, and the Emmy Award-winning film Armed With Faith. Her work also includes Razing Liberty Square, Boycott, and Song of Lahore. Flávia is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has been a mentor with the Karen Schmeer Fellowship and The Video Consortium. Flávia lives in Brooklyn, and received a MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635336076-K6BKDGPBRN5Z6K76748O/Foote_Amy.jpg Mentors - Amy Foote, ACE / NY Amy Foote, ACE is an Emmy Award winning documentary editor based in Brooklyn, NY. She started as an assistant editor working under Danish editor Niels Pagh Andersen and later attended The Edit Center. Some of her editing credits include Laura Poitras’s most recent Oscar-nominated film, All The Beauty and the Bloodshed (Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion); Girls State (Creative Arts Emmy for Best Direction and Best Cinematography); Father Soldier Son, Tribeca Film Festival Jury Award for Best Editing, News and Documentary Emmy for Best Editing, Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Sound); Hail Satan?; The Work (Grierson Awards for Best Single Documentary and Best International Documentary, Grand Jury Prize SXSW 2017, Gotham Award nominated for Best Documentary); Peabody award winning Mavis!; Fauci; Emmy-nominated A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt; The Mosuo Sisters; For Once In My Life, SXSW Audience Award 2010, IDA Best Music Documentary).; and Emmy-nominated film, Finishing Heaven (HBO). She lives in Brooklyn with her musician wife and their daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635339417-9E0ANZM1HNRJY7D3NYIM/Gersh_Andrew.jpeg Mentors - Andrew Gersh, ACE / OR Andrew Gersh, ACE is an award-winning documentary film editor based in Portland, Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area. His latest feature documentaries include Crip Camp (Netflix), winner of the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 IDA Awards and the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards, and nominated for the 2021 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. He was nominated for Best Editing at both the IDA (2020) and Critics Choice Awards (2020). For Real Boy, he was awarded the Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Editing Award at the 2016 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston 2016), and the James Lyons Editing Award For Documentary Feature at the 2016 Woodstock Film Festival. The film won best-of- fest awards around the world, and had its national broadcast premiere on PBS’ Independent Lens. Other work includes Try Harder! (Sundance 2021; Independent Lens/PBS), Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018; American Masters/PBS), Spark: A Burning Man Story (SXSW 2013) The Revolutionary Optimists (Sundance 2013; Independent Lens/PBS) and numerous films for PBS’ Frontline. Andrew is a two-time Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow and an active member of American Cinema Editors (ACE). He has served as a mentor for The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, BAVC’s Media Maker program, NW Documentary and Oregon Doc Camp. He continues to edit on a freelance basis remotely for projects around the world, and is also available for editorial and story consultation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635337943-3EAMH46UHO72MF2RQVAQ/Goldate_Stacy.jpg Mentors - Stacy Goldate, ACE / CA Stacy Goldate, ACE is a documentary filmmaker and editor who began her career in radio journalism where she was nominated for a student award from The Society of Professional Journalists. Before moving to Los Angeles, she worked for several film festivals, taught videomaking classes, waited tables, and received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2004, she has gone on to edit nearly 100 hours of television and feature film content, including the GLAAD Media Award-winning Disclosure (Netflix), the Emmy-winning World According to Football (Showtime), the Emmy-winning Out of Iraq (World of Wonder), and the Paramount + series Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza which premiered at Sundance 2024. Two films she edited - Our Father (Blumhouse/Netflix; directed by Lucie Jourdan) and Inhospitable (Cora Media/Abramorama; directed by Sandra Alvarez) - inspired the introduction of bipartisan legislation with the former leading to a fertility fraud bill proposal and the latter becoming a key resource for Rep Pramila Jayapal when she introduced the Stop Anti-Competitive Healthcare Act. Goldate, currently a Karen Schmeer Fellowship mentor, enjoys supporting early-career editors and consulting on independent films. When not editing, she can likely be found hiking with her dog or striking balls on the tennis court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635339110-8MM185OUETNM5O77K36R/Haj_Yahya_Rabab.jpeg Mentors - Rabab Haj Yahya / NY Rabab Haj Yahya (She/Her) is a Palestinian-American documentary editor based in New York. She is best known for The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018 | POV, 2019), which earned her the Best Editing Award at Woodstock Film Festival (2018), and the Critic's Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015 | Netflix). More recently, she edited the Emmy-nominated Another Body, which received the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling at SXSW (2023), two episodes of the Emmy-Award Winning series Through Our Eyes (HBOMax, 2024), How We Get Free (HBOMax, 2023), The Legend of the Underground (Tribeca, 2021 | HBOMax), and the Emmy-nominated Apart (Hot Docs, 2021). Rabab serves as a Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab advisor (2023). She has also mentored for Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Chicken & Egg, and the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship (2022-2024). Fluent in English, Arabic, and Hebrew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635340871-PV1TET7USM8K8113I8YW/Prasad_Sunita.jpg Mentors - Sunita Prasad / NY Sunita Prasad is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker best known for editing impactful feature documentaries such as Aftershock, edited with Flávia de Souza (Peabody and Sundance awards; Hulu), Storming Caesars Palace (BlackStar Shine Award), and The Ringleader (HBO). Sunita's work as a director and video artist has screened in festivals, galleries, and museums internationally including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Centre Clark in Montreal. Sunita has been recognized as one of DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 and has received awards from the Art Matters Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and most recently New York State Council on the Arts in support of the narrative short Sleep Training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635340632-VKV7UZZ1RXNKTEQW2T2R/Rhodes_Gabe.jpeg Mentors - Gabriel Rhodes / NY Gabriel Rhodes’ feature documentary credits include Gaucho Gaucho (2024 Sundance Special Jury Prize), Time (2021 Oscar nomination & Cinema Eye Award for Best Editing), The First Wave (2022 Best Editing Emmy & Oscar Shortlist), Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018 Special Jury Prize Sundance), Newtown, The Witness (2017 Oscar Shortlist), 1971, and The Tillman Story (2010 Oscar Shortlist). His work has premiered at Sundance, Cannes, NY Film Festival, Tribeca and many other festivals. He received his Master’s degree in documentary film from Stanford University in 2000. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two sons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635391398-BO034SS2EBFNU7594HXH/Yousef_Miranda.jpeg Mentors - Miranda Yousef, ACE / LA Miranda Yousef, ACE is an accomplished documentary editor and director whose work has screened at major outlets including Sundance, Tribeca, PBS and HBO. Editing credits include: Phoenix Rising (Sundance 2021, HBO); Emmy winner Art & Krimes by Krimes (MTV Documentary Films); Inequality for All (Sundance 2013 Special Jury Prize winner); and Academy Award winner Morgan Neville’s Emmy nominee Troubadours (Sundance 2011). Yousef is a founding member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors, and one of the working group that created BIPOC Doc Editors. A frequent panelist for documentary events, she has been an Editing Advisor for documentary labs hosted by Film Independent and The Gotham, and serves as a mentor for the Karen Schmeer Emerging Editor Fellowship. A graduate of Harvard College and UCLA, Yousef studied documentary filmmaking with Marina Goldovskaya, won the DGA Award for Best Director, Women’s Category, for her graduate thesis film, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Documentary Branch. Her directorial debut Art for Everybody premiered at SXSW 2023 and is currently touring festivals nationwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749374651-9SPM4BEPXZKEJ1UZICZO/Falk_Penelope.JPG Mentors - Penelope Falk / NY Penelope Falk has been editing documentaries for over the past 20+ years. Her most recent work, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, premiered on Netflix in 2022. Other partial film credits include Found (premiered on Netflix 2021), Running With Beto (premiered on HBO in March 2020), Recovery Boys (premiered on Netflix 2018), Step (winner of the 2017 Sundance Jury Prize for Inspirational Filmmaking, 2018 NAACP Image Award ), Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds (premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2016), Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (which won her an Excellence in Editing award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival), Maidentrip (winner of the SXSW Audience Award), The New Public (winner of the Golden Cine Award), Smile Til It Hurts (premiered Slamdance Film Festival), Toots (premiered Tribeca Film Festival), Stagedoor (debuted at the New York Film Forum. Partial TV film credits include: Marvin Hamlisch: What I Did For Love (American Experience), Election Day (POV), Unfinished Country (Wide Angle), and Afghan Stories (the Sundance Channel). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749375378-NZ0NEAZ5YJ503578929U/Gersh_Andrew.JPG Mentors - Andrew Gersh, ACE / OR Andrew Gersh, ACE is an award-winning documentary film editor based in Portland, Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area. His latest feature documentaries include Crip Camp (Netflix), winner of the Audience Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 IDA Awards and the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards, and nominated for the 2021 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. He was nominated for Best Editing at both the IDA (2020) and Critics Choice Awards (2020). For Real Boy, he was awarded the Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Editing Award at the 2016 Independent Film Festival Boston (IFFBoston 2016), and the James Lyons Editing Award For Documentary Feature at the 2016 Woodstock Film Festival. The film has won best-of-fest awards around the world, and had its national broadcast premiere on PBS’ Independent Lens. Other work includes Try Harder! (Sundance 2021; Independent Lens/PBS), Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018; American Masters/PBS), Spark: A Burning Man Story (SXSW 2013) The Revolutionary Optimists (Sundance 2013; Independent Lens/PBS) and numerous films for PBS’ Frontline. Andrew is a two-time Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow and an active member of American Cinema Editors (ACE). He has served as a mentor for BAVC’s Media Maker program, NW Documentary and Oregon Doc Camp. He continues to edit on a freelance basis remotely for projects around the world, and is also available for editorial and story consultation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749462570-RX32NEI6P60QGVYPXWOV/Haj_Yahya_Rabab.jpeg Mentors - Rabab Haj Yahya / NY Rabab Haj Yahya - is best known for the award-winning feature documentaries, The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018 | POV, 2019), described as a "real-world conspiracy thriller" (Variety Magazine) for which she won Best Editing Award (Woodstock, 2018) and the Critic’s Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015 | Netflix), which the NY Times called, "subtly rebellious and defiantly optimistic". Rabab recently edited the feature documentary The Legend of the Underground (HBO, Tribeca 2021). She was also an editor on the Emmy-nominated web-series The Secret Life of Muslims (Peabody Finalist | Vox | USA Today, 2016) and is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow. Based in New York, Rabab has teamed up with some powerful directors to edit a number of shorts including Absolutely No Spitting (Tribeca, 2019), Love the Sinner (Tribeca 2017), An Act of Worship (Field of Vision) and 62 Days (PBS World Channel, 2017). Rabab has also edited numerous documentaries for the critically-acclaimed TV documentary series “Witness" as well as for the Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel including Enemies of the South (AlJazeera Doc Channel 2015). In between projects, Rabab has dedicated time helping aspiring editors and filmmakers, through training and consultations, earning her the Palestinian Sulafa Jadallah Award for outstanding contribution to women’s cinema. Rabab speaks English, Arabic, and Hebrew fluently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749375591-0SJPMPX1M6MUIZPK10PE/Huddleson_Gail.jpg Mentors - Gail Huddleson / SF Gail Huddleson is a documentary editor based in San Francisco. Her work has aired on Showtime, PBS, The National Geographic Channel, Al Jazeera America, and has screened at film festivals across the US and internationally. Most recently, she edited two episodes of Dawn Porter’s Deadlocked – a four part series on the Supreme Court for Showtime that was a New York Times fall arts selection. Gail earned a Master’s Degree from the Stanford University Documentary Film Program. There she received the Guild Award from the Princess Grace Foundation in support of her thesis film, which she shot on 16mm film and cut on a flatbed. Gail has worked on many short and long form documentaries, including a KQED Quest Profile on Sylvia Earle (winner of a Northern California Emmy Award), Frontline’s My Father, My Brother, and Me, Land of Gold, In Defense of Food, and The Botany of Desire, for which she and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Editing. Gail is a third generation Californian who resides in San Francisco with her family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749497797-NVUGA8N00WVUIWAEQ9JV/63B4C5CA-DC83-4DDE-ACF5-7072522A00CD+-+Miki+Milmore.jpeg Mentors - M. Watanabe Milmore, ACE / NY Emmy Award winning editor, M. Watanabe Milmore, ACE began her career in documentaries working as an assistant editor at Maysles Films in 1991. She has edited films which premiered at Sundance Film Festival such as Rebuilding Paradise directed by Ron Howard, Metallica: Some King of Monster (Independent Spirt award) and Paradise Lost: Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Peabody award) directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and Suited directed by Jason Benjamin. Her other feature documentary work includes Partly Private directed by Danae Elon (Tribeca Film Festival - Best NY Documentary Feature), Doubletime directed by Stephanie Johnes (Best Documentary - Heartland International Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival), There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (HBO) directed by Liz Garbus, Nursery University (Showtime) directed by Marc Simon and Matt Makar, Paradise Lost II: Revelations (HBO) directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, The Virtual Corpse (HBO) and Gray Matter (HBO) directed by Joe Berlinger. In addition she has edited many nonfiction programs and series including The Innocence Files (Netflix) and Dogs (Netflix) directed by Roger Ross Williams, The Hill (Sundance) directed by Ivy Meeropol, Remembering Marshall: Thirty Years Later (ESPN) directed by Lillibet Foster, “Iconoclasts” (Sundance) and The Rolling Stone State of the Union (ABC) directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and docs-series Boston 24/7, Boston Med (CINE Special Jury Award), Hooking Up and NY Med (CINE Special Jury Award) for ABC. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and American Cinema Editors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749376005-HL1M8P264IXVDLIIVXP7/Motwani_Kristina.jpeg Mentors - Kristina Motwani / SF Kristina Motwani is an editor, director, writer, producer and story consultant living and working in San Francisco. Her credits include the documentaries Home is a Hotel, Breaking the News, Homeroom, Fruits of Labor, First Vote and Midnight Traveler, among others. She is the 2021 Sundance Jonathan Oppenheim Edit Award recipient, a 2019 DOCNYC 40 under 40 honoree, a 2018 SFFilm FilmHouse Resident, and was a 2017 BAVC National MediaMaker Fellow. Her work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca, SXSW, SFFilm festival and more and has received Peabody and Emmy awards, and has been seen on PBS, Netflix and the World Channel. She has received awards from the SF Press Club, the Tellys and the Society for Professional Journalism. She has been a chair for the IDA Best Editing Award and has taught editing at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is also a member of the Brown Girls Mafia Doc Mafia and the Association of Documentary Editors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749376915-CN1LQ1NL5E47A59VWDXU/Newens_Sara.jpg Mentors - Sara Newens / LA Sara Newens is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Emmy-award winning editor who began her career working for CBS News in New York City. She recently served as lead editor on Lana Wilson’s Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and received two Primetime Emmy nominations including Outstanding Picture Editing. She also collaborated with Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering on the HBO docuseries Allen V. Farrow, which garnered seven Emmy nominations in 2021, including Outstanding Picture Editing as well as Cinema Eye Honors and ACE Eddie award nominations. In addition, she served as editor/writer for On the Record, which premiered at Sundance in 2020. She is also known for directing/producing/editing The New York Times Op-Docs film Footprint: Where the Towers Stood as well as the documentary feature Top Spin with Co-Director Mina T. Son. She has also delved into cutting fiction and co-edited the critically acclaimed indie feature Freeland. A graduate of the MFA Documentary Film Program at Stanford University, she continues to create original work through her production company Wild Pair Films, co-owned by Mina T. Son. They recently launched a new feature entitled Racist Trees in partnership with Wayfarer Studios, which premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and had its North American Premiere at the 2023 Palm Springs International Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749376669-JCTHK4PFH3YEX0DELR7E/Shimin_Toby.jpg Mentors - Toby Shimin, ACE / NY Editor Toby Shimin began her film career as a sound editor and switched to picture editing when she cut The Children’s Storefront, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Since then, she has edited numerous films that have premiered at Sundance, including, Peabody Award winning How to Dance in Ohio, A Leap of Faith, Martha & Ethel, Miss America, and Everything’s Cool. Her Sundance Audience Award winning films include, Out of the Past, This is Home, which was also nominated for an Emmy award in editing, and Buck, which was short-listed for an Academy Award. Toby received the prestigious Documentary Editing Award at the 2018 Woodstock Film Festival for HBO's 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide. Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops won a Jury Prize at SXSW where it premiered in 2019 and an Emmy for outstanding editing. In 2020 HBO’S Baby God was selected to premiere opening night at SXSW. The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile won the audience award at its SXSW premiere, and opened in wide theatrical release. It also won the Documentary Editing Award at the 2022 Woodstock Film Festival. Among the recent films that Toby has served as consultant and supervising editor are Love Gilda, Jacinta, Storm Lake, Always in Season, Pay or Die, and the 2023 Oscar nominee, The Martha Mitchell Effect. Toby is a principal of Dovetail Films, which she co- founded with Dina Guttmann in 2001. She has served as a mentor for the Edit and Story labs at the Sundance Institute and Chicken & Egg and is on the advisory boards of Full Frame and Hedgebrook. She joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts 7 year ago and is co-curator of the documentary film series, Depot Docs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749513691-OQJQ3EL36PCN6O58K4IV/Christopher+White_Headshot_2020_WS+-+Christopher+White.JPG Mentors - Christopher White, ACE / NY Christopher White has been a documentary film editor of numerous award-winning films since 1995. The Lincoln Project, a 5 part series for Showtime is his most current project, premiering in October 2022. Recent projects include Born To Be, which premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival and received a 2021 Best Documentary Emmy Nomination. In 2018, Roll Red Roll premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was the season opener for the 2018 season of POV/PBS. Other films include: Love Free or Die (Sundance 2012 Special Jury Prize), The Killer Within (2006 Toronto Film Festival; 2008 Best Documentary Emmy Nomination), Women in Blue (Independent Lens 2020) and The Innocence Files (Netflix 2020). Currently, he is working on a 10 part series about the New England Patriots for Apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727749377935-CIXMBUSGAZTIN6PANJB9/Yousef_Miranda.jpeg Mentors - Miranda Yousef, ACE / LA Miranda Yousef, ACE is an accomplished documentary editor and director whose work has screened at major outlets including Sundance, Tribeca, PBS and HBO. Editing credits include: Phoenix Rising (Sundance 2021, HBO); Emmy winner Art & Krimes by Krimes (MTV Documentary Films); Inequality for All (Sundance 2013 Special Jury Prize winner); and Academy Award winner Morgan Neville’s Emmy nominee Troubadours (Sundance 2011). Yousef is a founding member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors, and one of the working group that created BIPOC Doc Editors. A frequent panelist for documentary events, she has been an Editing Advisor for documentary labs hosted by Film Independent and The Gotham, and serves as a mentor for the Karen Schmeer Emerging Editor Fellowship. A graduate of Harvard College and UCLA, Yousef studied documentary filmmaking with Marina Goldovskaya, won the DGA Award for Best Director, Women’s Category, for her graduate thesis film, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Documentary Branch. Her directorial debut Art for Everybody premiered at SXSW 2023 and is currently touring festivals nationwide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296059443-201HDVP79WO20RSHCFJH/anne+alvergue_bio+photo+-+anne+alvergue.jpg Mentors - Anne Alvergue / NY Anne Alvergue / NY Anne Alvergue is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor in the greater New York area. Her editing credits include Love, Gilda, Body Parts, The Business of Birth Control, and Bully. Coward.Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn, nominated for Outstanding Editing by Cinema Eye Honors. Her short films have screened at film festivals and galleries worldwide, including most recently The Martha Mitchell Effect, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming on Netflix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296064760-J688GMFDLDQN91E6L8DH/DonBernier_Headshot2022+-+Don+Bernier.jpeg Mentors - Don Bernier / SF Don Bernier / SF Don Bernier is an Emmy-nominated documentary film editor who has worked on experimental, historical and verité features, series, and shorts. Most recently, he edited Athlete A, which won a 2021 Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary. Bernier’s editing credits also include Always in Season, which won a Special Jury Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival; the Emmy-nominated Charm City, which was shortlisted for a 2019 Academy Award; the Oscar shortlisted and BAFTA nominated An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power; the Peabody Award winning Audrie & Daisy; The Genius of Marian, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival; and the Peabody Award winning bio, Eames: The Architect and the Painter. Bernier is a two-time Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and has served as a mentor for BAVC’s Media Maker program, the Catapult | True False Rough Cut Retreat, and the SFFILM Makers Creative Advisory Board. In 2017, Don became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Documentary Branch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296081706-2J3WB8KTEDA8VJSE98DX/PurcellCarson_UT+-+Purcell+Carson.jpg Mentors - Purcell Carson / NY Purcell Carson / NY Purcell Carson is a documentary filmmaker and editor. She serves as a lead creative partner on character-driven, observational documentaries, including the Oscar-winning Smile Pinki and Semper Fi: Always Faithful, which won best-editing from the Tribeca and Woodstock film festivals and the Ridenhour Documentary Prize. Simple as Water, a cinema verité portrait following Syrian refugees in five countries, is her latest feature edit. She has worked on music documentaries (LoudQuietLoud, How to Grow a Band, and Note by Note) and enjoys shaping directors’ personal, first-person projects. She is currently editing a feature about inequality and the estate tax. Purcell has taught filmmaking at Princeton University for the past ten years, focusing on the way that non-fiction film offers a form of both investigation and community engagement. At Princeton, she founded and directs The Trenton Project, through which she collaborates with colleagues, students and community members to create films about the city. Her own projects in Trenton look at the city in the 1960s and contemporary migration from Central America. She is a former MacDowell fellow and spent 2019 in Guatemala as a Fulbright scholar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296070857-PZO7REK7QLDLRW53QMQD/Flavia+de+Souza+headshot+-+flaviadesouza%40mac.com.jpg Mentors - Flavia de Souza / NY Flavia de Souza / NY Flávia de Souza is the co-editor of Aftershock, winner of the Impact for Change Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022. She also edited the Academy Award-nominated short documentary Open Heart, and the Emmy Award-winning film Armed With Faith. Her work also includes Boycott, Naila and the Uprising and Song of Lahore. Flávia has been a mentor for the Karen Schmeer Diversity Program and an advisor for the Brown Girls Doc Mafia's Feedback Loop. She received a MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296082974-TPPF2K9S9AC676CSTSXU/StacyGoldate_headshot+by+Susan+Kuklin2018_crop+-+Stacy+Goldate.jpg Mentors - Stacy A. Goldate / LA Stacy A. Goldate / LA Stacy Goldate is an award-winning editor, producer, and director who began her career in radio journalism, helped developed film production workshops for LGBTQ+ youth, was a programmer for film festivals, and waited tables for 14 years. She made her first documentary, Lucy Barks! in 1996, chronicling the all-ages punk rock scene in Nashville. She then got her MFA from SAIC where she created experimental shorts, a temporary installation for Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Arts, and a queer sci-fi film, Dominatrix Waitrix (2004), which premiered at BFI Flare-London’s LGBTQ+ Film Fest. Based in Los Angeles since 2005, Goldate has edited more than 50 non-fiction projects, including acclaimed series for CNN (The Nineties, The 2000s, 1968) Executive Produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog; The Emmy-winning Out of Iraq directed by Chris McKim and Eva Orner; Ashley York’s and Sally Rubin’s multi award-winning Hillbilly (Hulu); The GLAAD Media Award-winning Disclosure (Netflix) directed/produced by Sam Feder, produced by Amy Scholder, and Executive Produced by Laverne Cox for which Goldate received an IDA editing award nomination; Mama Has a Mustache, a festival-favorite animated short directed/produced by Sally Rubin; and Our Father (Netflix) a documentary thriller directed/produced by Lucie Jourdan for Blumhouse which was top ten on Netflix world-wide for several weeks. Goldate also co-directed and produced A Greater Society with Craig A. Colton, a film they used to get out the vote for the 2018 Midterms. Recently, she edited/produced with director/producer Sandra Alvarez, Inhospitable, a documentary premiering theatrically in September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296083083-XRTLNQN520X3ZKL1YB6S/RababHajYahyaProfile+-+Rabab+Haj+Yahya.jpeg Mentors - Rabab Haj Yahya / NY (Virtual) Rabab Haj Yahya / NY (Virtual) Rabab Haj Yahya - is best known for the award-winning feature documentaries, The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018 | POV, 2019), described as a "real-world conspiracy thriller" (Variety Magazine) for which she won Best Editing Award (Woodstock, 2018) and the Critic’s Choice-nominated Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015 | Netflix), which the NY Times called, "subtly rebellious and defiantly optimistic". Rabab recently edited the feature documentary The Legend of the Underground (HBO, Tribeca 2021). She was also an editor on the Emmy-nominated web-series The Secret Life of Muslims (Peabody Finalist | Vox | USA Today, 2016) and is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow. Based in New York, Rabab has teamed up with some powerful directors to edit a number of shorts including Absolutely No Spitting (Tribeca, 2019), Love the Sinner (Tribeca 2017), An Act of Worship (Field of Vision) and 62 Days (PBS World Channel, 2017). Rabab has also edited numerous documentaries for the critically-acclaimed TV documentary series “Witness" as well as for the Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel including Enemies of the South (AlJazeera Doc Channel 2015). In between projects, Rabab has dedicated time helping aspiring editors and filmmakers, through training and consultations, earning her the Palestinian Sulafa Jadallah Award for outstanding contribution to women’s cinema. Rabab speaks English, Arabic, and Hebrew fluently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296077108-M398Y0M4VCL0EYKUP338/Jean-2232-sm_BW.jpg Mentors - Jean Kawahara / SF Jean Kawahara / SF Jean Kawahara is a documentary film editor drawn to stories that explore identity, champion underdogs, and challenge the status quo. Her independent film credits include the feature documentaries, Belly of the Beast, Blessed Child, T-Rex, Point of No Return, City of Borders, Yank Tanks, Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story, the short documentary, Futbolistas 4 Life, and the narrative feature, Nail Polish. Her short documentary work has been featured in the New York Times and New Yorker. