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February 28, 2013, 7:33 am
We'll be announcing the recipient of the 2013 Fellowship on Thursday, March 8. He or she will be presented with the Fellowship at the SXSW Film Awards Ceremony on the following Tuesday in Austin, TX.
July 24, 2017, 5:53 am
Schmeer Fellow Leigh Johnson's first entry for the POV Blog's Enter the Edit series has been published. It’s a rollicking interview with Penelope Falk, the award-winning doc editor of Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Maidentrip, and Step. She’s also one of Leigh’s Karen Schmeer Fellowship mentors. They discuss Penny’s own mentors, why it’s okay to be wrong, the importance of figuring out thematic principles of the film you’re working on, and much more!Penny on how to use notes f...
March 8, 2017, 10:44 am
Leigh Johnson (Photo by Tanya Braganti)
We're delighted to announce that Leigh Johnson is our 2017 fellow! Leigh is an incredibly talented emerging editor who has impressed us with her passion for the craft, her thoughtful approach to the creative process and her love of col...
March 4, 2017, 8:07 am
Lewis Erskine speaks at the Karen Schmeer Fellowship’s Art of Editing Lunch at the 2017 Festival. © Sundance Institute | Max Spooner
In his keynote at this year's Sundance Art of Editing lunch, Lewis Erskine urged editors and decision makers to “Examine your privilege. Question it constantly... If you’re in the [decision making] room, take the risk of being the disruptor.” It was an extraordinary call to action a...
January 18, 2017, 6:23 am
Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr in BEST OF ENEMIES, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
This is the fifth (and last!) in a series of posts on POV’s Documentary Blog about the regrettably underappreciated process and craft of documentary editing with our guide, 2016 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow Eileen Meyer. Catch up on earlier conversations with Meyer.Coffee. Meditation. Mentorship...
October 29, 2016, 9:26 am
Our 2017 fellowship open call is now closed. The deadline was September 30, 2016. Thank you to all who applied. Applicants will be notified of their status in early January, 2017.
August 2, 2016, 4:35 pm
The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship open call for its seventh annual award will run August 3, 2016 through September 30, 2016.Applicants must have edited at least one feature documentary (60 minutes or longer) but no more than three and plan on living in the US between March 2017 and March 2018. The fellowship assists emerging documentary editors by developing their talent, expanding their creative community, and furthering their career aspirations. In conjunction with American Cinema...
May 26, 2016, 9:07 am
This is the second in a series of posts on POV’s Documentary Blog about the regrettably underappreciated process and craft of documentary editors. Our guide is Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow Eileen Meyer. Read the first conversation with Meyer.
food, inc., A film by robert kenner / magnolia pictures
I spoke with one my mentors, Kim Roberts, A.C.E., about her work in the social issue documentary realm. She h...
March 9, 2016, 10:29 am
Eileen Meyer (Photo by Claire Marie Vogel)
We're excited to announce that Eileen Meyer is our 2016 fellow! Eileen impressed us with her her confident spirit, strong work ethic, and the ways in which she has been pushing herself to new professional heights. We also loved her playful and insightful editorial style in her work as an editor of Best of Enemies , a documentary about ideological opposites William ...
March 8, 2016, 10:37 am
At this year's Sundance Film Festival, documentary editing legend Kate Amend gave an inspiring keynote speech at the Art of Editing Lunch co-hosted by Sundance Institute and the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. It was a funny, wise, instructive and heartfelt speech about her life as an artist, the role of an editor and her journey through the ranks of the industry. Read her speech here.
October 28, 2015, 5:12 am
DOC NYC EDITING MASTERCLASSCo-presented by the Karen Schmeer Film Editing FellowshipSunday, November 15 at 11:30amBow Tie Chelsea CinemasWhat do documentary editors do to bring a story to life? Esteemed documentary editors Karen K.H. Sim (Watchers of the Sky, Back on Board: Greg Louganis) and Fiona Otway (Hell and Back Again, Iraq In Fragments) share storytelling secrets as they review favorite scenes from their own work. Moderator, Oscar-nominated Jeanne Jordan (Troublesome Creek, Raisin...
Sebastián Sepúlveda joins Gordon to discuss the editing of the film Jackie. They explore how structuring a real ...
Stuart joins Gordon to discuss A Series of Unfortunate Events for Netflix and what the difference is between working for Broa ...
In this episode of The Cutting Room, we explain just where we have been for the past four months. We'll begin regularly ...
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