MOTION PICTURE EDITOR
INSTRUCTOR IN editing, nyu tisch school of the arts
Selected Editing Credits
Artist Nick Cave and curator Denise Markonish watch as Cave’s “CLOUD” is lifted up in MASS MoCA Building 5
Museum Town Editor, Co-Writer. Feature documentary on the founding of MASS MoCA, the largest contemporary art museum in the world.
Directed by Jennifer Trainer. Produced by Rachel Chanoff and Noah Bashevkin. Premiere, South by Southwest 2019. Sarasota, Provincetown, Berkshire, Woodstock, Aspen, Hamptons Int’l, Naples Film Festivals
A Woman Like Me Editor, feature hybrid documentary/drama directed by Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti. About a woman exploring Buddhism, fiction, and the imagination as a way of dealing with a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Featuring Lili Taylor. Special Jury Prize, South by Southwest 2015; Independent Spirit nominee, 2016. Theatrical release, 2015
Here One Day Editor, feature documentary produced and directed by Kathy Leichter. DP Kirsten Johnson. Premiered at IDFA 2012. Multiple festival award-winner: Hot Docs, Cleveland, DOC NYC, Cork, San Francisco Jewish, Independent Film Festival Boston.
Grace Paley: Collected Shorts Editor, feature documentary on author Grace Paley. Lilly Rivlin, producer/ director. 4 back-to-back Audience Awards: Woodstock, Denver Int’l, Wash. Jewish Film Festival and NY Independent Film Festivals. Premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 2010
Editor, Selected Titles
ADDICTED TO LIFE Feature Documentary on the life-and-death story of Paralympic Gold-medalist Marieke Vervoort. Editor and producer/ director, 2022.
MUSEUM TOWN Editor, feature documentary directed by Jennifer Trainer and produced by Rachel Chanoff: on the birth and history of MASS MoCA, the revolutionary contemporary art museum, largest in the world. SxSW 2019, Hamptons Film Festival, Aspen Film etc.
Oli Otya: Life and Death in Uganda Co-editor, feature documentary on American palliative doctors on a team in rural Uganda. Producer/ Director, Lucy Bruell. 2020.
Heather Booth: Changing the World Editor, feature documentary directed by Lilly Rivlin on the “most influential woman you never heard of”, community organizer Heather Booth, 2017: SF Jewish Film Festival, Sarasota, Denver, Toronto Jewish Film festivals
Letters From Baghdad Editor, Cut-down for television, directed by Sabine Krayenbuhl & Zeva Oelbaum on the pioneering first British woman in Iraq, IDFA, Doc NYC et al, 2016
A Woman Like Me Editor, feature hybrid documentary/drama directed by Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti. Featuring Lili Taylor. Special Jury Prize, South by Southwest 2015; Independent Spirit nominee, 2016. Theatrical release, 2015; Netflix selected title.
Here One Day Editor, feature documentary, Kathy Leichter, Producer/Director. DP Kirsten Johnson. IDFA, Hot Docs 2013, Doc NYC, et al. Multiple festival award-winner
Auf Wiedersehen Editor, feature documentary produced and directed by Linda Mills and Peter Goodrich. Philadelphia Int’l Film Festival, Prizewinner, LA and Jerusalem Jewish Film Festivals 2010
Let the Sunshine In, video clip, over 2 million hits on Youtube
Consultant, Sample Cuts, Panels
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, UGFTV: Instructor in Film and Digital Editing, 2018- on-going.
San Francisco Jewish Film Institute, Panelist, First Inaugural Finishing Grant, 2020
Cameraperson Consulting editor, feature documentary by Kirsten Johnson, 2016. Theatrical distribution Janus Films. Oscar documentary shortlist.
Cinefantasy Screenplay Competition, Advisor/ Consulting Producer, International Council for Film Television and Audiovisual Communication, UNESCO, Macau Film Festival, 2016
A Woman Like Me Editor, fundraising sample cut, 2014. Winner of a prestigious production grant from the Sundance Documentary Fund.
Sweetheart Deal Editor, fundraising sample for a feature documentary Directed by Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller; Peggy Case, Producer. This sample cut won a production grant from the Sundance Documentary Fund.
“The Art of Editing”, Panelist at the IFFB Film Festival, Boston, 2013
Esther Broner: A Weave of Women Editorial consultant. Feature documentary on author/ activist Esther Broner, Lilly Rivlin, Producer. 2013
Sarajevo Film Festival, Editorial Consultant to documentary works-in-progress at the “Rough Cut Boutique”, 2012