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from UC Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296076215-25AWWJIUHTWPFA1UQ3CC/InbalLessner_EditingSeduced_sm+-+Inbal+Lessner.jpg Mentors - Inbal Lessner, ACE / LA Inbal Lessner / LA Inbal B. Lessner, ACE, is an Emmy and Eddie nominated producer and editor, an editing consultant, and a mother of two. She thinks writing bios in third person is kinda weird. Inbal began making films when she was in high school and later produced training films for the Israeli Defense Forces. At NYU, she was the recipient of the WTC Johnson Fellowship, awarded to one student filmmaker a year. Since moving to LA, Inbal has edited hundreds of hours of non-scripted television shows, including Sundance Channel’s Transgeneration, Netflix’ Remastered, HBO’s Autism: The Sequel, and seven 1-hour episodes of CNN’s "Decades Series." She received an ACE Award nomination for The Nineties: Can We All Get Along. In 2020, Inbal co-created the STARZ docuseries Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, which she executive produced, wrote and edited, and for which she received her second ACE Award nomination. Inbal’s feature documentaries include Brave Miss World, I Have Never Forgotten You, A Whisper to a Roar, If I Die Tonight, and the latest Victim/Suspect, which will premiere on Netflix in 2023. Dabbling in narrative films, Lessner was an Additional Editor on Natalie Portman's A Tale of Love and Darkness. She edited The Elephant King (with Ellen Burstyn) for director Seth Grossman after their short, Shock Act, had won Best Narrative at Tribeca and Chicago film festivals. Inbal has taught film editing at UNCSA, and is currently on the faculty of AFI. She has produced several panels about parents in the edit room. Inbal is thrilled to return as a mentor with KSFEF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296111793-MPUU20MW1HNDW7NCHRTM/KA+Miille+headshot.jpg Mentors - K.A. Miille / NY (Virtual) K.A. Miille / NY (Virtual) K.A. Miille is a multi-talented editor whose work spans from feature documentaries to narratives and commercials. She is passionate about impacting others through the untold stories of prominent figures and key ideals. Her independent documentary work includes the American Masters Marian Anderson, She’s Got the Whole World in Her Hands with director Rita Coburn, PBS Muhammad Ali with Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and Dave McMahon at Florentine Films, Netflix’ and Ark Media’s Who Killed Malcolm X? which helped to reopen the investigation into Malcom X’s murder. Teaming again with Ark Media, and working with the legendary Andy Lack, they showcased NBC’s first feature length documentary in fourteen years, Hope and Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media. Kim collaborated with Marc Levin and Lebron James’ SpringHill Entertainment for the groundbreaking film, I Promise, a moving look into Akron Ohio’s new public school for underprivileged children. Other documentary works include Stanley Nelson’s critically acclaimed, Tell Them We Are Rising (premier Sundance, 2017), which tells the struggle of Historically Black Colleges and Universes; Henry Louis “Skip” Gates’ Peabody, Emmy, and DuPont award-winning black history series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross; and Through a Lens Darkly (Sundance, 2014) directed by Thomas Allen Harris. Kim’s narrative experience includes working with notable directors and producers, including Steven Soderbergh, Spike Lee and Pete Chatmon. Kim especially enjoys collaborating with her husband Sam (a talented sound mixer/designer) on art pieces for their home, as well as art for their palates. All this under the watchful eyes of their two pups, ‘Boss’ Bella and ‘Sweet’ Sassy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296056432-KBSSACEV7QJCIU86EBAZ/63B4C5CA-DC83-4DDE-ACF5-7072522A00CD+-+Miki+Milmore.jpeg Mentors - Miki Watanabe Milmore / NY Miki Watanabe Milmore, ACE / NY Emmy Award winning editor, M. Watanabe Milmore, ACE began her career in documentaries working as an assistant editor at Maysles Films in 1991. She has edited films which premiered at Sundance Film Festival such as Rebuilding Paradise directed by Ron Howard, Metallica: Some King of Monster (Independent Spirt award) and Paradise Lost: Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Peabody award) directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and Suited directed by Jason Benjamin. Her other feature documentary work includes Partly Private directed by Danae Elon (Tribeca Film Festival - Best NY Documentary Feature), Doubletime directed by Stephanie Johnes (Best Documentary - Heartland International Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival), There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane (HBO) directed by Liz Garbus, Nursery University (Showtime) directed by Marc Simon and Matt Makar, Paradise Lost II: Revelations (HBO) directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, The Virtual Corpse (HBO) and Gray Matter (HBO) directed by Joe Berlinger. In addition she has edited many nonfiction programs and series including The Innocence Files (Netflix) and Dogs (Netflix) directed by Roger Ross Williams, The Hill (Sundance) directed by Ivy Meeropol, Remembering Marshall: Thirty Years Later (ESPN) directed by Lillibet Foster, “Iconoclasts” (Sundance) and The Rolling Stone State of the Union (ABC) directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and docs-series Boston 24/7, Boston Med (CINE Special Jury Award), Hooking Up and NY Med (CINE Special Jury Award) for ABC. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and American Cinema Editors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664296082091-7HMVDPIGXDM7CDBJPIZ1/nutile+-+Kristen+N.jpg Mentors - Kristen Nutile / NY Kristen Nutile / NY Kristen Nutile is a documentary editor and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Kristen recently edited Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (directed by Lizzie Gottlieb), which premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics in December. Other select editing credits include the Emmy nominated film Fathom (Apple TV+), Art & Krimes by Krimes (MTV Documentary Films), Adrienne (HBO), Warrior Women (PBS), and Weed the People (Netflix). In 2017, she edited the Oscar nominated film Heroin(e), which went on to win an Emmy. In 2006, Kristen collaborated with Albert Maysles and Tanja Meding on Sally Gross - The Pleasure of Stillness which screened at the New York Film Forum and National Gallery of Art. Kristen holds MA degrees in Documentary Film from Stanford University and Biology from San Francisco State University and she teaches at New York Film Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806489303-0RU97OQBPFM81SVW5A5C/White_Christopher_NYC.JPG Mentors - Christopher White / NY Christopher White / NY Christopher White has been a documentary film editor of numerous award-winning films since 1995. The Lincoln Project, a 5 part series for Showtime is his most current project, premiering in October 2022. Recent projects include Born To Be, which premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival and received a 2021 Best Documentary Emmy Nomination. In 2018, Roll Red Roll premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was the season opener for the 2018 season of POV/PBS. Other films include: Love Free or Die (Sundance 2012 Special Jury Prize), The Killer Within (2006 Toronto Film Festival; 2008 Best Documentary Emmy Nomination), Women in Blue (Independent Lens 2020) and The Innocence Files (Netflix 2020). Currently, he is working on a 10 part series about the New England Patriots for Apple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806487793-XHN3QCM76PG4PFOCWFHY/Das_Poppy_LA.jpg Mentors - Poppy Das, ACE / LA Poppy Das, ACE, has been working as an editor in unscripted television and documentary films for the past 25 years. She has worked on many diverse TV projects including VH1’s Behind the Music, MTV’s The Hills and FX’s 30 Days, working with documentarians RJ Cutler and Morgan Spurlock. In 2019 her work with Marina Zenovich and Alex Gibney on HBO’s Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, was awarded an ACE Eddie for outstanding editing. Das also edited Amazon Studios Lorena, a re-telling of the Lorena Bobbit story, a 4-part series executive produced by Jordan Peele. Das attended AFI, a member of the first class to participate in and graduate from the editing discipline at the conservatory. Currently she is completing a 4-part documentary series on the space shuttle Challenger and will begin a feature documentary on a pop culture figure, both for Netflix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806481507-X7Y6A7QRGTYL05D6CAUK/De-Souza_Flavia_NYC.jpg Mentors - Flávia de Souza / NY Flávia de Souza is the editor of the Academy Award-nominated short documentary Open Heart. Her work also includes the News & Documentary Emmy Award-winning film Armed with Faith, as well as credits on Naila and the Uprising, Song of Lahore, and Rancher Farmer Fisherman, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Flávia’s work has screened at Tribeca, DOC NYC, and Sheffield, among other festivals, and has broadcast on HBO, PBS, Arté, and the Discovery Channel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806482152-D71T44XQ9B7OMSHSDNRF/Gilbert_Jeff_LA.jpeg Mentors - Jeff Gilbert, ACE / LA Jeff Gilbert, ACE, is an Emmy nominated film editor with a passion for character driven narratives that explore humanity with emotional truth, cinematic beauty and cultural relevance. He is best known for the Oscar-nominated documentary Extremis and Sundance Grand Jury winner, Boys State as well as the Oscar short-listed The Overnighters. Jeff has been granted fellowships from The Sundance Institute, Film Independent and The New York Foundation for the Arts. He has also served as a grant advisor for the IDA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1601235365640-ASBXBZMZ785JCTL26DEP/KHASSETT.jpg Mentors - Kimberley Hassett / LA Kimberley was born and raised in southern Alabama. She was trained in video art and photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York and was active in NYC's performance art scene, often collaborating with renowned conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. She has cut features in both fiction and nonfiction, and her work has screened at Sundance, TIFF, IDFA, and the Berlin International Film Festival. Most recently, Kimberley edited Sandi Tan's Shirkers, Eva Orner’s Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator for Netflix (TIFF 2019) as well as co-produced Jason Kohn's Love Means Zero and his upcoming feature Nothing Lasts Forever (2021) for Showtime. Additionally, she executive produced two A24 documentary series for Netflix, The Confession Tapes (2019) and Exhibit A (2019) and is currently executive producing a nonfiction series in India with Golden Karavan, also for Netflix. She lives in Los Angeles, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806483125-QQZHENH6W6NWKWI3WZC9/Manhardt_Mary_NYC.JPG Mentors - Mary Manhardt / NY Mary Manhardt is a documentary film editor and consultant, specializing in verite. Her work has screened at festivals including Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Hot Docs, SXSW, Tribeca and IDFA, and appeared on HBO, PBS, MTV, ABC and Netflix. Among her credits: The Farm, The Execution of Wanda Jean, Girlhood, Farmingville, Street Fight, American Teen, Racing Dreams, Monica & David, Wham! Bam! Islam!, A Son’s Sacrifice, Bronx Princess, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, Pelotero, American Promise, Medora, The Babushkas of Chernobyl, Tig, My Name is Pedro, and If the Dancer Dances She co-edited and consulted on Making a Murderer, the 10-part doc series for Netflix, which won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards. Mary won an Emmy in 1999 for Picture Editing for The Farm, and was nominated again in 2015 for American Promise. Mary is currently editing I Am Jane Roe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806484614-81IDMEZ1KCGKCLVQE0NG/McClendon_Blair_NYC.jpg Mentors - Blair McClendon / NY Blair Seab McClendon is an editor and filmmaker. He is a former Karen Schmeer Diversity fellow, was a Contributing Editor for the 2017 Sundance Documentary Edit and Story labs and winner of the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for Editing with the film LAPS. His work has also premiered at Tribeca, Cannes, TIFF, Telluride and other festivals around the world. He was most recently an editor on The Assistant and Mr. Soul! and a consulting editor on Whose Streets. Like many others, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806485404-HVHVIJZ85HG1EYZ2TG5Y/Minnear_Nyneve_Laura_NYC.jpg Mentors - Nyneve Laura Minnear / NY Nyneve Minnear is based in New York and recently wrapped editing on HBO’s 9-part documentary series The Vow with Oscar-nominated directors Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer. Her film work includes 306 Hollywood, the first documentary to premiere in the NEXT section for Innovative Filmmaking at Sundance 2018; (T)ERROR, winner of an Emmy, a Sundance 2015 Special Jury Award, a Full Frame Grand Jury Award and an Independent Spirit Award nomination; Girl With Black Balloons, winner of a Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC and chosen “Best of Fest” at its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Nyneve was an editor/producer for the Emmy award-winning investigative news magazine series Dan Rather Reports for three years, has been a fellow at the Sundance Documentary Edit Lab and two IFP Edit Labs, and is on the Steering Committee for the newly formed ADE-Alliance of Documentary Editors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806486184-XQS55T66CR8KDTM2DSOU/Pollard_Jason_NYC.jpg Mentors - Jason Pollard / NY Jason Pollard’s involvement in the film industry began when he was a young child accompanying his father, acclaimed film producer/editor Sam Pollard, to different edit rooms and watched as his father magically turned strips of celluloid into complex and wonderful stories about people across the world. After transferring to New York University’s Film/TV program He has edited several acclaimed documentary films including 2007’s Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, Sing Your Song which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Slavery By Another Name which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and most recently the Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1601235366913-I4YJ60IIC5NLPFX8IGX7/kkhsim+%C2%A9LawrenceSim.jpg Mentors - Karen K.H. Sim / NY Karen K. H. Sim began her documentary filmmaking career as editor on Maro Chermayeff’s Juilliard. She then further honed her skills in storytelling by working with Frontline producer/director Ofra Bikel, editing a number of her films, including the Emmy Award winning An Ordinary Crime. Since then, she has contributed to many documentary projects as producer, writer and / or editor, among them Back on Board: Greg Louganis; Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper; and Who Killed Garrett Phillips. In 2014, Karen won the Sundance Film Festival Documentary Editing Award for Watchers of the Sky. Most recently, she produced and wrote Anas v. The Giant which premiered at SxSW 2019. Karen is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583806489303-0RU97OQBPFM81SVW5A5C/White_Christopher_NYC.JPG Mentors - Christopher White / NY Christopher White has been a documentary film editor, producer and director of numerous award-winning films since 1995. Born To Be, his most recent project, premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival. In 2018, Roll Red Roll premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, was the season opener for the 2018 season of POV on PBS, and is currently running on Netflix. Other films include; Love Free or Die (Sundance 2012 Special Jury Prize), The Killer Within (2006 Toronto Film Festival; 2008 Best Documentary Emmy Nomination), and Family Name (Sundance 1997). Forthcoming is The Innocence Files, a multi-part Netflix series on wrongful incarceration, directed by Roger Ross Williams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640815629908-OANRXIT0H08FRBNZZO6B/Yousef2.jpg Mentors - Miranda Yousef, ACE / LA Miranda Yousef, ACE is an accomplished documentary editor whose work has screened at major outlets including Sundance, Tribeca, PBS and HBO. Recent credits include: The New Bauhaus (2019 Chicago IFF); Daughters Of The Sexual Revolution, which premiered at SXSW 2018; episodes of CNN’s Emmy nominee The Seventies and HBO’s State of Play; Academy Award winner Jessica Yu’s 2014 film Misconception; Inequality For All, winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival; Burn, which won the Audience Award at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival; and Academy Award winner Morgan Neville’s Troubadours, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, played on PBS’s “American Masters,” and was nominated for an Emmy award. A graduate of Harvard College and UCLA, Miranda studied documentary filmmaking with Marina Goldovskaya, won the DGA Award for Best Director, Women’s Category, for her graduate thesis film, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Documentary Branch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556142415065-DSJ8BZW3NFN0THEEXOKP/Francisco+Bello_9640.jpeg Mentors - Francisco Bello, ACE / NY Francisco Bello is is an Oscar and three time Emmy nominee. He shot and produced Salim Baba, a 2008 Best Short Documentary Oscar and 2009 Emmy Nominee. Francisco produced and edited War Don Don, the winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival, for which he was also awarded the inaugural Karen Schmeer Documentary Editing Award and two Emmy nominations. Additional highlights include editing the 2017 SXSW Narrative Grand Jury Prize winning Most Beautiful Island, the Peabody winning Best Kept Secret, and the Best Editing Cinema Eye Honors nominee The Reagan Show. Francisco co-directed Dreaming Against the World, seen at the 2015 Telluride Film Festival. His editorial work will be seen in forthcoming releases from Oscar nominee Richard Rowley’s 16 Shots, and Oscar winner Barbara Kopple’s Desert One. He is a member of the Documentary Branch of AMPAS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556142415077-4PGD5Z9JR7D45W6QGN6L/Amy+Foote.jpeg Mentors - Amy Foote / NY Amy Foote is a documentary editor based in Brooklyn, NY. Amy initially fell in love with the art of documentary editing while working on Jennifer Fox's documentary series Flying: Confessions of A Free Woman that was edited by Nils Pagh Andersen (The Act Of Killing). Some of her editing credits include Hail Satan? (Sundance 2019, Magnolia) The Work (Grierson Award for Best Single Documentary, Grand Jury Prize SXSW 2017); Exit Music (ITVS), Peabody award winning Mavis! (HBO); 1964 (PBS American Experience); the Emmy-nominated and James Beard Award winning film, A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (HBO, BBC); For Once In My Life, (PBS Independent Lens, SXSW Audience Award 2010, IDA Best Music Documentary). and the Emmy-nominated film, Finishing Heaven (HBO). She has taught documentary editing at The Edit Center and is currently editing The New York Times' first feature documentary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556142425653-7TL6Y1CLU6FTKJXJVAW4/Inbal+Lessner.jpeg Mentors - Inbal Lessner, ACE / LA Inbal B. Lessner, ACE, is an Emmy and Eddie nominated producer and editor, an editing consultant, and a mother of two. She thinks writing bios in third person is kinda weird. Born and raised in Israel, Inbal began making films in high school and continued during her military service. She received a full-tuition scholarship to attend NYU film school. Since moving to L.A., Inbal has edited numerous non-scripted television shows, including Sundance Channel’s Transgeneration, Netflix’ Remastered, and seven 1-hour episodes of CNN’s decades series. She received an ACE Award nomination for The Nineties: Can We All Get Along. Her theatrical documentaries include Brave Miss World, I Have Never Forgotten You, A Whisper to a Roar, and If I Die Tonight. Dabbling in narrative films, Lessner was an Additional Editor on Natalie Portman's A Tale of Love and Darkness. She edited The Elephant King (with Ellen Burstyn) for director Seth Grossman after their short, Shock Act, had won Best Narrative at Tribeca and Chicago film festivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1551846157855-UOVPUHFOCKO5EOU38DST/VictorLivingston+crop.PNG Mentors - Victor Livingston / LA Victor Livingston grew up in Claremont, California on a lemon grove. He attended Cornell University and it was there that he found his passion for the art of filmmaking. He went to graduate school at San Francisco State in film and discovered he had a knack for film editing. He was an assistant editor on The Right Stuff and a sound editor on Amadeus. Searching for his own opportunity as an editor he moved to Los Angeles. There he found work on special effects films and in animation. Then he received a call to edit a documentary about Robert Crumb. He moved back to the Bay Area to edit Crumb with his wife as his assistant. What has transpired since then has been a career in editing documentary films. An extended interview with Victor can be found in the book, “First Cut 2, More Conversations with Film Editors” by Gabriella Oldham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556144409980-IYCSAAHEBMQYRWDYLCD8/manhardt%2Bheadshot%2BIMG_1055.jpeg Mentors - Mary Manhardt / NY Mary Manhardt is a documentary film editor and consultant, specializing in verite. Her work has screened at festivals including Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Hot Docs, SXSW, Tribeca and IDFA, and appeared on HBO, PBS, MTV, ABC and Netflix. Among her credits: The Farm; The Execution of Wanda Jean; girlhood; Farmingville; Street Fight; American Teen; Racing Dreams; Monica & David; Wham! Bam! Islam!; A Son's Sacrifice; Bronx Princess; Camp Victory, Afghanistan; Pelotero; American Promise; Medora; The Babushkas of Chernobyl; Tig; My Name is Pedro; and If the Dancer Dances. She co-edited and consulted on Making a Murderer, the 10 part doc series for Netflix, which won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards. Mary won an Emmy in 1999 for Picture Editing for The Farm, and was nominated again in 2015 for American Promise. Mary is currently editing I Am Jane Roe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556142415294-AILFQZFLQC6LZ7R4RUAJ/Nyneve+Headshot.jpeg Mentors - Nyneve Laura Minnear / NY Nyneve Laura Minnear is a documentary film editor based in New York. Her award-winning films include 306 Hollywood, the first documentary to premiere in the NEXT section for Innovative Filmmaking at Sundance 2018, broadcasting on PBS-POV in 2019; (T)ERROR, winner of an Emmy, a Sundance 2015 Special Jury Award, a Full Frame Grand Jury Award and an Independent Spirit Award nomination; Girl With Black Balloons, winner of a Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC and chosen "Best of Fest" at its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Nyneve was an editor/producer for the Emmy award-winning investigative news series Dan Rather Reports for three years, has been a fellow at the Sundance Documentary Edit Lab and two IFP Edit Labs, and a mentor for the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media at Johns Hopkins University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556142429575-H3DKK6TJ5OGBHAYB02SI/OFlinn_Alex_Headshot.jpg Mentors - Alex O'Flinn / LA Alex O'Flinn is a Film Editor in Los Angeles. Some of his credits include The Rider, The OA Part II, Jawline, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and The Bad Batch. In 2017 he received a Best Editing nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards for his work on The Rider. He is an advisor for Film Independent's Project Involve, as well as their Directing Lab, and is the 2014 recipient of the Sundance Institute's Sally Menke Memorial Editing Fellowship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556142415332-7C06E29BF959XUL4YBK7/gabe+rhodes.jpeg Mentors - Gabriel Rhodes / NY Gabriel Rhodes’ feature documentary credits include Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (Special Jury Prize Sundance 2018), Newtown, The Witness, 1971, The Tillman Story, Without Shepherds, Quest For Honor, as well as the forthcoming And We Go Green. His work has premiered at Sundance, Cannes, NY Film Festival, Tribeca and many other international festivals. Three of his edited films - The Witness, The Tillman Story and Quest for Honor - were shortlisted for an Academy Award. He received his Master’s Degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University in 2000. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two sons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1551846107802-HEO6ZKJLCER91BGY9YSO/Azin+Samari+headshot.jpeg Mentors - Azin Samari / LA Azin Samari is an Emmy nominated documentary film editor who has worked in film and television for two decades. Her first feature documentary, RJ Cutler’s The September Issue, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her editing work on Rory Kennedy’s Ethel, an HBO documentary from 2013. Her work has aired on PBS and HBO and has debuted at the Telluride, Toronto, Sundance and London Film Festivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556144410008-R5J5KOG8F7B4W3YWN36B/Aljernon%2BTunsil%2BIMG_5993.jpeg Mentors - Aljernon Tunsil / NY Aljernon Tunsil is an Emmy-winning editor who has been editing films on a range of topics from civil rights, Native Americans and political issues for more than a decade. His latest film, the critically-acclaimed The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, premiered at Sundance. His other films include the Emmy-winning films Jesse Owens and Freedom Riders; as well as Freedom Summer about the student volunteers who put their lives on the line to register African-American voters in Mississippi in 1964 and The Abolitionists, a 3-hour documentary film about a brave multiracial abolitionist movement that banded together to end slavery in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1551846261860-MGEK97IF6BS5Z4YBXPN6/KSFEF_Fellow+2012+Lindsay+Utz.jpg Mentors - Lindsay Utz / LA Lindsay Utz is an award-winning documentary film editor. Her most recent film, American Factory (dir. Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert) premiered at Sundance in 2019 and won the Jury Prize for Directing. The film was acquired by Netflix and will have a global premiere later in the year. Prior to this, she edited QUEST (dir. Jonathan Olshefski), a longitudinal portrait of a family from North Philadelphia, ten years in the making. QUEST premiered at Sundance in 2017 to critical acclaim and the film went on to win top prizes at many prestigious festivals. In 2018 Lindsay won the Cinema Eye Honors award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing for her work on the film. QUEST had its television broadcast as the opening film for POV's 2018 summer season. Her other credits include the Oscar-shortlisted Bully (Tribeca FF 2011), First Position (TIFF 2011), Buoy (Ashland FF 2013), In Country (Full Frame 2014), two Emmy-nominated FRONTLINE episodes (PBS 2015/2016) and multiple shorts for the New York Times. She is currently working with Lana Wilson (After Tiller, The Departure) on a Tremolo production, with Executive Producer Morgan Neville. Lindsay was the recipient of the 2012 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139876471-TJVHP44SR45H3GHDSYPM/geof+headshot+from+him.jpg Mentors - Geof Bartz, ACE / NY Geof Bartz, ACE, has been the Supervising Editor for HBO Documentary Films since 1998. Geof has edited, or supervised the editing of, more than 120 non-fiction films, among them the classic documentary Pumping Iron. Geof was the co-producer and supervising editor of the 1979 NBC Emmy winning series Lifeline, and he produced and co-edited the 1984 20th Century Fox feature Stripper. Eight of Geof’s short films have been nominated for Academy Awards and four have won: King Gimp, Big Mama, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, and A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness. Geof has been nominated for ten Emmys and won four. And films he has cut have received three Peabody and two Columbia-Dupont Awards. Geof is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Cinema Editors (ACE) and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139900554-42R2YXRZ537YJRG36RSA/Erin+Casper+Headshot-color.jpg Mentors - Erin Casper / NY Erin Casper is an Emmy-nominated documentary editor based in New York. Her work has been screened and honored at festivals around the world, including Sundance Film Festival, New York Film Festival, IDFA, Hot Docs, Tribeca Film Festival, Visions du Réel, and more. Erin’s credits include American Promise, winner of the 2013 Sundance Special Jury Award; The Last Season, a 2015 Film Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award nominee; The New Black, a nominee for an NAACP Image Award; Our School, which won the 2011 AFI DOCS grand jury prize; and Risk, directed by Academy Award winner Laura Poitras. Her short form and episodic nonfiction work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Field of Vision, NY Times Op-Docs and The Intercept. Erin has served as both an advisor and fellow at the IFP and Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Labs, and was the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139887601-MEH4TQFM85IRAB5XWSRA/AWF_GeetaGandbhir_380w.jpg Mentors - Geeta Gandbhir / NY Geeta Gandbhir has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and won two. As editor, her films have been nominated twice for the Academy Award, winning once, and have also won four Peabody Awards. Most recently, she co-directed the feature documentary I Am Evidence for HBO and a short film, Love the Sinner. Both films premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Her feature documentary, Prison Dogs, which she co-directed with Perri Peltz, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, and a feature documentary she directed with Academy Award winning director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, A Journey of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers, premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and will be broadcast on PBS in 2018. She is also currently co-directing and co-producing a Conversation on Race series with The New York Times Op-Docs, which won an Online Journalism Award for Online Commentary, an AFI Documentary Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short, and garnered a MacArthur Grant. She also co-directed and edited the film, Remembering the Artist, Robert De Niro, Sr., with Perri Peltz for HBO which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139898598-O37TR0LTI7TSNU4B0N8R/Carla+headshot+OS2_3925.jpeg Mentors - Carla Gutierrez, ACE / NY Carla Gutierrez is the editor of the Oscar-nominated film La Corona and the Emmy-nominated documentaries Reportero and Kingdom of Shadows. Her latest film, RBG, about the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival where it was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media for theatrical distribution. Carla’s recent film Chavela, premiered at the 2017 Berlinale Film Festival. She also edited When Two Worlds Collide, which won a Special Jury Award at Sundance and was nominated for a Cinema Honors Award. Carla’s work has screened at Sundance, Berlinale, IDFA, SXSW, Full Frame, AFI, HotDocs, among other festivals. Her films have broadcast on HBO, Netflix, POV, Independent Lens, the Sundance Channel, CBC and BBC. Carla has been a creative adviser for the Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Labs, and a mentor for the Firelight Producers’ Lab. She received a Masters in Documentary Film from Stanford University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1520183073653-UTS46P3PVF3EFGMCDE3Z/Sabine+Krayenbuhl.jpg Mentors - Sabine Krayenbühl / NY Sabine Krayenbühl is an award winning editor with over 20 theatrical documentaries and narrative features to her credit. Her work includes Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nominated My Architect for which she received an ACE Eddie Award nomination. Other credits include ‪Mad Hot Ballroom, The Bridge, Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies produced by Martin Scorsese, Jennifer Fox’s My Reincarnation, Salinger on which she consulted and her directorial debut Letters from Baghdad which was released theatrically in 2017 and will be broadcast on PBS in 2018. Most recently, she finished The Price of Everything which premiered at Sundance 2018. She is an alumni of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a long-term member of New York Women in Film and Television. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1520183823634-QL9FHTN2JS8O94FNTBO4/michael+levine.jpg Mentors - Michael Levine / NY Film editor Michael Levine has been fortunate enough to have collaborated with many terrific filmmakers. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s Restrepo won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, was nominated for an Oscar, and earned Michael an Emmy Award for feature documentary film editing. He was an editor on Ken Burns’ Baseball, The West, and editor of acclaimed The Central Park Five, with Ken, his daughter Sarah, and her husband David McMahon. Michael edited Bennett Miller’s debut film, a documentary called, The Cruise, was an editor on Amir Bar Lev’s My Kid Could Paint That, Liz Garbus’ Bobby Fischer Against the World, and edited Jennifer Venditti’s, Billy the Kid. Other documentaries edited by Michael include: Vincent and Shelly Fremont’s Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story, Dan Klores’ The Boys of 2nd St. Park and Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, and more recently, Bartle Bull’s, Cradle of Champions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139906637-RHXEZ1LAYU9506KLXTM9/manhardt+headshot+IMG_1055.JPG Mentors - Mary Manhardt / NY Mary Manhardt is a documentary film editor and consultant, specializing in verite. Her work has screened at festivals including Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Hot Docs, SXSW, Tribeca and IDFA, and appeared on HBO, PBS, MTV, ABC and Netflix. Among her credits: The Farm; The Execution of Wanda Jean; girlhood; Farmingville; Street Fight; American Teen; Racing Dreams; Monica & David; Wham! Bam! Islam!; A Son's Sacrifice; Bronx Princess; Camp Victory, Afghanistan; Pelotero; American Promise; Medora; The Babushkas of Chernobyl; Tig; My Name is Pedro; and If the Dancer Dances. She co-edited and consulted on Making a Murderer, the 10 part doc series for Netflix, which won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards. Mary won an Emmy in 1999 for Picture Editing for The Farm, and was nominated again in 2015 for American Promise. Mary is currently editing I Am Jane Roe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139912169-6J8JL3N36KXN76IOKLJ0/MayaMummaPhoto.jpeg Mentors - Maya Mumma, ACE / NY Maya Mumma, ACE, was an editor on the Academy Award winning documentary O.J.: Made in America for which she was honored with the 2016 Best Editing award from the LA Film Critics Association, an ACE Eddie, and a Primetime Emmy. Maya began her career in the edit room of the Academy Award nominated documentary Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. She has gone on to edit the Emmy nominated films Which Way Is the Front Line From Here: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (HBO) and Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (HBO), the Peabody Award winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (HBO), A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers (TIFF 2015, PBS 2018), the Netflix original series Daughters of Destiny, and King in the Wilderness (HBO), which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1520183752783-SY6E65SOH7FH3LAKFE9O/enatsidi.jpg Mentors - Enat Sidi / NY Enat Sidi is a New York based editor. She is a frequent collaborator with directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, having edited most of their nonfiction feature films including The Boys of Baraka (2005 Emmy nominee), Jesus Camp (2006 Academy Award nominee), HBO’s 12th & Delaware (Peabody winner) and DETROPIA for which Enat won an Emmy and the editing award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In addition, Enat has worked on many prestigious films for a diverse group of filmmakers including Ellen Kuras (The Betrayal) and Jennifer Vendiiti (Billy the Kid). In 2015 she edited The Wolfpack directed by Crystal Moselle (Grand Jury at Sundance 2015) . Her latest editing achievement is a Netflix original with Loki films: One of Us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139888407-4UD8XKENBPFOEX2ZW6KZ/Aljernon+Tunsil+IMG_5993.jpeg Mentors - Aljernon Tunsil / NY Aljernon Tunsil is an Emmy-winning editor who has been editing films on a range of topics from civil rights, Native Americans and political issues for more than a decade. His latest film, the critically-acclaimed The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, premiered at Sundance. His other films include the Emmy-winning films Jesse Owens and Freedom Riders; as well as Freedom Summer about the student volunteers who put their lives on the line to register African-American voters in Mississippi in 1964 and The Abolitionists, a 3-hour documentary film about a brave multiracial abolitionist movement that banded together to end slavery in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640815888850-0BSCK25JVDKQBAV1WPB3/Amend2.jpg Mentors - Kate Amend, ACE / LA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139876471-TJVHP44SR45H3GHDSYPM/geof+headshot+from+him.jpg Mentors - Geoff Bartz, ACE / NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640815940759-8UIPJPJ4K8Y8PQ1V7XR3/eisenhardt3.jpg Mentors - Bob Eisenhardt, ACE / NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1488896848872-U85D02HY61PJYSUW1Z2K/image-asset.jpeg Mentors - Penelope Falk / NY Penelope Falk is best known for her work on Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work which won her an Excellence in Editing award at the Sundance Film Festival. Other partial film credits include: Step (winner of the Sundance Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking, 2017), Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds (premiered Cannes Film Festival 2016, HBO 2017), Maidentrip (winner of the SXSW Audience Award), The New Public (winner of the Golden Cine Award), Smile Til It Hurts (premiered Slamdance Film Festival), Toots (premiered Tribeca Film Festival), Stagedoor (debuted at the New York Film Forum). Partial TV film credits include: Marvin Hamlisch: What I Did For Love (American Experience), Election Day (POV), Unfinished Country (Wide Angle), and Afghan Stories (the Sundance Channel). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1457364853418-QAPQKBBL5H5V6ULQ6XHQ/image-asset.jpeg Mentors - Greg Finton, ACE / LA Greg Finton, ACE, has worked as an editor in film and television for more than twenty-five years. His credits include: He Named Me Malala (2016 BAFTA nominee; ACE Eddie nominee), American High (2001 Emmy Award), It Might Get Loud (2009 IDA nominee, 2009 Satellite Award nominee), Waiting For Superman (2011 AFI Award; 2011 ACE Eddie nominee; 2010 Sundance Audience Award), and The World According To Dick Cheney, which he also co-directed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640815889254-JEZ8O7X9BU9YVNZY3RD9/hamacheck3.jpg Mentors - Matthew Hamachek, ACE / NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1488895952719-DRK9MXPRSY9RGSUX7GDS/image-asset.jpeg Mentors - Pedro Kos / LA Pedro Kos is an award winning editor and director living in Los Angeles. Pedro edited Jehane Noujaim’s Academy Award and Spirit Award nominee, The Square which has also won the DGA and IDA Award for best Feature Documentary film, as well as the Documentary People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Toronto Film Festival. Pedro’s other work includes editing the Academy Award nominated documentary feature Waste Land, directed by Lucy Walker, for which he also won the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize for best documentary editing. The film went on to win Audience Awards at both the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival. Pedro also edited Ms. Walker’s The Crash Reel, which won the Audience Award at the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival. Prior to that he edited Jon Shenk’s The Island President (2011 Toronto Film Festival Documentary People’s Choice Award winner). Additional past work from Pedro includes Elemental, directed by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and Gayatri Roshan and Freida Mock’s Sing China!, on both of which he also served as 2nd Unit Director. In 2008, Pedro was the 2nd unit director on Jessica Sanders’ March Of The Living.Pedro was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and raised both there and in New York City and Miami, Florida. He received his B.A. in Theater Directing from Yale University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525139912169-6J8JL3N36KXN76IOKLJ0/MayaMummaPhoto.jpeg Mentors - Maya Mumma, ACE / NY Maya Mumma was an editor on the Academy Award winning 7.5 hour documentary O.J.: Made in America for which she was honored with a Best Editing award from the LA Film Critics Association, an ACE Eddie Award and a Primetime Emmy. She began her career in the edit room of the Academy Award nominated documentary Restrepo, which won the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. She has gone on to edit the Emmy nominated films Which Way Is the Front Line From Here: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (HBO) and Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley (HBO), the Peabody Award winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (HBO), A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers (TIFF 2015, PBS 2018), and the Netflix original series Daughters of Destiny. Originally from Oklahoma, Maya has a B.A. in Social Anthropology from Boston University and an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640814589720-N2H6IRW8JOGIUSKFPBD4/Oppenheim.jpg Mentors - Jonathan Oppenheim / NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1488897575283-3W5XWIVWQGDK6RVMVAQY/image-asset.jpeg Mentors - Geoffrey Richman, ACE / NY Geoffrey Richman is the editor of Murderball, Sicko, and The Cove - the 2006, 2008, and 2010 Academy Award nominees for Best Feature Documentary, and Time Freak - the 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Live-Action Short Film. The Cove went on to win the Academy Award, after becoming the first documentary to win all four guild awards (Producing, Directing, Writing, and Editing). At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Geoff was awarded a Special Jury Prize for Editing for his work on Murderball. Other documentary credits include God Grew Tired of Us, The Order of Myths, and Racing Extinction. Narrative film credits include Tony Kaye’s Detachment, Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me and Don't Think Twice, and Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups. He most recently completed the Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio climate change doc Before the Flood, and Birbiglia's comedy special for Netflix, Thank God For Jokes. Geoff has also taught editing classes at the Editors Guild, NYU, and The Edit Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1457364931081-6C8UQQP6WZYUZD4HTR4V/image-asset.jpeg Mentors - Kim Roberts, ACE / LA Kim Roberts, ACE, is an Emmy-winning editor of feature documentaries. Her recent work includes The Hunting Ground, American Revolutionary: the Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Waiting for 'Superman' (Paramount), Food, Inc. (nominated for a 2010 Oscar®), Autism the Musical (HBO), and Inequality for All (Radius). Kim won an Emmy for Autism the Musical, her third nomination. She was also nominated for an Eddie award for Food, Inc. and Waiting for ‘Superman’ from the American Cinema Editors. Her other films include: Oscar nominees and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners Daughter from Danang and Long Night’s Journey Into Day; Last Call at the Oasis (Participant); Two Days in October (Peabody and Emmy winner ’06); Made in L.A. (Emmy winner ’09); The Fall of Fujimori (Sundance ’05); Lost Boys of Sudan (Independent Spirit Award ’04); Daddy & Papa (Sundance), and A Hard Straight (Grand Prize, SXSW). Kim received her Masters Degree in Documentary Film Production from Stanford University, where she won a Student Academy Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640814590091-4RR9QOTW2CUCLGJV54UQ/Shimin.jpg Mentors - Toby Shimin / NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640814589391-UHTQS17Y8H9BSLI5ZFFW/Headshot_Teague_web_0.jpg Mentors - David Teague / NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640814590199-NLP0IYL4W8WQSF8W7GOK/Tellefsen.jpg Mentors - Christopher Tellefsen, ACE / NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1640814589700-FCR8Q31YG5MJI1GWNKLQ/JeanTsienBGDM.jpg Mentors - Jean Tsien, ACE / NY http://www.karenschmeer.com/alumni daily 0.75 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/fb1d3046-4a40-4840-a136-01dbfdf7474a/KSFEF_2026_GFM_Bio.001_Crop.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635015310-XWUAH953HVEDVVROUXWX/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Bakalar_Spencer.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Spencer Bakalar / CA Spencer Bakalar is a documentary editor based in Los Angeles. Recently, she edited DREAM BIG: The Michelle Wie Story (2024, Peacock) and The World According to Allee Willis (2024, SXSW Film Festival). Other recent work includes short doc series TOP CLASS: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers (2024, Amazon) and The Rule of Sedona Prince (2022, ESPN). Spencer’s love for storytelling began in North Carolina in the ‘90s, reading with her twin sister on the floor between their beds. That enthusiasm only grew as she directed, filmed and edited short docs as a staff journalist at the Los Angeles Times and TIME Magazine. She was then drawn to focus on long-form storytelling through her first love, editing. Her work has been recognized by SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, IDA, the News and Documentary Emmys, and the Webby Awards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635014772-5GTUMIEYSLW5JDYN117X/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Bernstein_Franny.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Franny Bernstein / NY Franny Bernstein is a Brooklyn based assistant editor at Florentine Films, currently working on a documentary series about Leonardo da Vinci. At Florentine Films, she’s also assisted on Muhammad Ali (2021) and The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022). She’s been passionate about film editing since the age of eight, and that love for the craft has only grown with time. She grew up in the Boston area and graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in Cinema Production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635017543-OMSON6GKD5DULWA61WO1/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Bush_Jenna.png Fellowship Alumni - Jenna A. Bush / NJ Jenna A. Bush is an award winning documentary editor and filmmaker. As a member of the disability community, she is consistently striving for greater representation both on screen and in the edit room. Credits include writing and editing the features Fencing For the Edge and Mallory. She was also associate editor for Patrice: The Movie. This Hulu feature, which highlights disability rights and disabled marriage inequality, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, and the BFI London Film Festival. Jenna's other works have been featured in film festivals around the world and have received a variety of accolades including Best Editing. She is passionate about films that challenge beliefs, foster new perspectives, and awaken compassion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635016957-U3TNA1HJ8GL2FJAM41F0/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Cervano-Soto_Edgardo.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Edgardo Cervano-Soto / CA Edgardo Cervano-Soto is a documentary film and tv series editor. Beginning with recording family road trips as a teenager and crafting early career mini docs on his hometown as a freelance reporter, the documentary form is foundational to Edgardo’s career. His formal start in the film industry began as a post production intern and then assistant editor on multiple Jigsaw Productions projects including Dirty Money and The Clinton Affair for Netflix, A+E, and other networks. His first feature as co-editor, A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks, garnered wide acclaim and received three 2022 News and Doc Emmy nominations including Best Documentary and Outstanding Editing. He is most passionate for visually daring and experimental documentary approaches that amplify social justice causes, LGBTQ experiences, and interrogations into identity and power. Edgardo is a graduate of Stanford University with a degree in Urban Studies. Oakland, California is his current home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635018669-1JCU04Q5JHFAO9WSF7IV/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Cheung_Kevin.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Kevin Cheung / CA Kevin Cheung is an emerging documentary editor based in Los Angeles. As a passionate film lover, Kevin’s interests lead him to studying film editing and he was soon nominated for a Student Editing Award by the American Cinema Editors. Soon afterwards, Kevin was the lead assistant editor on several documentary projects including the feature Nobody Speak: Trials of a Free Press (Sundance 2017) and the Emmy-nominated Netflix docuseries Turning Point: 9/11 And The War On Terror. His editor credits include being co-editor on the short Church and the Fourth Estate (Sundance 2020), junior editor on the Netflix docuseries Web Of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet, and additional editor on the Showtime docuseries Goliath. Outside of work, Kevin’s interests include spending time with his niece and nephew, going out camping, attending concerts, and kind of being a theme park geek. Kevin graduated with a BA from the University of Southern California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635018443-8GIQN6TD4VSLVM1FTK29/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Dalaman_Eda.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Eda Dalaman / NY I am a Turkish film/video editor based in Brooklyn, New York. I was born in Mersin, a Southern coastal town in Turkey; and I moved to New York to study film at NYU. Since the start of my studies, I have focused my skills and ambitions on editing. In the last 9+ years, I have worked in the post-production of documentary and narrative projects for Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Showtime and A24 in addition to editing content for lifestyle, fashion and technology brands like Spotify, Reddit, Google, Condé Nast and Telfar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635020119-QX5HEO5V7HXKMLF363EX/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Giordano_Christine.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Christine Giordano / MD Christine Giordano is an east coast based editor with over fifteen years of production experience in documentary and television. She was the Assistant Editor on the Academy Award winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol. Currently, she is an Editor at GBH in Boston and has worked on multiple seasons of FRONTLINE | PBS. She holds an MA in Media Arts from Emerson College. Her areas of focus include social justice and the environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635019868-VEK09FJ2P7C2VUP6PV9I/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Hoang_Nancy.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Nancy Hoang / NY Nancy Hoang is an assistant editor based in New York City, specializing in documentary series and feature films. Growing up in the Bronx as the daughter of Chinese-Vietnamese immigrants, she was immersed in the rich narratives of her family’s journey and was influenced by the textures of the city’s uncommon diversity. This background inspired her to explore challenging topics that examine questions of power and excavate untold histories. Nancy began her career as an assistant editor on The Ruling Class, a four-part docuseries that explored questions of oligarchy and income inequality in contemporary America. She then worked on the feature documentary Catching Fire: The Anita Pallenberg Story, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Most recently, she worked on the ten-episode, AppleTV+ series The Dynasty: New England Patriots. When Nancy isn’t working, she’s often attending concerts and continuing her quest to find the perfect mocktail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635021778-VLFLXR1VSTGYW9Q726LI/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Indrekar_Abhi.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Abhi Indrekar / MA Born into one of India’s “Denotified and Nomadic Tribes” or “DNT” communities, Abhi identifies as a twice-colonized person — first by the label of inborn criminality applied by the British at the height of their colonial power, and second by the ongoing stigma wielded by a mainstream Indian society still ruled by caste and class hierarchy. Drawing from his upbringing in political street theater, Abhi sees cinema as an important ground for an ever- evolving decolonizing practice. Abhi has over a decade’s experience in documentary editing with some of India’s most respected and daring socio-political filmmakers, including Anand Patwardhan, Dakxin Chhara and Nakul Singh Sawhney. He has worked on documentary and fiction films. Since coming to the US, Abhi’s credits have included Trevor Noah’s Turning Point series for MSNBC and Peacock TV, the World Channel at GBH Boston and PBS, Untold: Netflix, Black Voters Matter documentary among other independent documentary projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635053862-EAOPFLBJEFZB6S8L3M1B/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Jones_Rebecca_Branson.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Rebecca Branson Jones / NC Rebecca Branson Jones (she/they) grew up in southern Davidson County in North Carolina’s rural Piedmont. Raised by public school teachers and influenced by a lineage of hardworking grandparents—dairy farmers and auto mechanics. Her filmmaking journey began at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC where she dedicated six years to producing documentaries that highlighted the culture and music of Western North Carolina. Jones’s path led to a role as an apprentice editor for Ken Burns on the PBS documentary Country Music. After the project was completed in 2019, Rebecca took off on a 1600-mile thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. In 2020, she joined the Ewers Brothers as an assistant editor to work on Hiding In Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness, a four-hour PBS documentary. Rebecca resides on the ancestral lands of the Catawba Peoples in Lexington, North Carolina, creating short films alongside playing local gigs as a pedal steel guitarist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635021471-HZ90L458FVNWTAHVL9OU/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Kunnappillil_Shilpa.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Shilpa Kunnappillil / NY Shilpa Kunnappillil (she/her) is a documentary editor and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Most recently, she co-edited the feature documentary Homegrown, directed by Michael Premo, which premiered in the Critic’s Week section of the 2024 Venice Film Festival. Previously, she has worked as an associate and assistant editor on documentaries that have premiered at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, DOCNYC, and more. She has also received support from Firelight Media and NeXt Doc for her filmmaking work. Shilpa is interested in working on films that center stories from marginalized communities, incite systemic change, and excavate the political from the personal. She aims to edit with care, restraint, and a sense of humor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635022770-TPHA00C1I5MNQF8VAFOI/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Lee_Amy_Chih-Hsin.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Amy Chih-Hsin Lee / CA Amy Chih-Hsin Lee, originally from Taiwan, has since made the United States her home and immersed herself in the dynamic creative scenes of both New York City and now Los Angeles. With over a decade of experience in post-production, she has excelled as an editor, and assistant editor, on a diverse range of projects, including documentaries, narrative films, and commercials in both English and Mandarin. She has collaborated with renowned filmmakers, and various domestic and international organizations, helping create projects that have been shown at DOC NYC, Sundance, Netflix, Golden Horse Film Festival, and more. She loves telling intimate, character-driven stories that create connections between the screen and the audience. She hopes to keep crafting truthful, meaningful work, while seeking to grow and evolve her own style of storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635023666-FAR03JLWOM8PEF4HX9V1/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Lee_Brian.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Brian Lee / NH Brian Lee is a New Hampshire-based assistant editor and motion designer recognized mainly for his work in archival documentaries. Since receiving his degree in Film from Savannah College of Art and Design, Brian has worked primarily at Florentine Films with director Ken Burns where he’s currently Lead Assistant on the upcoming 12-hour series, The American Revolution. Previously, he has been on the editing staff of other PBS series including The Vietnam War, Country Music, Hemingway and Benjamin Franklin and has also moonlighted as a motion designer for other studios and creative agencies including Jigsaw Productions and Ewers Brothers Productions. He’s most passionate about intimate, character-driven storytelling that uses motion design to uplift the subject with beauty and resonance. Brian was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas. When not in the edit suite you’d likely find him bagging peaks in the White Mountains or hosting a board game night with friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635023669-V838IEXD7ON253BRNX25/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Lee-Carroll_+Deijah.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Deijah Lee-Carroll / NY Deijah Lee-Carroll is a Teaneck-grown editor dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices and centering love and care in her work. An avid sports fan, she began her career as an associate producer at Sports Illustrated, producing and editing short docs and other social content including Where Are They Now: Mo'ne Davis. Since then, she has worked as an editor on docuseries including Top Class and LuLaRich, and most recently, as an assistant editor on an unreleased Prince documentary. She studied Film and Television at Boston University and spends her free time catching pop flies and turning circles at contemporary art museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635025059-PR1C15I97O5LMQ7ZK87G/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Lu_Brian.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Brian Lu / IL Brian Lu is a Taiwanese American filmmaker based in Chicago, IL. He is dedicated to telling stories that center Asian American communities within their own narratives. Informed by his background as a dance videographer for local dance crews, he embarked on a journey into documentary through an internship with Kartemquin Films, crafting a creative practice built upon ethical storytelling and guided by an attention to movement and rhythm. He is a proud member of the Asian American Documentary Network and co-founder of the Chicago-based Red Door Media Collective. He was an assistant editor on To the Stranger Who Has Loved You (2020) and Dissidents (2024) which premiered at the VC Film Fest. As a film programmer, Brian has helped program for the Asian American Showcase. His first documentary feature "idols" is in progress, and has been supported by the CID’s Kopkind Residency, A-Doc Allies and the Kartemquin Films Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635025575-211WE82GZHLHPOJ993X6/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_McNeely_Abbey.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Abigail McNeely / NY Abbey McNeely is an emerging New York based editor. Born and raised queer in Alabama, she is passionate about discovering stories from communities that don't often get to speak up for themselves. Filmmaking is fundamentally a storytelling tool, and she loves using the magic of this tool to share perspectives- especially from those often taken for granted. There is nothing she loves more than the feeling of seeing a viewer emotionally impacted by something she cut! She spent six years in the true crime space with series like The Murder Tapes (2020) and Born Evil (2024) for Investigation Discovery, developing a love for everyday people's personal crises and victories. She also learned a lot working for two years on the docuseries Deadlocked: How America Shaped The Supreme Court (2023) for Showtime, finding an appreciation for the value of citizen movements to influence the country as a whole. These influences have given her a firm perspective that even the smallest of actions can make waves on a macro scale, and every story should be treated with the same level of care for its value. She lives in Brooklyn with her girlfriend of five years, her chihuahua mix of ten years, and a loving long-distance family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635025916-VBFEYE9EBKQ2NI8XX3XB/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Monteagudo_Dave.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Dave Monteagudo / NY Dave Monteagudo is a documentary film editor who transitioned to filmmaking following a ten year career in theater. His most recent documentary credits include The Sing Sing Chronicles, 37 Words (dir: Dawn Porter), and the award-winning Giant Screen film Wings Over Water (dir: Andrew Young). He is passionate about stories that inspire audiences to appreciate the beauty of humanity and the natural world and instigate them to challenge the status quo. His work as a theater artist has been featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Goodman Theater, The Museum of the Moving Image, Shakespeare’s Globe, and for seven years he contributed to The Flea Theater in Tribeca as a Resident Director. He is currently working with director Fisher Stevens on his upcoming documentary series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635026317-MLU4KGVWLYHS0S4IFS05/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Ospina_Paula.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Paula Ospina / NY Paula Ospina is a bilingual emerging editor based out of NYC. Her life experiences have influenced her continued desire for utilizing visual mediums to delve deeper into gender, identity, and cultures. Her career began as a video journalist where she produced, filmed, and edited short form videos. She started as an assistant editor with a desire to hone her editing skills in feature documentaries. Her works include assistant editing Carla Gutierrez on her directorial debut Frida, which won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, as well as assistant editing on The Sharp Edge of Peace, which premiered at the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival. She is excited to continue evolving and learning with each project to master the art of editing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635027457-O58TCV5MQKQLJFSXYKYL/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Shamlian_Sylvie.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Sylvie Shamlian / NY Brooklyn-based editor and film programmer, Sylvie Shamlian, has been working in film and tv professionally since 2018, shortly after graduating from Columbia College Chicago’s film program. Specializing in the technical back-end of finishing and turnover, she’s worked on documentary features and Emmy-nominated series alike, with works premiering and winning awards at Sundance, SXSW, Telluride, and Tribeca and eventually streaming for networks like HBO, Amazon, Netflix, and ESPN. She prefers to work on projects that question established structures formally and organically, often collaborating with other queer voices and implementing her decades of musical experience on every project. Outside of documentary, her work in arthouse and repertory film exhibition has brought films from overlooked filmmakers, genres, and identities to the forefront, commissioning new translations, editing video essays, and creating promotional materials for dozens of films along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635028166-SKIYR8R5CF72NJCGJ9MC/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Stiles_Christina.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Christina Stiles / CA Christina Stiles is an LA-based documentary editor passionate about crossing language barriers to tell stories from all corners of the world. She is best known for editing Red Penguins (TIFF 2019) which was nominated for Best Sports Documentary at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, and Best Documentary Screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards. Most recently, she edited Riders on the Storm (SXSW 2023) and was on the 2023 DOC NYC 40 Under 40 list. Other highlights include Gabe Polsky’s In Search of Greatness (2018), Lucy Walker’s Bring Your Own Brigade (Sundance, 2021), the New York Times Op- Doc Mapping the Disability Trap, and the Olympic Channel Original Series By Her Rules. Christina also consults on films and edits commercials between features. She is looking forward to her year ahead under the legacy of Karen Schmeer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635028378-ZG23HY2MSUJQGS3RV9NQ/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Yang_Brooks.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Brooks Yang / CA Brooks Yang is a filmmaker and editor with extensive experience in the documentary world. Her credits include a forthcoming documentary on an art forger and Associate Producer on Love, Charlie (Netflix). She is currently an Associate Editor on a limited doc series for Netflix about social media. Her AE work includes feature films and limited doc series for Netflix, Hulu and HBO. She holds an MFA in Directing from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton. Her father is Chinese- American and mother is white; she grew up in Missouri. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727635029529-YWS4NQXIUVGEIJCS0ORA/KSFEF2024-25_FELLOW_Yue_Emily.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Emily Yue / NY Emily Yue is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Emily works mostly as an emerging editor on documentary and narrative films and is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Alliance of Documentary Editors, and the Editors Guild. They are currently lead editing on an upcoming feature documentary, directing their first feature documentary, and recently were a 2023 Sundance Contributing Editor Fellow. Some of Emily's recent post-production credits include Spermworld (FX), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (NEON), and The Rescue (National Geographic). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748422709-77ZP0H0D42BDMJQC1P85/Ahrens_Elise.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Elise Ahrens / NY Elise Ahrens is a Hudson Valley based assistant editor and editor. She got her start in broadcast news as an AE and overnight Junior Editor at ABC and NBC before transitioning into documentary. After dedicating three years to associate editing Loudmouth about the Reverend Al Sharpton, the film premiered as the Closing Night Selection of Tribeca in 2022 and was picked up by Greenwich Entertainment and Showtime. Her goal is to contribute to compelling storytelling that communicates underrepresented perspectives, splunk through archives, and reframe moments in history with a focus on social justice, the role of art in society, and their expression through interpersonal relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748423779-O2CCVMZAY5XDO0RPSVIT/Amyx_Nicole.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Nicole Amyx / SF Nicole Amyx is a Mexican-American filmmaker and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She fell in love with the world of cinema at the age of 10 after watching her dad work as a film editor. She got her BA in Cinema from San Francisco State University and her MA in Documentary Filmmaking from Leeds Beckett University in the U.K. Nicole loves using documentary filmmaking as a platform to help drive change and evoke emotion and believes that filmmakers have the unique privilege of getting to share remarkable stories from out in the world. Working on a wide range of films, she is particularly passionate about female driven stories. She was recently an Assistant Editor on Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Hello Sunshine documentary Fair Play and is currently working on a couple of projects with Oscar- winning filmmakers such as Louie Psihoyos (The Cove); Sara Dosa (Fire of Love) and award winning director Josh Murphy (Artifishal). Nicole’s deep love for filmmaking and editing has created a fire in her belly that she hopes will only continue to grow alongside her career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748423603-JDZ7DUQYJ3XEYGVECSKV/Auday_Emily_M.jpg Fellowship Alumni - M Auday / LA M Auday is an LA-based assistant editor who specializes in documentaries and docuseries. Born and raised in small town Massachusetts, M discovered a passion for editing through a high school internship with a local access station. Since graduating from Loyola Marymount University, M has assisted on a number of documentaries and docuseries for HBO, Showtime, and PBS. A proud alum of Film Independent’s Project Involve Fellowship, M edited LGBT short film HARD, which screened at festivals including Outfest Fusion, Atlanta’s Out on Film, and Hollyshorts. M is passionate about diverse representation in post production and throughout the film industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748424201-1WDAW42PKDJO7GG3283U/Bingham_Dana.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Dana Y. Bingham / AR Dana Y. Bingham is a producer and editor with an eye for compelling documentary storytelling that inspires discussion and a fresh outlook on the world around us. Propelled by a lifelong curiosity for authentic stories, Dana attended the historic Howard University, where she received a BA in Film Production and the prestigious Paul Robeson Award for Best Student Documentary. She went on to receive a MA in Video Production from New York Institute of Technology and intern at Spike Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule FilmWorks. After her tenure as a multi-platform programming strategist at Nickelodeon, she reignited her passion for documentary filmmaking. She is credited as additional editor on the Netflix documentary series Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hop Hop (2023) and director and editor for her short, Behind the Question (2021), which was awarded the Brooklyn Free Speech TV: People’s Choice Award. Her other notable credits include the PBS documentary series The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow and Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed. Additionally, she is a member of Gamma Xi Phi, a fraternity for artists and creators, and editing mentor for the Kashif Brownsville Initiative. Dana splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and Helena, AR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748424978-8TJR9F783ON4I93EV7UG/Cabrera-Aragon_Sara.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Sara Cabrera-Aragon / MI Sara Cabrera-Aragon is a documentary editor from Toronto. Having grown up in a city filled with diversity she has always been drawn to the stories people have to tell. She has worked as an editor in television and film for the past ten years, her work has shown on networks such as Netflix, CBC and Discovery+. Sara's passion lies in storytelling that amplifies voices from underrepresented communities. Her first feature documentary 3 Seconds Divorce, about Muslim activist women in India fighting for a ban on oral divorce, was an official selection at the Mumbai International Film Festival and streamed on Netflix. Her second feature documentary Pandora's Box about menstrual equity premiered at the Whistler Film Festival and won the 'Special Jury Award' from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sara intends to continue to work on projects that push boundaries and create human connections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748425188-R0GU2SM26S5S7NB6J08B/Chavez_Berenice.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Berenice Chavez / LA Berenice Chavez is a bilingual Latina documentary film editor based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute in 2016 and her BA from University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 2013. She produced and edited two short documentaries during her time at UNLV, Passing the Torch and North to Paradise, both of which received a total of three Student Emmy Award nominations. Her first feature documentary as editor, On the Divide, had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in 2021. She was an associate editor for Amazon’s Good Night Oppy, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in 2022. Most recently, Berenice edited Pamela, A Love Story which is currently streaming on Netflix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748426366-UYD1POABPU8KGJED1M7X/Clarke_Celine.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Celine Clarke / NY My name is Celine Clarke and I am an Editor based in NYC. My family are from a small Caribbean island named Grenada, but I was born and raised in London. Growing up, my parents encouraged my creativity and helped me to discover a love for painting. My relationship with visual storytelling later transitioned into a love for editing during college. I feel most inspired when I have time to watch the sunset and reflect, and when I spend time with my loved ones. I enjoy scenic train rides, British candy and my Dad’s Sunday breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748427893-E7ZTGIQFW1MVIS6ARGNF/Dahlin_Raven.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Raven Dahlin / NY Raven Dahlin is an emerging documentary film editor based out of Brooklyn, New York. With a fervent passion for storytelling, she works to weave narratives that captivate, challenge beliefs, and evoke empathy. She has collaborated on projects ranging from indie gems to prominent productions for major networks such as HBO, Netflix, Amazon, and PBS, including two Emmy-nominated documentary series. She currently lives in Bed-Stuy with her husband, where they enjoy eating out, going to the movies, and long walks in the park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748428293-M3KVBCBHZMWA6XSDTHP0/French_Jeanna.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Jeanna French / AZ Jeanna French is a film editor whose work has aired on HBO, PBS, and all over the world. After graduating with a Film/TV studies degree at University of Arizona in 2012, Jeanna began her career as an editor and later post-production supervisor for all nine seasons of the PBS series In the Americas with David Yetman. She edited short, HBO documentary Brillo Box (3¢ off), which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards and an official selection of the New York Film Festival. In 2016, she edited short doc A Few Things About Robert Irwin for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s annual Art + Film Gala, as well as A Few Things About Art+Film celebrating ten years of LACMA’s Art + Film Gala in 2020. Jeanna edited feature length doc Gustav Stickley: American Craftsman detailing the life and work of Gustav Stickley, father of the American Arts + Crafts movement. Recently, she finished editing documentary Firelighters: Fire is Medicine that follows Yurok and Karuk burning rights activists, set to air on PBS in 2024. Outside the edit room, Jeanna’s photography has exhibited at several exhibitions at the Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece and recently, at the Chania International Photography Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748431350-ZRW85LPJRAMJVXT54ULH/Garrahan_Sarah.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Sarah Garrahan / LA Sarah Garrahan (she/her) is a documentary editor from San Antonio, Texas. She co-produced and was an additional editor on the hybrid documentary The Infiltrators by Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and was awarded the NEXT Audience and Innovator Awards. She edited the Emmy-nominated feature documentary Building the American Dream by Chelsea Hernandez, which premiered at SXSW in 2019. She edited the feature documentary Silent Beauty by Jasmin López, which premiered at the 2022 Hot Docs Film Festival. She holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. She is a former Flaherty Fellow (2013) and Felsman Fellow (2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748434532-AL12W0NBUPFBXG3UVUQT/Glebova_Tanya.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Tanya Glebova / NY Tanya Glebova is a New York based editor and researcher collaborating with teams across Europe and the US. She has assisted on Axios TV series (HBO, 2018), Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey (Netflix, 2022). In 2020, she completed her first feature film as an editor, Am I Beautiful (Televisor Troika GmbH). She worked as a documentary researcher and associate producer for European productions - Boogaloo Film, Spain; Toolbox Films, Denmark; Diana Naecke, Germany, etc. Her directorial debut Village Vibe premiered at LIFF (LBI, NJ) in 2019. In January 2023, with the support of the FILMSHOP community, she completed her second project – documentary poem I Am Not Going Back. Since 2020, she is a Member of The Alliance of Documentary Editors. Tanya was born in Siberia and lived in India and Turkey before coming to New York. Her exposure to different cultures helps her to have a varied perspective while working in the documentary field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748438830-Z4KY009FREI1S3ABN8XR/Gonzalez_Katyann.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Katyann Gonzalez / NY Katyann Gonzalez is a Honduran-Irish Editor born and raised in New York. She cares deeply about bringing light to issues around immigrant justice, queer liberation, the environmental crisis, and intersectional feminism. Her assistant editor credits include feature-length documentaries like Time Bomb: Y2K, Sisters on Track, and Warrior Women, and she has edited short documentaries and narrative shorts. She also works as a colorist, most recently color grading a feature-length doc entitled Divisible, directed by Lizzy Barrett, about redlining in Omaha, Nebraska. Her work has screened on major streaming platforms as well as at festivals like True False, Doc NYC, Sheffield, and more. With a background in all things post-production her diverse work experience informs a flexible and creative approach to storytelling. In her free time, Katyann enjoys music, dancing, traveling, camping, cycling, and cooking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748438751-IVPB2FIMTBPVS729C690/He_Yijun.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Yijun He / NY Yijun He is an editor based in NYC and has worked in both TV and documentary films. Most recently she was the associate editor for the Disney+ series, Choir. She was the associate editor for the Netflix documentary Found, and the Netflix doc series Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes. Previously, she was the additional editor for the Showtime doc series Murder in the Bayou. In addition, she had worked on award-winning films including Hooligan Sparrow and Complicit. Yijun was born and raised in China. She speaks fluent Mandarin and English. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748439718-PE4Y7I4DDL72GBDZWY0R/Herde_Chris.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Chris Herde / NY Chris is an editor based in New York City. Her love of filmmaking was born out of contemporary dance- her first forays into film were as an assistant choreographer to dance filmmaker Noemie LaFrance- and she brings this sense of movement to her film work. Her documentary editing can be seen on HBO, Showtime, Hulu, VICE, ABC, NBC Universal, the Olympic Channel, and more. She’s worked on several Emmy-nominated shows like VICE on Showtime and The Circus. She’s most passionate about intimate, character-driven storytelling and films that tackle social justice issues. Her work as an editor and co-producer on America’s first transgender legislator was recognized with a GLAAD award in 2017, and her work as an editor on VICE’s coverage of the war in Yemen received a News and Documentary Emmy in 2021. Her latest feature, No Accident, with director Kristi Jacobson, will air on HBO in 2023. When not in the edit suite, you’ll most likely find her surfing in the Rockaways or drawing charcoal portraits of woodland animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748440989-8ST1HLTZXFT5NHS81J3O/Jacobson_Sarah.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Sarah Jacobson / NY Sarah Jacobson is a Brooklyn-based documentary editor and filmmaker. Her passion for character-driven, non-linear storytelling lies in its power as an empathy-building tool. Ranging from Vimeo Staff Pick shorts to the Emmy Award-winning feature, We Could Be King (Tribeca 2014), she has worked on projects that have screened internationally and across the US at festivals such as SXSW, Full Frame, BAMCinemaFest and Telluride MountainFilm Festival. In recent years, she co-edited the feature documentary Us Kids (Sundance 2020), worked as an associate editor on the feature documentary CUSP (Sundance 2021), and edited the feature documentary No One Told Me, an observational documentary about the postpartum experience. In addition to her editing work, she co- directed Have No Fear (Visions du Réel, 2017) which follows activist and choreographer Adia Whitaker as she teaches her children how to avoid becoming victims of police brutality through performance. She is currently wrapping post-production on her most recent film, Jewel Streets, which introduces viewers to a NYC neighborhood that is perpetually flooded with toxic water. Sarah was a 2016 fellow at the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio and is a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748441939-X9D79ZJAX1VY4CHRLBCV/Karpas_Laura.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Laura Karpas / NY Laura Karpas is an Editor from Brooklyn, NY whose work has appeared on Netflix, HBO, Starz, NatGeo, Peacock, and PBS. Some of her notable assistant editing credits include the SXSW Grand Jury Award Winner Master of Light; the Peabody Award winning series High On The Hog; and the Emmy award winning feature The Apollo. Her latest editing credits include Let us Prey and SXSW Audience Award Winner, The Return of Tanya Tucker. With an intense curiosity for people and their unique histories, Laura hopes to utilize and hone her skills to tell a range of stories through documentaries. She is especially passionate about the importance of creating nuanced portraits from within the LGBTQ community, as our portrayals throughout the media continue to be vastly under and misrepresented. In her free time you can find her in the garden, making art, learning a new craft, or in an internet deep dive researching a random and highly specific topic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748443348-OA7ERXSKC76X230TUSB6/Luyo_Ruolin.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Ruolin Luyo / LA Ruolin Luyo, a filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles, graduated from CalArts Film&Video MFA in 2018. Her initial professional roles as an assistant editor, collaborating with accomplished directors such as Laura Nix and Leo Chiang, provided her with a solid foundation in both the technical and creative aspects of editing. Over the past two years, Ruolin has achieved a significant breakthrough in her career. During this time, she edited numerous short documentaries that amplify the voices of Asian American communities and immigrants more broadly. Notably, she served as the lead editor for the short doc series: Modern Asians: Unique & Unified. She also co-edited From Dreams to Dust (Doc NYC official selection), a thought-provoking exploration of the darker aspects of sustainable energy. Ruolin’s particularly passionate about character-driven documentaries, and she is dedicated to using her editing skills to uplift unheard voices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748443667-XFI329JDG4KFNAF392PA/Rappaport_Ilana.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Ilana Rappaport / SF Ilana Rappaport is a Berkeley based documentarian, video editor, and musician. She received her BA in Film and Digital Media from University of California, Santa Cruz, graduating with a Production Concentration and a focus in Electronic Music. Over the last several years, she has worked as an Assistant Editor and Video Editor for post production houses, ad agencies, and film production companies throughout the Bay Area. She worked as the lead assistant editor on the film Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir which premiered at Sundance 2021. Ilana is a drummer from a family of professional musicians and specializes in editing to sound. She is an archivist and technical editor whose work centers women filmmakers, musicians, and the LGBTQ community whenever possible. Ilana enjoys spending time in nature, drawing, and identifying birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748444325-69W3KWQ0009H3CJXKZT3/Rong_Samuel.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Samuel Rong / IL Sam Rong has over a decade of experience in multimedia storytelling in journalism and film. He has worked in newsrooms and production houses in Asia, Africa, and North America. His work has shown on Al-Jazeera, CNN, Vice, eNews Channel Africa, and PBS. He was the editor of the Al Jazeera documentary Gateless and a director of photography for two PBS Chicago documentary series—Firsthand and Chicago Stories. Sam was the editor of Faceless, a feature-length doc about the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests, which has been shown at Hot Docs and the Busan Film Festival. He was also most recently the editor of feature docs The Faraway, Nearby and Ashima, both of which have festival premieres scheduled in 2023. Sam is currently editing two feature docs, EJ Lee: All-American and What Happened to Danny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748444560-7GOKBZE8XAQGHALMAKZM/Santos_Luisa.jpg Fellowship Alumni - María Luisa Santos / SF María Luisa Santos is a Costa Rican director, editor and writer. She’s interested in stories dealing with place, memory, and personal loss. Her latest short film, Direcciones, won Best Short Documentary at SFFILM 23’ and will be released in The New Yorker in the fall of 2023. She produced and edited the feature film Stay Here Awhile which aired on national television with PBS as part of the ReelSouth 2023 season. Her work has been shown in The New Yorker, SXSW, PBS, Slamdance, New Orleans FF, SFFILM, Big Sky and others. She is currently the editor of the feature film World of Mountaintops, directed by Carlo Nasisse and Geronimo Barrera. Read and see more of María Luisa’s work at: www.marialuisasantos.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748446608-8O48ST2MR3HMLV7958TA/Shake_Ryan.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Ryan Shake / SF Ryan is a multiracial, Bay Area-based filmmaker and editor with two decades of post- production experience. Originally from Indiana, Ryan discovered a sense of belonging when he moved to the diverse culture of San Francisco. His career started as an assistant editor and then transitioned to post-production supervisor. His experience includes independent documentaries and shows for PBS, Frontline, Nova, Discovery, National Geographic, and HBO. His focus then shifted to editing, and he worked on short films featured at the Skoll World Forum. He was an Additional Editor for an independent documentary, City of Borders, and an editor on a Discovery Science series and a National Geographic show. Ryan then accepted an offer to be the Senior Editor at a tech company, where he created documentary- style marketing videos. While there, he directed a short documentary on sustainable fishing, Clear Waters, which was featured at festivals in California and Virginia. After five years, he left the corporate world to pursue his passion for documentary filmmaking by freelance editing on various projects. He is most passionate about telling visually compelling stories with dynamic subjects. In his free time, he loves traveling with his family and spending time on the ocean, either fishing or surfing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748447349-UJZ4AYTEMKJSS2HC337L/Shom_Bipasha.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Bipasha Shom / LA Bipasha Shom studied Cultural Anthropology at Cornell University and was granted a full fellowship for an MA in Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. After moving to Los Angeles, she became an assistant editor at commercial post house Spot Welders, as well as Rock Paper Scissors where she worked with Oscar winning editor Angus Wall. After moving up to editor she cut campaigns for Subaru, Gatorade, Yahoo and others. She was the editor for the indie fiction feature, Dahmer, which was nominated for three Independent Spirit awards and introduced Jeremy Renner. Her work for renowned video artist Doug Aitken has been exhibited at MOCA in Los Angeles. In the 2000’s, Bipasha became the mother of two children, which left little time for editorial. Seeking work with more traditional hours, she became a producer for KPFK Pacifica Radio's progressive news show 'Uprising'. She also produced the successful podcast, “The Other F Word: Stories about Failure”. In recent years, she decided to pursue her original love, documentary cutting the documentary feature Fatal Distraction which won the Atlanta Docufest Audience Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748448279-RJNJ2HQVVEZG3ZGEQ2KC/Trasborg_Catherine.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Catherine Trasborg / NY Catherine Trasborg is an Emmy nominated film & TV editor based in the Greater New York area. Starting as an assistant editor for narrative and documentary films, including PBS/ Frontline’s Kind Hearted Woman, she moved into the world of editing for an assortment of unscripted and scripted television series, including The Daily Show. Her and her editing team’s edit and graphic work on the documentary feature The 5th Man was noted as “Deeply affecting and visually stunning” in Filmmaker Magazine. A graduate from Emerson College, Catherine minored in visual studies and received her BA in film production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748449547-N0BW87ALVSDD0MSMZCTE/Vazquez_Oscar.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Oscar Vazquez / LA Oscar Vazquez is a film editor and proud native Angeleno. He first fell in love with documentary editing after watching Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson and has not looked back since. Spanning a varied six-year career, Oscar has worked on doc features, series, experimental films, and that one time he cut Instagram videos for Mark Ronson's personal page. His most recent editing credits include Bono and the Edge: A Sort of Homecoming on Disney+ and Watch the Sound on AppleTV. He spends a lot of time trying to convince both himself and his parents that his identity as a Gemini, with its intrinsic duality, is a perfect fit for an editing career -- a craft similarly built on the juxtaposition of competing feelings and thoughts towards a cohesive whole (but really, he's just not that good at anything else.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748451038-8JWFH7QL5KIJZQN8LSF9/Vizcarrondo_Nina.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Nina Vizcarrondo / TX Nina Vizcarrondo is an editor (and filmmaker) who has worked in the industry for over 14 years. She recently edited the feature documentaries Shouting Down Midnight (Dir. South by Southwest 2022 / MSNBC) and At the Ready (Sundance 2021 / HBO). She has also edited several short documentaries for Fin & Fur films and was the additional editor on their feature The River and the Wall, which won the Lone Star Award at SXSW 2019. She most recently cut a forthcoming documentary short about an overlooked 1980 KKK shooting and its historic legal impact (How to Sue the Klan). Her work often focuses on the hispanic diaspora and immigration issues. Nina holds an MFA from UT Austin, where she directed and edited various narrative and documentary shorts. She currently resides in Austin with her partner, toddler and dog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748450970-VVSPMQBRH5I9T35O20GJ/Yslas_Meranda.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Meranda Yslas / NY Meranda Yslas is an emerging documentary film editor with experience as a video journalist. Currently, she is an Associate Editor on Rabbi, a feature-length documentary about a revolutionary queer Rabbi, who leads a god-optional, artist driven, and everybody friendly synagogue. Previously, she was an AE at CNN for its long-form documentary team and Gidalya Pictures. She also worked as a video producer for Business Insider. Originally from Arizona, she is interested in immigration, Latin America, gender politics, and where they intersect. As a bilingual Mexican-American storyteller, she loves the opportunity to work in both languages. She obtained a BA in Journalism and Spanish Literature from New York University, with a minor in Documentary. In her free time she likes to foster dogs, buy too many books, and lift weights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1727748451817-3RWW42XNYFT5DE3JZCT4/Zweig_Benjamin.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Benjamin Zweig / MO Benjamin Zweig is a documentary film editor specializing in archival rich storytelling. He has worked in the field for over 15 years, starting out as an assistant editor for numerous documentary films produced in the Bay Area. Some of his early work includes Dolores (Peter Bratt), The Bandit (Jesse Moss), The Mask You Live In (Jennifer Siebel Newsom), and The Way I See It (Dawn Porter.) He has recently completed his first lead editor feature, The Lady Bird Diaries, also directed by Dawn Porter, which premiered at SXSW and will air on Hulu later this year. He is currently pursuing a graduate studies degree in documentary journalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293093865-LH0HC08A8688BUG9DAQ7/headshot+-+Kylee+Acevedo.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Kylee Acevedo / SF Kylee Acevedo / SF Kylee Acevedo is an editor, assistant editor, and post-production supervisor from Southeastern Massachusetts. She has edited for over a decade, often gravitating toward environmental stories & social justice projects, as well as uplifting marginalized voices. Her work has aired or is forthcoming on PBS, The New Yorker, and HBO. Her most recent credits include the Emmy award-winning series, The New Environmentalists, Ahead of the Curve, and Holding Moses, with many more in production. A graduate of Fitchburg State University’s film program, she is currently based in the SF Bay Area with her two cats and beloved Chihuahua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293099440-1JG3F8MIHQWTP6T5YIK2/JasonAlarcon_KarenSchmeer_2022+-+Jason+Alarcon.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Jason Alarcón / SF Jason Alarcón / SF Jason Alarcón is a queer, Latinx film editor and producer based in San Francisco. He discovered his passion as a teenager while producing a short documentary about his Peruvian father. Since graduating from Columbia University, he has assisted several television series and feature films, including Oscar-nominated How to Survive a Plague about AIDS activism, and Emmy Award-winning “Independent Lens” on PBS. Jason was an editor on several shorts, like Tiny Little Planets, a queer coming of age narrative, and an additional editor on features, like CHASING about a team that rows across the Atlantic Ocean. While at Goodby, Silverstein & Co, he worked on multiple advertising campaigns and supported Courageous Conversations’ “Not A Gun" campaign against systemic violence. Jason was a 2020 Sundance Art of Editing fellow, and a lead assistant editor on 37 Words, a 4-part ESPN+ series on Title IX’s journey into protecting women and gender-fluid children within sports and beyond. He currently serves on the steering committee of the Alliance of Documentary Editors and is a co-president of the Video Consortium Bay Area, where he champions local, diverse filmmakers. In the edit room and beyond, Jason continues to advocate for queer, women, trans, non-binary, disabled, racial minorities, and other underrepresented voices in media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293084155-UD87KQWT17MBOQDZLFJH/Cheryl+Beadling+-+Cheryl+Beadling.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Cheryl Beadling / NY Cheryl Beadling / NY Cheryl is a Filpina-American filmmaker that was born and raised in the Bay Area and is currently based in New York. She has almost a decade of experience in Post Production, working on various projects from feature documentaries to digital content for networks such as HBO, Netflix, and Facebook Watch. Cheryl graduated from San Francisco State University with a Bachelors of Arts in Cinema. She’s a proud member of the Brown Girls Doc Mafia and The Irregulars Collective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293086032-FIBU4B7VWW0AG15PNGWI/Daniel+Chavez-Ontiveros+Bio+Pic+-+Daniel+Cha%CC%81vez.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros / SF Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros / SF Daniel Chávez-Ontiveros is a Mexican documentary feature editor who lives and works in the California Bay Area. His credits include 499 (2020) and Sansón and me (2022), both directed by Rodrigo Reyes. These films have won several awards in such festivals as Tribeca, HotDocs, and Sheffield Doc Fest. Currently, he’s editing Set Hernandez Rongkilyo’s first feature unseen and Sanctuary rising directed by Theo Rigby & Florencia Krochink. He’s interested in working on projects that explore the themes of immigration, social justice, and Latin American representation. As assistant editor, Daniel has participated in several features and shorts films such as “Los Hermanos/Two Brothers” (Dir. Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider), Higher 15 (Dir. Ameha Molla), and Water For Life (Dir. Will Parrinello). Additionally, he's one of the co-directors of Video Consortium México (VCMX), an organization that builds community in the documentary scene and promotes the work of emerging filmmakers. He has also directed short films, the most distinguished one, The Swan, which was honored with the Youth Vision Award at the United Nations Associations Film Festival (UNAFF 2017) and the Audience Award in the Program of Sexual Diversity at the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM 2016). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293092199-4YUPAXX08JUQAAHFO7ME/Gustavo_Curi_KS+-+Gustavo+Curi.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Gustavo Curi / NY Gustavo Curi / NY Gustavo Curi is a New York City based multilingual video editor with a solid background in filmmaking, writing and visual arts. He has worked on short and feature documentary projects for ABC, Discovery+, Natgeo, Netflix and others. His recent work includes a feature documentary on the Capitol riot for Discovery+ (as co-editor and sound editor), a feature documentary special on the Notre-Dame fire for ABC and French channel TF1, as well as short documentaries for Al Gore's The Climate Project. Gustavo wants to continue to edit stories that will shed light into a subject and enlighten you in the process, projects that will engage your mind and possibly change your heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293104420-EXMGZTX5WOOTGD83GRIE/KatrinaDeVera-Photo+-+Katrina+De+Vera.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Katrina De Vera / TX Katrina De Vera / TX Katrina De Vera is an Austin-based documentary film editor who was born and raised in South Texas to immigrant parents. Her passion for editing stems from a penchant for collaboration and a deep curiosity for exploring the human condition. Her experience serving as the lead assistant editor on the observational feature Pahokee (Sundance 2019) led her to discover a love for verite filmmaking. She later went on to assistant edit on the award-winning feature film A Thousand Cuts (Sundance 2020), and recently edited the short film Bring Them Home (2022) which was released by The Washington Post. A Run for More (2022) was her first solo edit on a feature film. Katrina believes that respect, trust, and transparency lie at the center of documentary filmmaking, and will always have a soft spot for stories that feel close to home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293079043-QM6WWWO1W287DV9FRWO9/20220825_220057+-+Tiffany+Dixon.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Tiffany Dixon / LA Tiffany Dixon / LA Tiffany Dixon is a documentary editor based out of Los Angeles. She has nine years of post-production experience in documentary long form and features, including the Netflix series The Keepers (2017) and documentary feature Most Likely to Succeed (2019). She was a contributing editor in the Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab in 2019 for Time (2020) which was nominated for an Academy Award. Her recent edit credits include A Spark Story (2021), a profile of two SparkShort directors at Pixar, and Sketchbook (2022) a six-part series on Disney artists sharing their creative journeys (including Frozen animator Hyun Min Lee and The Lion King animator Mark Henn) as they teach how to sketch iconic Disney characters. She is drawn to emotional stories of the underdog, BIPOC characters, and innovative storytelling. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from UNC Chapel Hill and is a Morehead-Cain Scholar Alum. She was born to a Black father and a Korean mother in Garmisch, Germany and raised in San Diego, CA. In her downtime, she enjoys cooking and playing expert-level Beat Saber on her Oculus headset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293087908-K71DJJWB3KO86GPWNUH9/Dahlia+Fischbein+-+dahlula.png Fellowship Alumni - Dahlia Fischbein / NY Dahlia Fischbein / NY I am an Argentine-born New York-based film editor and video artist. What I enjoy most about documentary projects is all the research and exploration that a new subject involves. I see the crafting of a story as a collaborative process where the team works together through creative problem-solving. I have an intuitive rhythmic sense and I really enjoy editing music-driven pieces. In the last few years I had the opportunity to collaborate as an Associate Editor, CoEditor, and Editor in documentary films commissioned by MSNBC Universal, National Geographic, Discovery Network and HBO among others. In addition to my work as an editor, I have designed visuals for multidisciplinary events such as theater performances, fashion shows and music concerts. My experimental video-art work has been shown in galleries, festivals, and art fairs in US, Europe, and South America such as The Shed, Scope Miami , Scope New York, Athens Video Art Festival, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, PACE University Gallery, FlickerFilm LA, Museum Quartier (Vienna), Galerii Fotografic (Prague), and FICS (El Salvador). I studied Political Science and Film in Buenos Aires and then Film in The New School in New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293105206-C1H96WOGB1V33EQWXZGU/IMG_6255+-+Victoria+Guillem.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Victoria Guillem / NY Victoria Guillem / NY Victoria Guillem is a filmmaker, editor and assistant editor based in Brooklyn. She graduated with a BA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts for Film & TV where she focused on documentary and experimental filmmaking. Her films have been screened in the Anthology Film Archives New Filmmakers series, Universe Multicultural Film Festival, and Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, among others. Victoria is drawn to editing because of of her passion for expressing emotions and stories through cinema that cannot be expressed in words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293082514-S0R10CQVMO2D28JEHI7W/BethKearsleyHeadshot+-+Beth+Kearsley.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Beth Kearsley / UT Beth Kearsley / UT Beth Kearsley is an assistant editor from Salt Lake City, Utah. After graduating from The University of Utah with an HBA in Film and Media Arts, she assumed her first role as an assistant editor on the feature narrative, Roost, which premiered at TIFF in 2022. Since then, Beth has assisted on several feature documentaries, including Bitterbrush (Telluride 2021), Free Chol Soo Lee (Sundance 2022), and the upcoming PLAN C (anticipated release 2023). She appreciates documentary editing for its limitless possibilities in storytelling and looks forward to expanding her career in the field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293082192-JGLF9RKDX46HU5M8NBDN/C770F43C-E9D4-474F-A374-8245928C0C2B+-+Christina+Kelly.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Christina Kelly / NY Christina Kelly / NY Christina Kelly (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based editor and visual artist. She started her editing career as an assistant editor on indie films, then went on to edit the LGBTQ+ festival favorites Between Love and Goodbye and A Four Letter Word, and the feature length documentary Dance School about Juilliard students. For several years she worked as an editor and post supervisor for In the Life Media. After taking a hiatus from film and TV to spend more time with her son, she got back into editing working on her own videos and animations. Recent projects include editing a performance of Julius Eastman’s The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc for UCLA Tune-In Festival, a series of short docs about women entrepreneurs tackling climate issues in their communities for The Story Exchange, and a feature documentary about the trailblazing opera director Rhoda Levine. As an artist, Christina’s works have been screened in galleries as well as at the New Festival, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Animation Block Party, Paris Short Film Festival, and Lighthouse Film Festival. She has received support for her work from the Brooklyn Arts Council, LLMC, and the Outer Cape Artist Consortium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293238467-MYTUMNTQK1GAIX4BC7XL/Drigan_IMG_2225.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Drigan Lee / LA Drigan Lee / LA I'm a queer film editor from Lancaster, PA. I’ve worked as an actor in film/TV and on stages around the country, directed plays and short films, and creative directed campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. But over the past decade my passion and focus has shifted exclusively to documentary editing. I love the poetry of great story structure, the rigor of navigating subjective reality, and the puzzle of complex software. I get to play with LEGOs for a living. I feel like I’ve hacked The Matrix. I am currently editing the BamaRush documentary for Rachel Fleit, Vice Studios, and HBO Max. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293079167-RT16L9GC19B5F1XD6MUZ/B863EAF1-66D9-4F10-A1BD-3F46510E9257+-+Tessa+Malsam.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Tessa Malsam / CO Tessa Malsam / CO Tessa Malsam is a film editor based in Denver, Colorado. Her work has been split between documentary film and commercial work, affording her opportunities to work on projects with David O Russell, Alejandro Iñárritu, and Jeff Orlowski. After graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in Journalism, Tessa spent three years in Los Angeles assisting in editing nationally broadcast campaigns for a wide range of clients. More recently, Tessa has pivoted her focus to documentary filmmaking, working on the edit teams of various projects, including the Emmy awarded Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, the Patagonia feature Newtok, and The Grab, the latest exposé from filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish) set to premiere at TIFF this September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293112176-FL1A6DPRBW38UST4LYFM/Simone+Maurice+Headshot+by+Paul+McGeiver+-+Simone+Maurice.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Simone Maurice / ON Simone Maurice / ON From Emmy Award-winning to Academy Award-nominated directors, Simone works within post production teams in key roles straddling the creative and technical. With a deep understanding of story, narrative arc, her documentary projects have exhibitioned internationally and locally in festivals such as Doc NYC and Dance on Camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293870532-T32G677V0CYF3AXH1ZYB/Michaelle_McGaraghan_HS%2B-%2BMichaelle%2BMcG.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Michaelle McGaraghan / SF Michaelle McGaraghan / SF Michaelle is an Emmy nominated film editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who has spent the past 12 years collaborating with influential filmmakers such as Marc Smolowitz, Pratibha Parmar and Jacqueline Olive. Her work has screened all over the world including, SXSW, PBS, MTV, and Disney+ and she is a Sundance Art of Editing fellow. Michaelle is drawn to stories that enrich our understanding of the present by deeply examining our past. As a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors Inclusion + Access Committee, she is committed to promoting equity for marginalized documentary editors and assistant editors in the industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293297043-CYY5862DTKL4V0JG683P/M.Meliani+-+M_Daya+Meliani.jpg Fellowship Alumni - M’Daya Meliani / LA M’Daya Meliani / LA M’Daya Meliani is an editor based in LA whose career spans over 18 years in television and documentary film. Emmy-nominated for her work on the award winning A&E docu-series Born This Way, her recent work includes Leena Yadav’s documentary series House of Secrets: the Burari Deaths (Netflix) and feature documentary Groomed (Discovery+). Her previous work includes the short documentary Red Lake, directed by Billy Luther, which premiered at the 2016 LA Film Fest and was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the 2016 IDA awards. M’Daya had the pleasure of being a contributing editor at the 2019 Sundance Documentary Lab. She is currently editing the documentary Fire Through Dry Grass, directed by Alexis Neophytides and Andres “Jay” Molina. When she is not chasing after her little one, she is plotting to subvert the system one cut at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293097113-YNM40AGQNK6WVV55W6KP/Headshot1+-+Ashley+Moradipour.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Ashley Moradipour / NY Ashley Moradipour / NY Ashley is a queer, Brooklyn-based documentary film editor from Nashville, Tennessee. After studying film at Chapman University and beginning her documentary career in Los Angeles, she moved to New York in 2017 where she landed her first assistant editing job on the feature documentary Hillbilly. Through assembling scenes and giving creative input, she fell in love with the process of editing documentaries and decided to pursue post-production. Since then, she has worked as an assistant editor on features including This is Paris (Tribeca 2020, YouTube Originals) and Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack (DocNYC 2019). This past year, she had her first feature editor role on the HBO documentary Endangered (Tribeca 2022). Ashley continues to hone her skills as an editor and storyteller. She looks forward to learning from and collaborating with other creatives on verite-style films, specifically those that address themes of queerness and gender. She is currently working with Gidalya Films on a feature documentary set to premiere in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293084939-VIKBYYSUI4CEBL2S2K1D/Cierra+Pacheco+-+Cierra+Pacheco.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Cierra Pacheco / NY Cierra Pacheco / NY Cierra is an Editor from New York City with ten years in the freelance world where she focused primarily on documentary programming and reality tv. Cierra was part of the Emmy winning team of NBC’s television show George to the Rescue. One of her most recent accomplishments is her credit as an Associate Editor for the 2021 short documentary titled Game Changer that was featured in the Tribeca Film Festival. In her spare time, Cierra enjoys workouts and attending comedy shows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664294714759-S2O6KLHW6KFLT2NBPH1X/Screen%2BShot%2B2022-08-19%2Bat%2B4.41.12%2BPM%2B-%2BPegah%2BPasalar.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Pegah Pasalar / NY Pegah Pasalar / NY Pegah Pasalar is an editor and filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn. She first encountered editing as an undergraduate student at the Art University of Tehran, where she was introduced to film studies and editing theory and fell in love with the old Moviola on the campus. She obtained her master's degree in film, earning a full merit scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she had ample opportunity for deeper study of historical documentary films and to build a solid understanding of narrative, both formally and ethically. Pegah is particularly interested in stories of human relationships, displacement, identity nuances, and history. She has a soft spot for personal stories that evoke genuine human connection. She currently works as a freelance editor/assistant editor. She is aiming to develop expertise in the art of documentary film editing by working alongside experienced editors and by working on challenging projects requiring a deeper formal creative strategy to carry on their vision. Grants and residencies she has earned include the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs grant, Kala Media Residency Award, Bemis, Yaddo, Banff, and Points North. She has shown her works in multiple national and international festivals and venues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293079961-1R8KW8I8FIXBM3PZC2P7/BREDONDO_Profile+-+Brian+Redondo.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Brian Redondo / NY Brian Redondo / NY Brian is a documentary storyteller based in Brooklyn, NY. He has edited documentaries of all sizes - feature-length, docuseries, shorts and digital. His work ranges from verite and character-driven pieces to issue-based, rapid-moving explainers. But no matter the style, Brian focuses on work that evokes a social-political consciousness, particularly stories around race, immigration, and restorative justice. His most recent credits include Robert Greenwald’s upcoming documentary Beyond Bars, the food and identity docuseries Take Out with Lisa Ling, and Vox’s Explained series. He has also edited a number of award-winning documentary shorts that have screened at film festivals around the country including Full Frame and DOC NYC. Brian is also the former Senior Video Editor at The New Yorker magazine. Outside of the edit room, Brian is an avid geek culture enthusiast and co-hosts the podcast Confidently Wrong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293097769-V01GL57VGTX161FT8VPQ/Jarrid+Reed+Face+-+Jarrid+Reagle.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Jarrid Reagle / AL, GA & NY Jarrid Reagle / AL, GA & NY Jarrid Reed, born and raised in LA, educated in DC, and New York tested, has always been an earnest and passionate storyteller. He found his love of documentary while struggling as a young artist after graduating from college over a decade ago. He is a working assistant editor for various television and feature projects, including PBS’s Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., Our Time Project’s covid documentary The First Wave, and is currently working on season 48 of A&E Network's The First 48. Physched for the future and the chance to grow, he is overwhelmingly excited about what he gets to do for a living. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293102386-TD5QKI0CLGIUI35EKZXM/JOYEREED_HEADSHOT_2022_HQ+-+Joy+Reed.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Joy E. Reed / NY Joy E. Reed / NY Joy E. Reed has always championed the outsider in the projects they choose. Their first big break in documentaries was as an assistant editor on Buck (Sundance Audience Award 2011) and they were immediately hooked. Joy’s feature editorial and directorial debut Little Miss Westie (Best Documentary, Outshine Miami 2019, Special Jury Award, BendFilm 2019), premiered on PBS America Reframed in 2020. A rural kid, Joy got their first job at 14, hauling cut trees for a disabled neighbor who made wreaths at Christmastime. That same year they earned $100– a fortune in the 80s!-- for writing computer code for a program that printed form letters. Joy has been alternating working with their back and their brain ever since; they have always lived beyond the binary. When not in the edit room, they can be found strumming their baritone ukulele, or on the unceded lands of the Munsee Lenape people, working in the fields of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project in exchange for vegetables. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293096727-F3H9KADO99VJUJK150QB/IMG_2774+-+Elika+Rezaee.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Elika Rezaee / LA Elika Rezaee / LA Elika Rezaee is an Iranian-American Editor and Director. She left home to pursue her dreams in Western Cinema and rather successfully ended up studying at The American Film Institute and graduated in 2015 and she was awarded an MFA in Editing with distinction. She is diligent and prolific. Bringing rich Iranian culture and heritage with her, she produces a diverse landscape of artistic flavors and colors to the industry. Some of her credits include the following: La Sandinista (Editor) won the Jury Prize for SXSW Chicken & Egg Award, São Paulo International Film Festival Winner - Audience Award & New Directors Competition, Washington DC Film Festival Winner - Justice Matters Award. Jews Step Forward (Editor) Best Human Rights, War & Peace Documentary Feature Award, Winner Award of Merit, Best Documentary Feature from Mexico International Film Festival. Chasing The Rain (Editor), a dramedy feature film streamed on Amazon. Conducting The Revolution and Lot 448 (Editor) are both collaborative works of Tribeca & Bvlgari. Fereshteh, one of her most recent works as both writer and director, is currently having its international Festival release. Balcony won the ISF National Film Grant in the narrative category for an outstanding short film script and will be in production next fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293114846-3NANDMRY4CFHDQVZ8LO6/Susannah_Smith_headshot2019+-+Susie+Smith.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Susannah Smith / SF Susannah Smith / SF Susannah Smith is a Queer filmmaker, artist, and curator based in San Francisco with a focus on place-based storytelling. She believes the stories we tell and the histories we remember can have a real impact on the laws and designs that shape our cities. Recent work includes associate editing Home Is A Hotel, assistant editing on The Untitled 19th* News Film, Nasima, and Homeroom, which premiered at Sundance and was recognized with the inaugural Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award. In addition to her editing work, she is directing We Belong (in post-production) and Untitled Thao Nguyen Doc (in-development), and creating interactive installations and film discussions with the SF Urban Film Fest. Her projects have been featured at SFFILM, Q-films Long Beach, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Exploratorium, UC Berkeley, Bernal Heights Outdoor Film Festival, The Advocate, and in the streets of San Francisco. She is a member of ADE, was a juror for the 2021 IDA Doc editing award, and was a 2018 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow. She also is obsessed with her dog, her sweetie, her nieces, and hoarding art supplies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293075289-JHRDJZ3D1RZD6W74UK4N/AS_Headshot_1+-+Ally+Southwood-Smith.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Ally Southwood-Smith / NY Ally Southwood-Smith / NY Ally Southwood-Smith is a documentary filmmaker, editor, and sound designer. They began their career working in live production, where they served many roles, including director, sound engineer, and camera operator. Ally worked as an assistant editor on the SXSW premiered film Bulletproof while pursuing their degree in Documentary Production from Brooklyn College. They joined Insignia Films as an assistant editor on the Sundance premiered film Ailey and remained with Insignia for the TIFF 2022 premiered film Free Money. Ally continues to work on upcoming documentary features as an assistant and associate editor. Their professional interests and goals are centered around queer and/or underrepresented stories, and are rooted in short or long-form nonfiction post-production with a focus on editing and sound design. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293083481-H6HV16D6V96XMKPBT3EO/C09715C2-4080-4758-B0D2-1E84C84E9C56+-+heroicthinkers.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Jon Stray / NY Jon Stray / NY I split my time growing up between NYC and DC. I currently reside in Harlem, NY. I officially entered into the film editing world later in life, but from a very young age I’ve always been a story teller. Both of my parents were heavily involved in Black theater so I was always surrounded by the arts. My passions as a writer, former artist & athlete led me into the film industry in quite an unconventional way. My family background & diverse experience in animation, web design & creative writing provided me with the foundation to become a unique film editor. I was an assistant editor for Civil (Netflix 2022). I am currently finishing up an HBO film as co-editor in my editorial debut. I also run a small business here in Harlem that provides boxing instruction for fitness, self defense & competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293091459-S8Y0NNJXA651UHOTFIPQ/Ha+Vo_headshot+-+Ha+Vo.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Ha Vo / NY Ha Vo / NY Ha Vo is a Brooklyn based freelance artist who’s multidisciplinary background led her through an unconventional path to documentary filmmaking. She has a BFA in dance and shortly after moving to New York, realized her skills in compositions of movement transferred quite seamlessly to the qualities needed for cutting film. She has worked on The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show (Tribeca Film Festival 2021) as an additional editor and most recently, Instant Life as an associate editor, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Ha has a love for traveling, art and learning new things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293113713-4ROERWQ8CWHY2D9DZLZG/unnamed+-+Mimi+Wilcox.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Mimi Wilcox / NY Mimi Wilcox / NY Mimi Wilcox is a documentary editor and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She began her career in Chicago working with renowned documentary production company Kartemquin Films, which instilled in her a deep passion for documentary ethics and storytelling. She most recently edited on the feature documentary The Last Strike about the air traffic controllers’ strike of 1981. She co-edited Kartemquin Films' feature documentary exploring women’s sexuality The Dilemma of Desire (SXSW 2020, Showtime), which was executive produced by Barbara Kopple. She also edited the feature documentary Head to Head (Heartland Film Festival 2020), which examines the connections between women’s hair loss and identity. Mimi’s first short documentary, Alpha Mare, was a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick. She was a resident of the 2019 Points North Institute Shortform Editing Residency with her second short film The Sebastopol Siege. She was born and raised in Northern California, and holds a BA in Economics and Russian from the University of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293088683-BGSW6X2ES2OYDBNEDMKI/gqz-headshot2019+-+Grace+Zahrah.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Grace Zahrah / LA Grace Zahrah / LA Grace Zahrah is an emerging documentary editor whose work focuses on stories about misunderstood subjects and characters. Most recently, she edited Retrograde, a verite film chronicling the end of the war in Afghanistan following the efforts of a young Afghan general, premiering at Telluride Film Festival 2022. Also, Sirens, a gothic coming-of-age documentary about the first female metal band in the Middle East which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2022 and was awarded Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Feature at Outfest. Previous films include Scab Vendor, about a celebrity tattoo artist, Stay, an intimate, character-driven portrayal of the Los Angeles foster care system, and Copwatch, about one activist group's endeavor to increase awareness of police brutality, nominated for Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1664293112310-881MMO31TFJ6SD3Y43Z9/Luz+Marina+Zamora_Pic+By+Andres+Torres_El+Universal_23072018_Caracas+Venezuela+-+Luz+Marina+Zamora.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Luz Marina Zamora / NY Luz Marina Zamora / NY Luz is a Venezuelan filmmaker based in New York. Since age six, when she received a Minolta from her father, Luz has been fascinated by the power of images. A skilled camera operator, she is also an editor because as she says, “when I’m on the field, I think like an editor and when I’m editing, I am searching for the shots as a camera person.” She received a BA in Audiovisual Communication and eventually became the youngest and only female Technical Director in her country. Luz moved to New York after being awarded a merit-based scholarship at The New School where she completed two master degrees in Documentary and Media. Her short Caracas Fenced (2012) received an Honorable Mention for cinematic quality at the Caracas Filminuto Festival. De Colores (2017) premiered at Doc NYC and it was in the official selections of film festivals in Los Angeles, Vail, and New Orleans. Luz was awarded a Davis Project for Peace in 2018, and she is also a mentor for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program. Luz has collaborated in the Award-winning documentary Decade of Fire (2018, PBS), The Boy from Medellin (2020, TIFF), and The Martha Mitchell Effect, Sundance Official Selection ’22. She loves Legos, View-Masters, and chocolate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801286689-TT2JF5HHGB56LOF279CO/Acharya_Anisha_LA.png Fellowship Alumni - Anisha Acharya / LA Anisha Acharya is a film editor based in Los Angeles. She completed her MFA in film editing at the American Film Institute Conservatory. Her feature credits include both narrative and documentary films such as A Thousand Junkies, Through the Banks of the Red Cedar and Purdah. Her AFI thesis film Day One has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. Her films have screened at Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Emerging Filmmaker Showcase and AFI Fest among others. Anisha believes in the power of storytelling and brings a strong narrative focus to her process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801275997-NU731IYFSMIJIW46INQO/Arias_Andr%C3%A8s_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Andrès Arias / NY Andrès Arias fell for editing the way one is struck by love, by surprise and passionately. He has worked in documentaries such as Sundance award-winning and Oscar-nominated Cartel Land (2015) as a field producer and assistant editor; Brimstone & Glory! (2016) as an additional editor, and has edited content for PBS, BRIC TV and The New York Times. His most recent work includes Co-editor for the Netflix Original The Great Hack, and Mathew Heineman’s Showtime series The Trade (Sundance 2020). Andrès holds a Master of Fine Arts in social documentary from the School of Visual Arts. His thesis film was screened at the Workers Unite New York Film Festival in 2013. Prior to film, Andrès was a journalist in Puerto Rico. He was born surrounded by volcanoes in the mountains of Quito, Ecuador. In his free time, Andrès likes to read about aesthetics, anthropology, poetry, languages, and culture. He also loves to play el Ronroco guitar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801310084-979QA1OUT20V5HZ8GNJN/Badia_Maria_Rosa_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Maria Badia / NY Maria Badia is a filmmaker and editor from Barcelona, based in New York since 2008. She strongly believes in the power of storytelling as a healing and awareness tool for change. She is an editor for several episodes of The American Theatre Wing’s Working in Theatre, an Emmy nominated documentary series that reveals theatre’s inner-workings. Among her short format content we find films for BBC, The Atlantic or Le Monde. More recently she has been at Goldcrest Films, as part of the editing team of a feature documentary about Mexico’s political and social impunity problems for National Geographic. She was a fellow at the Uniondocs Collaborative Studio, a documentary arts center which keeps inspiring her vision on new approaches on filmmaking and she is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801297393-H57IXF9N361FPG2HQYL4/Barrett_Elizabeth_LA.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Elizabeth Barrett / LA Elizabeth Marie Barrett is an editor based in Los Angeles. Barrett served as lead assistant editor on the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, which premiered at Sundance. A graduate in film and media studies from The University of Oklahoma, her credits include scripted shorts Snoopy in Space and Candis for President, as well as The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and several spinoffs within the cult-followed franchise. She cares deeply about promoting women’s voices in entertainment and the arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801298765-S3ZPQ239V9J06MK59UM8/Berbey_Gabrielle_NYC.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Gabrielle Berbey / NY Gabrielle is filmmaker and journalist, currently working on the edit team of an upcoming PBS biographical series on Muhammad Ali, directed by Ken Burns. Passionate about producing stories across mediums, Gabrielle is also a fellow with the Association of Independents in Radio where she is producing an audio piece exploring Philippine-American experiences of World War II. Gabrielle previously worked on the producing team behind PBS FRONTLINE’s award-winning podcast series, The FRONTLINE Dispatch. Her documentary work has been featured in U.S and international film festivals. Gabrielle graduated with a B.A. in Film/TV and Human Rights from Bard College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801302389-W9ULU81F71NH71CF2JM5/Ching_Stephanie_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Steph Ching / NY Steph Ching directed and produced After Spring, a feature documentary focused on the Syrian refugee crisis, which was executive produced by Jon Stewart and premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. It is a recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant and a Frontline Award for Documentary Journalism. She is also one of DOC NYC’s inaugural “40 Under 40” list. She has worked as an assistant editor on The Fourth Estate, Take Your Pills, and Cameraperson. She served as Post-Production Supervisor and Associate Editor on The Brink and is currently finishing a documentary about a Hong Kong singer/activist. She participated as a contributing editor at the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab. Steph grew up in Massachusetts and is the proud daughter of Hong Kong immigrants. She holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801303226-4XIKG0PRBHTGMK18J7RY/Friedman_Sydney_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Sydney Friedman / NY Sydney is a non-binary Brooklyn-based documentary and narrative film editor from Detroit, Michigan. Their work is focused on social justice, environmental justice, womxn in film, and comedy. They’ve spent nearly a decade in pursuing and developing their craft and passion for filmmaking and storytelling. They find inspiration from womxn and trans people in the film industry and they strive towards their acknowledgment. Through their work they hope to empower other non-binary people to reach their full potential. They are also very passionate about advocating for the visibility of the LGBTQ community in New York City through political advocacy and sports organization. They are involved in urban farming and enjoy both playing and coaching Ultimate at a competitive level, rock climbing, hiking, and other outdoor activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801308213-RSZ2Q4WJWK6JFPMBUP55/Herrera-Pazmino_Alma_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Alma Herrera-Pazmiño / NY Alma is an Assistant Editor and emerging Editor based out of New York City. She began her career in New York as a night shift assistant editor logging archival and transitioned to first Assistant Editor for Barbara Kopple’s documentary Desert One, which premiered at TIFF 2019. Other credits as Assistant Editor include PBS NewsHour, Telling Pictures, FRONTLINE Media and an independent film on holocaust survivors by director Aviva Slesin. Alma’s pedagogy is rooted in her upbringing in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA, where she worked as a housing rights community organizer and as a youth arts administrator, developing the grit required to document compelling stories. Currently, Alma is working on a feature length documentary by Nina Alvarez about the termination of Temporary Protective Status and the effects on a Salvadorian family of TPS holders living in Washington DC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1601235256667-RT0MTYMG9DF9BPCGP850/Christina+Sun+Kim+2020+photo+credit+So+Yun+Um.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Christina Sun Kim / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow Christina Sun Kim is a Los Angeles-based editor who grew up in South Korea and the Midwest of the United States. As a storyteller, she has focused on bringing humanity to misunderstood populations in hidden sectors of our society and around the world, and has screened her work at places like SXSW, CAAMFest, the Jeonju International Film Festival, the Documentary Channel, and PBS. Christina discovered her love of editing while studying documentary filmmaking at the University of Texas at Austin. Soon after graduation, she cut her first full-length documentary, Tattooed Under Fire (dir. Nancy Schiesari), an ITVS-funded film about Iraq veterans and their emotional scars. In 2014, she earned her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and was also named a Film Independent Project Involve fellow. She then spent time producing and editing short social justice documentaries, collaborating with Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmakers and a network of community organizers throughout California. Her short film, The Migration Continues, chronicled a group of DREAMers fighting to defend DACA and was a finalist for the 2018 Shorty Awards. Christina was happy to find her way back to editing long-form documentaries with her most recent work, Land of My Father (dir. Matthew Koshmrl). She is currently working on So Yun Um's feature documentary, Liquor Store Dreams, the director's personal journey of racial reconciliation in the face of a fading generation of Korean-owned liquor stores in Los Angeles. Photo credit: So Yun Um https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801310030-LZXFO10KZ6WWOWNAV3RR/Kahrar_Samantha_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Samantha Kahrar / NY Sam Kahrar is a video editor and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her professional editing experience ranges from comedic web series to feature length films, as well as broadcast television. Her recent editing projects include videos for Vogue Italia, Prada and The Atlantic. Her most recent film, Salt Mom, blends documentary and narrative filmmaking practices, casting a teen friend group to enact a series of cliched teen movie tropes. The film premiered at San Diego Underground Film Festival in August 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801312076-FYXOQX2LWQ9Z2WF8YMSO/Kustra_Francesca_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Francesca Kustra / NY Francesca Kustra is an emerging editor based in Brooklyn with over a decade of experience in post production. After moving from Buffalo, NY to NYC in 2011, Francesca attended The New School, where she earned an MA in Media Studies. Her lifelong passion for documentary films and intentional storytelling has taken her around the globe. Her work has premiered in festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, TIFF, and has screened in theaters internationally. Bringing her unique voice to every project, Francesca has had the pleasure of contributing to several award winning films as an Assistant Editor. She was an Additional Editor on Eugene Jarecki’s The King and currently works as Post Production Supervisor and Associate Editor on Sean Lennon’s feature directorial debut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801313480-C73UR2BKOG7YFAXLSGKT/Mangubat_Reena_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Reena Mangubat / NY Reena Mangubat is a junior editor based in New York City. She is originally from Agat, Guam, and moved to the mainland U.S. in 2011 for a film & television degree at Boston University. Her work includes the duPont-Columbia award-winning documentary film series Reconstruction: America After the Civil War and the IDA-nominated Christiane Amanpour: Sex and Love Around the World. She was most recently junior editor on a documentary film series about the Black Church, produced by McGee Media and Inkwell Films for PBS. She hopes to continue working on documentaries that explore the histories and impacts of different cultures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801315692-BYWZHJ44G279TXMQWIA2/Mendoza_Rommel_LA.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Rommel Mendoza / LA Rommel Mendoza was born and raised in the SF Bay Area by immigrant parents who worked tirelessly to achieve the “American Dream.” Armed with their work ethic and determination (but not their pragmatism), Rommel moved to LA driven by his own dream to become a screenwriter. Much to the chagrin of his parents who insisted he pursue a more practical career, like nursing, Rommel studied film at UCLA and began working as an assistant editor shortly afterwards. He fell in love with documentary editing upon realizing how much creative writing goes into the editorial process. Today, the love affair continues as he strives to find and tell meaningful stories in the most compelling way possible. Some of the projects Rommel has worked on include PBS documentary series Food Forward and feature films Waiting For Lightning, Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, and The Donut King. And his parents are proud (kind of). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801328412-9N5RPQWAQW2P1UQVQS46/Prasad_Sunita_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Sunita Prasad / NY Sunita Prasad is a film editor and video artist. Her work as a video artist has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Centre Clark in Montreal, and Flux Factory in New York City. Her film editing work has screened theatrically and in major festivals internationally, including LA Film Fest, DOC NYC, and Hot Docs, as well as PBS, Arte, Vice, and Logo. Sunita’s past editing credits include the critically acclaimed feature documentary 93Queen (co-edited with Rebecca Laks), Korea: The Never-Ending War, and Emmy-nominated and Telly Gold award-winning Going to War. Most recently, she edited the feature documentary Women in Blue, to be released later this year, and is making her first foray into playwriting with a piece entitled BALD, supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801319510-NE211TOES1L4C159XHTC/Rheem_Jean_LA.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Jean Rheem / LA Jean Rheem is a documentary film editor, originally from South Korea and raised in Kansas and North Carolina. Jean fell in love with telling true stories when she made her first documentary about 5 teens with autism (The Social Group, Best Student Doc at Duke University, Audience Award at CFF). After moving to LA, Jean co-produced and edited Save My Seoul (2017), a documentary feature about teenage prostitution in South Korea, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. She is currently editing a Concordia Studio-funded documentary feature, which follows high school seniors attending a controversial school in the rural South. Jean believes that documentary filmmaking is an art form that can both affirm us in our individuality and connect us to others. She hopes to continue telling honest and complex stories that create space for us to reflect on our lived experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801324262-G1YZ5W41W0P3QG4HU1M8/Rouf_Ruella_NYC.png Fellowship Alumni - Ruella Rouf / NY Ruella Rouf is a documentary editor and assistant editor based in New York City. She is currently working with Gidalya Pictures on The Year of Outliving (working title), directed by Alexandra Shiva and MTV Studios' Untitled Suicide Prevention Program, Executive Produced by Sheila Nevins. Other feature documentary credits include Additional Editor for 30 for 30: Vick (2020), directed by MacArthur Fellow Stanley Nelson; Assistant Editor for Bei Bei (2018), which premiered at DOC NYC. Prior to working in documentaries, she was a laboratory scientist for several years. Craving to tell non-fiction stories, she abruptly changed career paths and got her start at both PBS and CBS affiliates in St. Louis, Mo. Her work as a digital journalist covering the police shooting of unarmed African American teen Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo. was cited by CNN and The Huffington Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801330358-NU2YW1GGRO37JM7R1M1N/Sosnowski_Jota_NYC.png Fellowship Alumni - Jota Sosnowski / NY Jota Sosnowski (they/them) is an editor and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. They are especially moved to tell stories of social justice and minority representation. Jota’s credits include Who Killed Malcolm X? a six-part Netflix series, Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (associate editor) an NBC feature, and Kids Behind Bars: A Soledad O’Brien Special Report, an hour long doc for Al Jazeera America (additional editor). They also assisted on Stanley Nelson’s Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities which premiered at Sundance and Alex Gibney’s The New Yorker Presents series for Amazon Prime. In addition to editing, Jota is currently directing a short hybrid doc that reframes adoption as a form of family separation through the voices of a birth mother and a queer adoptee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801329766-9MLXDMOXJDTFVEFB3Z2S/Ulloa_Dominique_LA.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Dominique Ulloa / LA Dominique Ulloa is a native of the Crenshaw District of South Los Angeles, and is a proud single-mother of two. She started her career as employee number two in Post-Production Operations of the Oprah Winfrey Network, and has since gone on to become an editor for television, digital, and feature-film documentaries. She was honored to be one of the editors on Surviving R. Kelly, (Bunim-Murray/Lifetime), their highest-rated docu-series in the past 8 years. Dominique was chosen to be a Documentary Editing Fellow for Concordia Studios, under the tutelage of Davis Guggenheim (Director, An Inconvenient Truth), and was a contributing editor for the upcoming feature-film documentaries by Bing Liu and Josh Altman (Minding the Gap) and Pedro Kos (The Great Hack). She deeply believes in under-represented groups controlling their own narrative, and considers it her responsibility to spread awareness through mass-media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801342243-L1NIKV7HIMR66AAYIHLU/Velazquez_Andreina_NYC.png Fellowship Alumni - Andreina Velazquez / NY I’m Andreina Velazquez and I’m working to become an editor who brings stories to life clearly and concisely, in both long and short-form projects. I’m interested in projects that utilize music in interesting ways or projects that are innovative and different. Born and raised in Houston, I graduated from UT Austin and moved to NYC to pursue a creative life and career. After a classic string of “just moved to NYC” hustles, my infinite curiosity, deep sense of wonder and love for music and photography led me to a career in editing. I have been the Lead Assistant Editor for documentaries for History Channel, Oxygen, and Investigation Discovery. I currently work as Junior/Assistant Editor at an agency where I have cut spots for Chick-fil-A, Mastercard, Fujifilm and Lysol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801342658-4VTXJKSCO6TF1LKGD0TS/Volkmann_Sally_NYC.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Sally Volkmann / NY Sally Volkmann is a documentary filmmaker, editor, and artist from Michigan. Sally is drawn to intimate, character driven narratives; non-linear storytelling and the rich texture of archival. Her work reflects her interests in climate change, social justice, and gender equality. During her five years in Los Angeles, Sally was an assistant editor on The Hunting Ground (2015); assistant/additional editor on Icarus (2017); a Contributing Editor at the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab with Warrior Women (2018); and jury member for the IDA Awards. Since moving to New York in 2018, Sally edited Morgan Stanley’s series in collaboration with Makers (2020) and assisted on a feature documentary for the Sean Parker Foundation. In 2019, she was elected to the steering committee of the Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE). Sally focuses on creating opportunities for information exchange, mentorship, and collaboration between members and the documentary community as a whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1583801337729-SJNURT0JMY5N4GOB1ZA5/Wu_Dora_LA.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Dora Wu / LA Dora “Siyi” Wu is a documentary editor from China who has been based in Los Angeles since 2016. Before finding her passion for editing, she devoted her career to China Central Television Financial Channel (CCTV2), directing and editing creative and promotional content for broadcast and digital. She also studied and worked internationally in the United Kingdom, Europe, Cambodia, Panama and now the US. After moving to Los Angeles, she got her MFA degree in documentary filmmaking at Chapman University. She edited the docu-series Global Perspectives on China for the 40th anniversary of Chinese Economic Reform. She is currently editing the feature documentary Invisible about Fibromyalgia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473905877-JZ4EACH2ZO01BEPRIQ1X/Aizawa_Yuki.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Yuki Aizawa / LA Yuki Aizawa is an editor and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She is originally from Central New York and spent part of her childhood in Japan. Her credits include Bending the Arc (co-edited with Pedro Kos), which premiered at Sundance, Everything Must Change, and Anthony Bourdain’s “Explore Parts Unknown: Little Los Angeles,” which won an Emmy for outstanding short form nonfiction. Prior to moving to LA, Yuki traveled the country as a field recorder for the Peabody Award-winning oral history project, “StoryCorps.” She was recently a Contributing Editor for the Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Labs, and is currently co-directing a documentary on gun culture. She holds an MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473906519-U0EYAJT8355L34XJ0I3D/Ancona_Natalie.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Natalie Ancona / LA Natalie Ancona is a Los Angeles based editor and assistant editor. She started out working in research and development for Davis Guggenheim, where she gained a strong foundation and love for story. She was assistant editor on several Netflix docu-series, The Mars Generation (Sundance 2017), and additional editor on Havana Libre and Grammy Award-winning QUINCY (Tribeca 2018). She is currently working on feature documentary Resynator, on which she is the lead editor. Natalie grew up in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Comparative Politics and a background in community organizing around sexual violence. She hopes to work on films that highlight social and economic issues through intimate stories. Natalie seeks to use documentary as a form of activism and to create films that shift cultural norms and expand viewers’ minds, as they have done for her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473908613-MYWEEXO0719RJTS1XDR9/Andreou_Stephanie.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Stephanie Andreou / NY Stephanie Andreou is a British-Cypriot editor based in Brooklyn. Over the past seven years she’s worked on films that have screened at Sundance, MoMA Doc Fortnight, BAMcinemaFest and on PBS. After receiving an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2012 she went on to work with ART21 on their extensive layout of broadcast and online shows. In 2017 she was a UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow and continued on to IFP's ‘Made in NY Media’ Center Fellowship where she began developing a film about NYC’s Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center - the world's largest floating prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473911943-JEV3DBU24QZ2GUKX6RUO/Aristizabal_David.jpg Fellowship Alumni - David Aristizabal / LA David Aristizabal was born in Bogota, Colombia. He earned an MFA in Film Production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. His thesis documentary film, A Second Chance, won a Student Academy Award. David is a Film Independent Project Involve fellow. He helped edit the feature documentary Inventing Tomorrow, which premiered at Sundance. He edited Emergency, a short film that won the Audience Award at Sundance in 2018. David is currently assisting on several feature documentaries produced by Passion Pictures for Showtime. He is especially interested in nature, social issues, history, and biographies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556816888538-YS352GWV3LUC1M5R98PG/BeyzaBoyacioglu_Headshot_2019_V2.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Beyza Boyacioglu / NY Beyza Boyacioglu is a filmmaker and editor from Istanbul, currently based in Brooklyn. Her editing credits include In Search of Bengali Harlem by Vivek Bald (Feature Film Editor, supported by Ford Foundation and PBS), Bright Sparks web series by BBC (Editor & Supervising Editor), Me Time by Iyabo Boyd (Trailer Editor), An Act of Worship by Nausheen Dadabhoy (Sample Editor) and Bounty by Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip (Short Doc, Editor). She was an additional editor on Debra Granik’s upcoming documentary and Cory Choy’s horror-drama Esme, My Love as a part of The Edit Center. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA, IDFA, RIDM, Morelia International Film Festival and many other festivals and venues. She received fellowships from Chicken & Egg, Flaherty Seminar, Greenhouse, and is a Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective member. She directed the interactive documentary Zeki Müren Hotline at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the short film Toñita’s at UnionDocs. She holds an MSc in Comparative Media Studies from MIT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1551793548203-JU6ADQE11JDM8CL7SC00/2019+KSFEF+Victoria+Chalk+by+Hal+Horowitz.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Victoria Chalk / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow Victoria Chalk is a British-Chinese film editor with over 10 years of post-production experience. She most recently edited PJ Raval’s feature documentary Call Her Ganda, which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. She has editing credits on a wide array of critically acclaimed projects: Ovarian Psycos, a feature documentary directed by Joanna Sokolowski and Kate Trumbull-Lavalle (SXSW 2016, Hotdocs); Vivre, jusqu’au bout…, a narrative short directed by Vincent Plaidy (award winner at the 2010 Rhode Island International FF and the prestigious CNC Prix de Qualité); and additional editing on Before You Know It, directed by PJ Raval (SXSW, 2013). She is currently wrapping Yu Gu’s feature documentary A Woman’s Work. Victoria attended the 2013 and 2015 Sundance Edit and Story Lab as a Contributing Editor. The films she's edited have been supported by The Guggenheim Foundation, Fork Films, Sundance Film Institute, Bertha Foundation, Arcus Foundation, Austin Film Society, Firelight Media, Center of Asian American Media, the Ford Foundation Just Films, ITVS, and California Humanities. In her spare time, Victoria trains and fights as a boxer, and is a core member of A-DOC, the Asian American Documentary Network. Photo Credit: Hal Horowitz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473911221-LZ2ITTVQWD8JVCEXSMEI/Cannon_Jasmine.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Jasmine Cannon / NY Jasmine Cannon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, editor and photographer. She began diving into documentary filmmaking in 2015 when she completed her first documentary, Through Our Eyes. Jasmine went on to obtain her MS from the Medill School at Northwestern University where she studied documentary storytelling while focusing on social justice and sports content. Jasmine served as co-director, co-producer and lead editor on the award-winning short doc, FEARLESS. Jasmine has a history of editing for news, film, and digital marketing. Jasmine currently serves as editor on a multimedia project focused on slavery in North America. An Alabama native, Jasmine currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where she’s grateful for the opportunity to make film magic everyday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473911447-VZ5NL251UAEIQ6GEED3N/Covington_Jaki.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Jaki Covington / LA Jaki Covington has been a professional filmmaker for over 13 years moving from documentaries to features and back again. She recently edited Heather Rae’s Concordia produced short documentary Paulette, and was on the editorial team of the feature documentary Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2018 Jaki was one of four contributing editors selected for the Sundance Documentary Edit lab. For three years, she was the lead video editor at Bodybuilding.com, one of the largest online fitness sites in the world. Jaki was in charge of the creative vision; helping script, produce, and direct content designed to inspire and motivate. Jaki’s passion is for projects that matter. She recently collaborated with Wyclef Jean, and Taboo from The Black Eyed Peas on their philanthropic projects as well as directed and edited content for the successful media campaign @ihadamiscarriage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473911848-4M2JG6ZRXV19096UHEA8/Cox_+Janah_Elise.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Janah Cox / NY Janah Cox, born and raised in the Bronx, NY, is a freelance documentary film editor whose films have premiered at Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and New York film festivals, among others. She was an associate editor on Watergate - Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President, a six-part limited series for the History channel and has assisted on award-winning films including The King, Mr.Soul!, 93Queen and Get Me Roger Stone! She holds a BA in Globalization Studies from the University at Albany and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Janah is a teacher at the Edit Center and is currently editing a documentary titled RETRATS, which will premiere on the Spanish television station, IB3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473912032-IOQGTVCOORTHBLGZQ86R/Diaz_Sebastian.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Sebastian Diaz / NY Sebastian Diaz is a filmmaker and editor whose work has screened at MoMA, Tribeca, Creative Time (NYC), Raindance (London), and ARCO (Madrid), among others. Selected award-winning films include Toñita’s (director/editor), Yanvalou (editor), Brilliant Soil (director/editor) and Tijuaneados Anonymous (editor/DP). He was an editor for the Emmy-winning web series The And, and recently produced and edited for the Guggenheim Museum and Webby award nominated BBC Travel. He directed, shot and edited multiple episodes of the documentary series Bulbo that he co-created (broadcast in US and Mexico on Univision) about Tijuana-San Diego border culture where he was raised. Sebastian lives and works in NYC where he is the founder and curator of Proyector, a traveling series of nonfiction and hybrid Mexican cinema, and a board member of UnionDocs center for documentary art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473912481-VYSN5VURUROIM8W87MEO/Elsafty_Mohamed.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Mohamed Elsafty / NY Mohamed Elsafty is a Brooklyn-based editor and assistant editor. Born in Cairo, Egypt and raised in North Jersey, he has long been interested in issues of minority representation and immigrant advocacy. After studying poetry and film at Pennsylvania State University, he moved to Brooklyn in 2012 where he's worked on commercial, narrative, and documentary projects. He was post-production supervisor on For Ahkeem (Berlin International Film Festival 2017), assistant editor on Transmilitary (SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2018), and editor on documentary shorts for a number of non-profits like IMEU, Taghyeer, and Beit of Hope. He is currently working on two Original Netflix documentary series - one on genetic engineering and the other on immigration - as well as a feature documentary on Palestinian activism. When not engaged in film work, he creates video collage backdrops for live musical performances. He has one cat (Stinky) and three plants (TBD). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473912434-JGTY5CHWVPG0WIPFXP9O/Franics_Sediqua.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Sediqua Francis / NY Sediqua Francis is an assistant editor born and raised in NYC. She has previously assisted on shows for networks such as A&E, CNN, Showtime, HBO, and OWN. As an editor, she has particular interest in documentaries having to do with injustice and social change. In her free time, she likes weight training, baking, watching TV or using some type of electronic gadget. Sediqua holds a BA in Media Production with a concentration in Film from Emerson College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473915637-RE1JC7YSBCMAWMIHCHAW/Khoury_Loulwa.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Loulwa Khoury / NY Loulwa Khoury is a New York based video editor who was born and raised in Beirut. She most recently edited her first feature documentary Paradise Without People. Her other work includes award winning documentary City of Ghosts, as well as It Will Be Chaos, White Sauce Hot Sauce, The Joneses and Look at Us Now Mother. Fluent in Arabic, French and English she has worked on a variety of projects, but has recently been focused on documentaries. Due to her musical background, she is passionate in music which led her to start a music blog Earblend in 2010, in which she interviews and films bands and concerts. She also occasionally films short videos for Workers Unite Film Festival and other similar clients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473920464-9CNT9HXOMNI2ER4H74T6/Khoury_Stephanie.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Stephanie Khoury / NY Stephanie is a NY-based documentary editor and producer. She began her career as a storyteller by documenting life through her drawings. Inspired by the courageous vulnerability of the people who let her into their lives, she now spends her time collecting and collaging moments into films. Stephanie recently edited Death Metal Grandma, which premiered at SXSW and was selected as a New York Times OpDoc. She was an Associate Producer on Kitty and Ellen, which screened at DocNYC. With Talking Eyes Media, Stephanie has edited and produced several documentaries and documentary interactives that move beyond the traditional narrative mold. She’s also a core contributor to the online magazine Newest Americans, where she edits and produces short stories that explore the immigrant-rich community in Newark, NJ. Stephanie graduated with a BA in Documentary Studies and Production and minors in Art and Environmental Studies from Ithaca College. She hopes to continue to create meaningful media that inspires empathy and understanding. WEBSITE / CONTACT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473917144-YZ82Z951Y24AY27QUSHA/Mahmoudabadi_Mahdokht.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Mahdokht Mahmoudabadi / NY Mahdokht Mahmoudabadi is an Iranian editor and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work as an editor includes documentary, narrative, and TV/web series. She is currently working on a documentary series for HBO. She worked on Barbara Kopple’s latest film as a dialogue editor also she edited with director Caveh Zahedi on The Show About The Show (Sundance 2018). She holds a MA in Media Studies and Documentary Studies from the New School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473917990-RKITWHVCD11Z1E76SMER/McNabb_Chris.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Chris McNabb / NY Chris McNabb (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based editor focused primarily on documentary film. Their past nonfiction work includes the Emmy Award-winning interactive documentary {THE AND} (IDFA, 2014) and the accompanying short film {THE AND} Marcela & Rock (Sundance, 2015). In 2016, McNabb was selected as a Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Lab Fellow. McNabb’s feature editorial debut, Whose Streets?, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. The film was distributed by Magnolia Pictures and nominated for Gotham and Critics’ Choice Awards. McNabb’s fiction work includes the short horror film The Rat (Sundance, 2019) and the short 16mm film The Inconceivable Mountain. McNabb recently co-edited the feature documentary Narrowsburg (currently in post-production) and is now developing a short archival film about representation of trans femmes in popular media. McNabb graduated Wesleyan University Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Film Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473934594-CRF65U9RIY0Q228F5P9C/Porter_Hypatia.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Hypatia Porter / NY Hypatia Porter is a documentary editor from rural Northern California, who has been based in New York City since 2014. She fell in love with documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and hasn’t looked back since. She is drawn to stories with emotional resonance and personal connection, that are grounded in a sense of purpose. Her feature work includes Tigerland (Sundance 2019) and Age of Consequences (2018 News and Television Emmy nominee). Her series and short form work has screened on a range of networks including HBO, Netflix, Starz, iTunes, Discovery and The Travel Channel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473921820-CG9613BI7WJWMZENYODX/Powell_Christelle.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Christelle Powell / NY Christelle Powell is an editor who grew up in the Caribbean. Her experience working at a production company piqued her interest in editing. After moving to New York, she did a few editing internships and reached out to some documentary filmmakers to help out on their projects. Landing an internship at AMC which was required to complete her BA degree, she later got offered a position as an assistant editor, where she sharpened her skills over the years and eventually made the transition to editor. Christelle has also assisted on several documentaries, including John Leguizamo’s Road to Broadway (2018) and The Garden Left Behind (Official Selection SXSW 2019). Christelle enjoys watching documentaries about various topics, including social issues in her spare time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473928728-5RCS952HX896HBO2A14E/Quallis_Charnelle.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Charnelle Quallis / NY Charnelle “Cha” Quallis is a documentary film editor. She began her career at NBC Sports & Olympics - editing creative and promotional content for broadcast and digital platforms. After six years, she decided to follow her passion for documentary storytelling. Cha has since worked on a handful of PBS “Frontline” documentaries, including two duPont–Columbia University award winners: The Gang Crackdown and Bitter Rivals. Most recently, she co-edited Boss: The Black Experience in Business, which won the Programmer’s Award at the Pan African Film Festival. Cha is currently working on a documentary under the direction of MacArthur Fellow, Stanley Nelson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473930142-W1E22S1O56UJH7MA6127/Roda_Carla.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Carla Roda / LA Carla Roda is an editor from Barcelona, Spain who has been based in Los Angeles since 2014. She studied film and media studies at the University Ramon Lull. Before finding her passion for editing, she devoted her career becoming a producer and director not only in Spain, but also internationally - working in France, Canada, Australia and now the US. She recently edited the feature documentary We Stand Corrected an alternative narrative to Ben Stiller’s Showtime limited series, Escape at Dannemora. Carla also worked as an additional editor in the docuseries Phenoms by Fox Digital Studios premiered in Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. She is currently editing the feature documentary Mi Vida Daca about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, and the importance of immigration reform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1559711371892-INARYOEXLWGZAHXX7AGI/SYED_SALMAN.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Salman Syed / LA Salman Syed was born and raised in Southern California. He has an MFA in Editing from the American Film Institute and a BA in Film Production from CSUN. His recent work includes Netflix’s Diagnosis, Flint Town, and Purdah, now streaming on Amazon Prime. Salman is a proud Pakistani Muslim American and uses his unique background and experiences to bring a diverse perspective to his work. In his free time he enjoys watching sports, traveling and spending time with family and friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473939169-H9AKCEL2BMG0776YZ1I3/Torres_Maria_Gabriela.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Maria Gabriela Torres / NY Maria Gabriela Torres is an apprentice editor and assistant editor at Kunhardt Films. She was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, and graduated from journalism school in Colombia, where she worked as a live TV content producer at an international news channel. Maria Gabriela moved to New York City in 2016 to attend The New School's Documentary Studies Program. After she graduated, she worked at American Documentary's “America ReFramed,” The Elevator Studios and Naked Eye Productions. She has assisted on John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (HBO, 2018), True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality (HBO, 2019) and will be assisting on Kunhardt Film's next project for HBO. Maria Gabriela believes that it is through telling real stories that she can motivate people to connect with each other on a humane level and effect change in this world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473951012-I5K9GUE93IUYTJM7YSD2/Vogelfang_Ines.png Fellowship Alumni - Inés Vogelfang / NY Inés Vogelfang is an editor from Argentina currently based in New York City. She studied film at The University of Buenos Aires, and earned her Masters in Media Studies and Documentary Film at The New School. The most recent shorts she directed and edited were screened at Doc NYC, Corto Circuito, and Offside Film Fest in Europe. A fiction short Inés edited, Leo’s Shoulder by Carlos Ledesma, was screened at BAFICI. She is an alumna of the Imagine Science Film Festival, The Edit Center, and with You Play Here, her interactive documentary about immigration and the public space, she was part of DCTV’s Documentary WIP Lab with Yance Ford. She is currently editing a feature documentary (Untitled Barry Gibbs Documentary), directed by Zoe Potkin, and executive produced by Katie Couric, Tony Goldwyn, and Sanaa Hamri. Inés speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English, enabling her to edit projects all over the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1556473946464-4OE0LIUVILKN5392SCVP/Yao_Annie.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Anne Yao / NY Anne Yao is a junior film editor that started out her career as a technical manager at the post production facility Radical Avid. She was the first assistant editor on Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next (2015) and Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018). She has worked on CNN's The End: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House (2017) and HBO's The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019). She participated in the Abbas Kiarostami Master Class at Hunter College where she graduated in 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137790322-TL2I4DROF4ZF6QU6W81E/AVELALLEMANT_ClaireAveLallemant_Headshot.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Claire Ave'Lallemant / NY Claire Ave'Lallemant, as an Ohio-born North Carolina-raised child, always knew she wanted to be a film editor, but little did she realize her passion would lead her into the expansive world of documentary. Now a NY-based editor, Claire has assisted on several pieces for National Geographic and Discovery Channel as well as acclaimed features such as Memories of a Penitent Heart (Tribeca, 2016) and Chef Flynn (Sundance, 2018). She is currently working on documentary projects for Netflix and Paramount. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137794684-TQXH0RB6E294V099YVY9/AZAM_Faisal+Azam_headshot.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Faisal Azam / NY Faisal Azam is an award-winning film editor, writer and producer. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Faisal grew up in the Middle East, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 15, where he graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley with a degree in Rhetoric. For more than a decade, Faisal has edited commercials, television documentaries and independent films, including Black Dog, Red Dog, produced by James Franco; Without Shepherds, which won the Grand Prize for Best Film at the Brooklyn Film Festival; and Salar, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Faisal currently serves as an Emmy Awards judge and has co-written a TV pilot that is a finalist in The 2018 Atlanta Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137792966-3QHC3EN5C1N4OHZEU6JH/BIKANGAGA_Samali+Bikangaga+headshot.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Samali Bikangaga / NY Samali Bikangaga is an assistant editor at Florentine Films where she is currently working on an upcoming historical biography on Muhammad Ali. She earned a BA in Media Studies with a concentration in Journalism from Hunter College. The daughter of Ugandan immigrants, Samali was born and raised in San Francisco. Her multicultural upbringing helped shape a social justice perspective that she has carried in her film work, as a journalist in the South Bronx, and as an intern at Voice of America. She is currently collaborating with family members in Uganda on a public health non-profit that provides youth programs in rural Uganda. Samali resides in Brooklyn, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137800521-QXI8WDWGLAW11U273HU6/BONSHAHI_Mitra+Bonshahi+IMG_4440.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Mitra Bonshahi / NY Mitra Bonshahi is an editor and producer living in Brooklyn, NY. She edited the feature-length documentary Bronx Obama (Showtime, 2014), which screened at several festivals including HotDocs, and worked as an assistant editor on multiple films including The King (Cannes, 2017). In addition to to making films, Mitra edits everything from short docs, web series, and commercial projects. When she’s not working in the visual medium, she produces radio stories for “StoryCorps,” the NPR-affiliated Peabody Award-winning project dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday Americans. She holds a MA in Media Studies from The New School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1520386419996-OM84Y0IR1Z773Q3HSUAM/Kristin+Bye+Schmeer+Fellow+2018+by+Robin+Hessman.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Kristin Bye / NY & OR / Emerging Editor Fellow Kristin Bye is a film editor and graphic designer based in New York City and Portland, Oregon. Most recently, Kristin edited Obit, a feature documentary directed by Vanessa Gould about the obituary writers at the New York Times. Obit premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, screened at numerous festivals in the U.S. and internationally, and was released theatrically in 2017. NPR called the film “heartfelt and unshakable” and the New York Times chose Obit as a Critics Pick, describing it as “observant, graceful and nonchalantly witty.” Kristin was assistant editor on Ride, Rise, Roar (SXSW 2010) and Ivory Tower (Sundance 2014). She has edited short commercial and documentary projects for clients including Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Hillman Curtis, Knoll, Prescriptives, R/GA, Steinway & Sons, the United Nations, the World Health Organization and more. Prior to working in film, Kristin was co-founder and partner of a graphic design studio in Portland, Oregon for over 10 years. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she has a degree in International Studies from the University of Washington (Seattle) and studied language, art and design in France for three years. When not busy with creative projects, Kristin loves to explore the world by foot, by bike and through film. Photo Credit: Robin Hessman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137796381-EG8IFFRAZGZ5OHBWWTSS/CHANG_BryanChang_Headshot_2018_Square.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Bryan Chang / NY Bryan Chang is a documentary filmmaker whose award-winning films have been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, TIME Magazine, The Atlantic, MoMA, Sundance Film Festival, and distributed theatrically. His feature-length documentaries include Brasslands (director/DP/editor), Narco Cultura (editor), Dark Money (additional editor) and Island Soldier (producer/DP/editor). He was an editor for the Emmy-winning documentary series A Year in Space, and is currently editing on a Netflix original documentary series about genetic engineering. He is a co-owner of Meerkat Media, a cooperatively-run production company in Brooklyn, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137800741-V0MJM46TX829QGCPXZZ6/CHEUNG_Winnie+Cheung+Headshot.png Fellowship Alumni - Winnie Cheung / NY Winnie Cheung is a Hong Kong born, Queens raised, Brooklyn based filmmaker and editor. Her work centers around the theme of “stranger in a strange land.” She frequently collaborates with artists across various disciplines, using illustration, animation, and dance to place the corporeal body within surreal spaces. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Film and Video Grant. Her work as an editor has shown at San Francisco International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and Marfa Film Festival. She recently edited Mr. Wash, a short documentary about an artist who was given a life sentence and was freed by President Obama 21 years later. Mr. Wash will premiere at The California African American Museum in May 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137805331-GOYUKKNBDIFECHSAOP25/CHOE_HannahChoe_Headshot.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Hannah Choe / NY Hannah Choe is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker with eight years of experience in documentary film. She was recently an associate editor for Dark Money (Sundance, 2018) and an assistant editor for Gavin Grimm Vs. and Geographies of Kinship. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Cinema and a minor in Asian American Studies. Hannah strongly believes in the art of film as a powerful and transformative tool for promoting healing and compassion, building platforms for under-represented communities and inspiring social change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137816620-SPW604SLXX6IOBYL3DX1/CRUZ_Andrea+Cruz+DSC007400.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Andrea Cruz / NY & LA Andrea Cruz is a New York based documentary editor who grew up in Los Angeles with frequent visits to Mexico. Her passion lies in telling stories of those who are underrepresented. She recently edited the pilot episode for the series, Rearview Mirror, supported by Tribeca Film Institute, and in 2016 she assisted on the feature film, The Strange Ones. She has shot and edited over 100 short films about women for StyleLikeU’s What’s Underneath Project. Some of her clients include Puma, Adidas, Pepsi, Birchbox, Remezcla, Allure, The New Yorker and HuffPost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137808820-0CX98JB5R30P1JA9916H/DIROY_Diana+Diroy+headshot.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Diana Diroy / NY Diana Diroy is a documentary filmmaker, editor, photographer and youth educator. Her work reflects her interests in climate change, social justice and gender equality. She co-edited the documentary short Water Warriors, which screened at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and DocNYC. As co-founder of Her Girl Friday, a group dedicated to empowering women in journalism and other forms of non-fiction storytelling, she helps create opportunities for learning, networking, and collaboration. Diroy is also a board member of The Authority Collective, whose mission is to uplift visual artists of color through mentorship, funding, assignments and other opportunities. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Diroy resides in New York where she continuously strives to collaborate and make magic with other creatives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137817316-6P35TOFTW4V63W8F8N9K/GUPTA_SHILPI+GUPTA_headshot.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Shilpi Gupta / NY Shilpi Gupta has been editing news and short documentaries since 2001, when she discovered her proclivity for the craft while studying documentary filmmaking at UC Berkeley’s journalism school. Her first film, which she edited and directed, When the Storm Came, won the 2004 Sundance Grand Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking and was shortlisted for the 2005 Academy Awards. In the years following, Shilpi edited on several documentary shorts that screened worldwide. She also worked in network news, where she earned seven Emmy nominations and three wins. She is currently developing a new film called Changing the Game and editing for HBO’s VICE News Tonight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137815319-CF2WFZSIWTJTUU5OW63H/GOLLIDAY_StevenGolliday_Portrait_11.2014.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Steven J. Golliday / NY Steven J. Golliday’s path to the cutting room began as assistant editor on the award-winning PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Most recently, he edited the HBO documentary King in the Wilderness, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and co-edited the feature documentary Far From the Tree, which premiered as the centerpiece in the 2017 DOC NYC film festival. He studied art at CalArts in Los Angeles, where he was awarded the Gelman Travel Fellowship, which funded the production of his documentary project There Are No Shortcuts, filmed in and around Panama City, Panama. Golliday was born and raised in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137818981-BMBES9J0P1JNPHRSSNYK/HAIRSTON_princess+hairston.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Princess A. Hairston / NY Princess A. Hairston is an Emmy-nominated film editor based in New York. Her work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival and Reel Sisters of the Diaspora film festival. She was an editor on Fresh Dressed, directed by Sacha Jenkins, which premiered at Sundance in 2015. She edited the first two episodes of the Emmy-nominated series Capture w/Mark Seliger. Her work spans various platforms. She was lead editor on Masterpiece of Love, a five-part documentary series. Princess is currently editing Little Sallie Walker, directed by Marta Effinger-Crichlow. Princess is also an emerging director with her current documentary Tracing the Hairstons in post-production. Princess holds a B.A. degree in English & Mass Communications from Virginia State University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137855066-MVKW68YPXM0OXP3NHCWJ/KERR_Mary+Kerr+headshot.jpeg Fellowship Alumni - Mary Kerr / NY Mary Kerr is a seasoned film professional with over 20 years experience in programming, arts administration, and filmmaking. She recently transitioned into film editing full time and has worked as Assistant Editor on the forthcoming documentaries Dusty Groove: The Sound of Transition and Brooklyn Siege, as well as Love, Gilda, which opened the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. She has also produced several documentaries, including One Cut, One Life (NY Film Festival 2014) and Instructions on Parting (Doc Fortnight 2018). Previous to filmmaking, Mary served as Executive Director of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and programmed for the Sundance, Los Angeles, and Silverdocs film festivals. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137855145-1O5RQ9IN8EBWN0RC6EFE/KIRKWOOD_Ephraim+Kirkwood+IMG_2908.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Ephraim Kirkwood / NY Ephraim Kirkwood is a New York based editor whose work has appeared on CNN, Travel Channel, PBS, Discovery, and A&E. He edited the feature documentary GTFO: Get the F**k Out, which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. His additional editing credits include the Emmy award winning television show Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown and the Netflix Original Series Rapture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137855502-7HBB11QCF26TZBER0Z1O/KNECHEL_Ellen_Knechel_headshot_2017.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Ellen Knechel / NY Ellen Knechel is an independent filmmaker and editor. She is currently editing the feature documentary Border South, and producing a project on immigration detention centers. Previously Ellen assisted Lindsay Utz in cutting Quest (Cinema Eye Honors - Outstanding Editing). Ellen participated at the 2017 Camden/TFI Filmmaker Retreat, the 2017 DocsMX Docs Labs in Mexico City and she is a Flaherty alumni. She holds an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137863444-LWQR7HTDWCSTZZ7TT5YW/MCCLENDON_Blair+hs2015.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Blair Seab McClendon / NY Blair Seab McClendon is from San Diego, but currently lives in New York City. His work as an editor and filmmaker includes documentary, narrative and experimental work. He was a Contributing Editor for the 2017 Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Labs and won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for Editing with the film LAPS. He was an editor on Mr. Soul! (Tribeca 2018), an additional editor on United Skates (Tribeca 2018) and consulting editor on Whose Streets? (Sundance 2017). He is the director and editor of an ongoing project, America for Americans, which is a found footage essay film on black joy and besiegement in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137873530-NUXJLUZ4FNMTE5I2Q845/MENDENHALL_Grace+Headshots+FINAL-1.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Grace Mendenhall / NY Grace Mendenhall is a video editor and motion graphics designer with a special interest in social justice-oriented documentaries - particularly those focused on queer identity and sex worker rights. Her work has appeared on PBS, Refinery29, and The Marshall Project, among others, and has been featured in film festivals around the world. Most recently, she served as Associate Editor on RBG - a feature-length documentary on Justice Ginsburg that premiered at Sundance 2018. Grace attended the Salt Institute, the Duke Center for Documentary Studies, and the Bay Area Video Coalition, where she studied audio and visual storytelling, creative nonfiction writing, and animation. She is a graduate of William and Mary and is currently based in Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137869896-5Y9CEIBULVCFGNXA3WNK/METZGER_margaret+metzger_photo.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Margaret Metzger / NY Margaret Metzger, a native of Boston, studied ethical philosophy at Brown University and began working in documentary film in 2012. Her move to documentary followed several years of working as a researcher and literary agent in Athens, Greece. Margaret began her documentary career as an archival researcher, and her archival credits include the 2017 Oscar winner O.J.: Made in America, and the American Experience films 1964 and Edison. In 2015, she made the switch to editing. Her editing credits include profiles of producer/director Jill Soloway, gender equality activist Judaline Cassidy, and scientist Millie Dresselhaus, for the series Makers. She recently completed a documentary short, Monty, which is her directorial debut. She lives in Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137874361-5XDN7GUFX1V20XQTX4S0/MOYA_luna+x+moya+PREFERRED+SHOT+AND+WE+CAN+CROP+IMG_3429.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Luna X Moya / NY Luna is a documentary bilingual editor with theatrical runs at The Shed, commercial editor experience (L’Oreal,) and TV show experience as an AE (Jigsaw x Vice.) Luna has also directed work that played at SilverDocs and received a BFA from Tisch NYU Film & TV production where she studied under the mentorship of Sam Pollard. Her debut film The Rights of Butterflies was launched in 2012, with an impact organizing campaign to successfully pass the DREAM act in Maryland. The documentary short was featured in The Washington Post and premiered at the 2012 AFI SilverDocs Film Festival. Prior to her directorial debut she interned as a videographer and reporter for Telemundo. She was chosen for Natalia Almada’s for her artist residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2015. Other fellowships and artist residencies include the Meerkat In Residence at Meerkat Media Collective 2016, and the 2018-19 Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program. (Photo by Eli Sleepless) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137874901-P9NUQ9HYCI6R2LDYLT76/ORTIZGUILLEN_luis+ortiz+guillen+IMG_7144.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Luis Ortiz-Guillen / NY Luis Ortiz-Guillen grew up in Mexico City and moved to New York City weeks before the Blizzard of '95. After studying Mechanical Engineering he took film production courses in his native Mexico City. He decided to get ahead and learn NLE at NYU and this prompted his move to the United States. As of now, he works as an editor and has contributed on several TV documentary series for Starz, NatGeo, Discovery and Univision. He has worked as Associate Editor on several feature-length documentaries, including Shenandoah and After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United. As Assistant Editor, he had the opportunity to work on several award-winning and high-profile projects, such as Trouble the Water, Maria Full of Grace, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137875533-SAE9ABHX82THHTAEATBM/POGOFF_Samin+Pogoff+image_6483441.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Samin Pogoff / NY Samin Pogoff is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. She has worked as an editor and producer on documentaries as well as TV, short films and news. Samin was an editor on the founding team of Vice News Tonight on HBO. Most recently, Samin edited Waiting for David, a feature documentary about a survivor and believer in David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Some of her previous documentary edit work include Untouchable (Tribeca, 2016), A World in Disarray (HBO, 2017) and Up In Arms (History Channel, 2018). Samin is currently in production on a film about her relationship with family after her mom joined a religious cult. The film asks questions about memory and identity in the context of a changing reality in her motherland, Iran. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137876163-2TSKSM0DEIYXV64NIS89/QUIZOZ_Daniela_I_Quiroz_Headshot.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Daniela I. Quiroz / NY Daniela I. Quiroz is a NYC based editor with 9 years of filmmaking experience. She's currently editing a feature-length documentary which follows black farmers who are fighting for food justice in America. Prior to this she edited for the VICE on HBO weekly series and Vice News Tonight for 2 seasons. Before VICE, Daniela worked as an Impact & Engagement editor for Skylight, where she edited the feature-length film, Rebel Citizen, an in-depth look at Haskell Wexler's use of cinematography as a tool for social justice. It premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival. Daniela also runs a non-profit, The Hope Reichbach Fund, which provides paid stipends to low-income college students through internships at Brooklyn non-profits—simultaneously supporting our future leaders and Brooklyn's community organizations. She spends her free time brewing beer and playing fetch with her rescue dog, Kobe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137879154-G9SBBFS4BS0APKV3J78N/RICO_PilarRico_Headshot_KS.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Pilar Rico / NY Pilar Rico is an editor from Spain based in New York City since 2010. She studied film and media studies at the University of Valencia, University van Amsterdam and Rutgers University in New Jersey. Before finding her passion for editing, she worked in film production and film festivals in Europe and the US. Pilar’s feature work focuses on character-driven documentaries dealing with social issues. She has edited feature documentaries by award winning directors Lisa F. Jackson and Sarah Teale’s Grazers: A Cooperative Story and Patrimonio which premiered at 2018 Berlin International Film Festival and Full Frame. In 2016 Pilar edited the feature documentary by Eddie Rosenstein The Freedom to Marry, which tells the inside story of the same-sex marriage movement and won Best Editing and Best Documentary Film at 2016 Savannah Film Festival. Most recently, Pilar edited the feature documentary The Great Green Wall by Emmy nominated writer/director Jared P. Scott and produced by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and which premiered at Venice Film Festival. Outside the editing room, Pilar has worked as director, producer and cameraperson in several films in Spain and America such as Welcome to the World, Green Card and Playing Goodbye. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137880616-R6KEL4ZFK4UDBAEKOISS/ROJAS_Carlos+Rojas+IMG_8395.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Carlos Rojas / NY Carlos Rojas is a documentary editor based in New York City. He has edited They Took Them Alive (Full Frame 2017), Tre, Maison, Dasan (San Francisco Intl FF 2018), and has most recently worked on Netizens (Tribeca Film Festival 2018) as finishing editor. Carlos began his career as assistant editor on The Reckoning, Reportero, Kingdom of Shadows, Miss Sharon Jones! and Sembene! in addition to several animated feature films at Blue Sky Studios. Carlos was also a contributing editor at the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab in 2013 and 2016. Originally from Peru by way of New Jersey, he studied Latin American Studies and economics at Wesleyan University and has an MA in Media Studies from The New School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137881063-5NLKZSYA3A350P6NC5P3/ROMERO_Ligaiya_Romero.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Ligaiya Romero / NY Ligaiya Romero is a documentary editor and filmmaker working with collective memory and the decolonial imagination. She has edited films for the New York Times, CNN's Great Big Story, and was the co-editor for the short documentary Water Warriors. She is the video producer and editor for The Argus Project, a transmedia documentary on police violence and citizen counter-surveillance. The project was supported by Tribeca New Media Fund and presented at Tribeca Film Festival. Ligaiya is a fellow at Firelight Media's Documentary Story Lab and a member of the Queer Producers Collective. She is currently editing, producing, and directing a film about the age-old connection between Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC), our resistance, our wellness, and our magic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137881775-N5H5F859K4BUY46CDUZX/SALAS_JessicaLeeSalas_MSR9516-Edit.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Jessica Lee Salas / NY Jessica Lee Salas, born in South Korea and raised in New Jersey, is a Brooklyn-based freelance news & documentary editor. Her passion for video storytelling was discovered while interning with long­time documentary filmmaker Roger Weisberg. Since then she’s been dedicated to work that informs public policy and our understanding of the human experience. For over five years she produced and edited reports for the PBS NewsHour. Most recently she edited The Loving Generation, a 4-part digital doc series that explores being biracial in America for Topic.com. And her third feature-length doc, Nailed It, will premiere at CAAMFest 2018 this Spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137888559-GLSVVJD4Q26ZVDTD67YT/WALUNAS_Rosie+Walunas+IMG_0376_rosie.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Rosie Walunas / NY Rosie Walunas is a documentary film editor. She recently edited the short documentary The Monolith, which premiered on Vimeo as a Staff Pick and on Short of the Week. She edited on the series America Divided for EPIX and The New Age of Terror for the History Channel. She also worked on the documentary series Time: The Kalief Browder Story and Long Strange Trip. Rosie grew up watching PBS and has a passion for vérité and character-driven films. She has been an organizer and graphic designer for the Blue Collar Post Collective and is a member of Post NY Alliance and New York Women in Film and TV. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525137889969-JR8VP2QV156HICKG32V8/YI_Eugene+Yi+headshot.JPG Fellowship Alumni - Eugene Yi / NY Eugene Yi is an editor based in New York City. His work includes Out of My Hand (2015), which was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Online, his work has been in The New York Times, CNN, Frontline, the Washington Post, Buzzfeed News, and Al Jazeera. He was named one of the Bay Area Video Coalition’s 2017 National MediaMaker Fellows for Free Chol Soo Lee (working title), an in-progress documentary feature he is directing with journalist Julie Ha. He was an assistant editor on Inside Job (2010), winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary. He is a native of Los Angeles and a graduate of Brown University, where he studied neuroscience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1525138060170-771FBKW7OZDHH813VVHC/YU_Anita_Yu_Headshot_63.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Anita Hei-Man Yu / NY Anita Hei-Man Yu is a New York-based, multi-faceted assistant editor. After an early career in short-form videos and web series, she has transitioned in recent years to feature documentary projects. She has assisted on several major feature documentaries, including Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Baltimore Rising, and the Academy Award-nominated Strong Island. She also executed motion graphics for the documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry, created digital composites for Words of Witness, and looks forward to advancing her experience in the realm of documentary editing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1488939670609-WWSBQJD08P2N9NBDPKIK/Leigh+Johnson+Schmeer+Fellow+2017.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Leigh Johnson / NY / Emerging Editor Fellow 2017 Leigh Johnson is a New York based film editor. She most recently edited Us Kids, a documentary directed by Kim Snyder that premiered at Sundance in 2020 and won the Human Rights Award at Full Frame. Previously she edited the HBO documentary It's A Hard Truth Ain't It, which premiered at Tribeca, was nominated for an Emmy, and is the first feature film co-directed by men inside a maximum-security prison released for a wide audience. This edit was done in close collaboration with the men in prison, co-director Madeleine Sackler, and animator Yoni Goodman. She also edited the HBO documentary Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus, directed by Madeleine Sackler, which interweaves the personal, political, and artistic threads of a theater troupe's work under an authoritarian regime. This film premiered at Toronto and won an Emmy for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming. She was a Contributing Editor at the Sundance Edit and Story Labs and the 2017 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. Photo Credit: Tanya Braganti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1601227550674-PNSVBE6TN0PW8EDD6WLM/MEYER.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Eileen Meyer / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow 2016 Eileen Meyer is a documentary film editor in Los Angeles, CA. She is the co-editor of the Emmy award-winning film Best of Enemies, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 and was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. She was awarded the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship in 2016, attended the Sundance Edit and Story Lab, and was nominated for the Cinema Eye Honors "Outstanding Achievement in Editing" award. Most recently, a film she edited and produced, Alabama Bound, won a Grand Jury prize at NewFest, an Audience Choice award at the Sidewalk Film Festival, and will be premiering on PBS in March of 2018. Twitter: @eileeneditor Photo Credit: Clair Marie Vogel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1426013746911-DN57RSDUT4EGTMVXT9XL/Anna_MG_3815medium.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Anna Gustavi / NY / Emerging Edtior Fellow 2015 Anna Gustavi is a New York based editor who grew up in Sweden. She most recently edited Seymour: An Introduction, a documentary directed by Ethan Hawke which follows Seymour Bernstein, an 84 year old pianist-turned-piano teacher that shares his thoughts on music, creativity and why a big career isn’t necessarily a good thing. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival in 2014. While in art school in Sweden, Anna was drawn to the boundary-pushing work of experimental film and video artists. She received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and since then her work has straddled the worlds of art and film. She is currently editing One Bullet Afghanistan, directed by Carol Dysinger, a documentary that explores the profound effect one stray bullet can have on a family, a community, a nation, and a war. Photo Credit: Tanya Braganti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1421720991626-IHGEA0MCRJCY515VGXLP/Colin_9601horizSmRecroppedjpg.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Colin Nusbaum / NY / Emerging Editor Fellow 2014 Colin Nusbaum is a film editor whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca, SXSW, HotDocs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, DOCNYC, Full Frame and many others. Most recently, Colin edited Bonni Cohen and Jon Sheik's documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which opened the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Colin's other credits include editor of the short documentary Divided City, which premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2017 and will be broadcast on PBS's Reel South series. To the Edge of the Sky played at the Stony Brook Film Festival in 2017. The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2015, before showing at Sheffield, Camden, Full Frame and online as part of the New York Times OpDoc series. Colin also edited Stephanie Wang-Breal’s Tough Love, co-edited Andrea Scott's Florence, Arizona, as well as Caveh Zahedi's The Sheik And I. In 2014, Colin was awarded the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship for his work as an emerging documentary editor. Colin earned a BA from The College of Wooster studying Political Theory and holds an MA in Media Studies and Film from The New School in New York, NY. He lives, works, bicycles around, and practices Aikido in Brooklyn, New York. He is supported by the love of his partner Tatyana and a cat named Isabella. Photo Credit: Tanya Braganti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54b469e1e4b047c98e1a367d/1421720998127-RJAWFX19XQ40JOXFXETN/Jim_Hession_6902_600x400.jpg Fellowship Alumni - Jim Hession / LA / Emerging Editor Fellow 2013 Jim Hession is a film editor. Most recently, he edited and co-wrote The Lovers and the Despot (directed by Robert Cannan & Ross Adam). The film debuted at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival before being acquired by Magnolia Pictures. Hession is the editor of Rich Hill (directed by Tracy Droz Tragos & Andrew Droz Palermo), winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The film was deemed by RogerEbert.com as being "a documentary to rank alongside such classics about indigence and family as Grey Gardens and Hoop Dreams." He is also co-editor (along with E. Donna Shepherd) of Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (directed by Matthew Akers). The movie garnered numerous honors, including a George Foster Peabody Award, an Emmy Award, and the Panorama Audience Award at the 2012 Berlin International Film Festival. Including the film on his list of the year's 10 best movies, John Waters concluded that it is "maybe the most perfect documentary ever made about an artist." He was the recipient of the 2013 Annual Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Award, an Emmy Award nominee, and a three-time Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab fellow. Hession holds a B.A. in American Studies from Tufts University. 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