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The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship invite you to a day of in-depth, peer-to-peer conversation on the art and craft of editing feature nonfiction with some of the best editors working today.
Part II: Craft Conversations: Directing the Edit
Kate Amend (The Keepers), Erin Casper (Risk)​, Greg Finton (Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind), and moderator Pedro Kos (Bending the Arc) share insights on navigating a rapidly changing production landscape and making room for creative approaches to complex edits.
Pedro Kos is an award-winning director and editor whose feature documentary directorial debut, Bending the Arc (co-directed with Kief Davidson), premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. His editing credits include The Square (Emmy for best nonfiction editing), Waste Land, and The Island President, and his prior work also includes Elemental and Sing China! Pedro is from Brazil and received his BA in theatre directing from Yale University.
Claudia Puig is the president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, an entertainment journalist for NPR, and the Mendocino Film Festival program director. Previous roles include USA Today critic and Los Angeles Times staff writer, and she also has a consulting business specializing in film analysis and diversity issues. Claudia has a BA in communications from UCLA and an MA in communications from USC, and she has also studied at Cambridge University and Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City.
Kate Amend is the editor of two Academy Award–winning documentary features—Into The Arms of Strangers and The Long Way Home—and is the recipient of the International Documentary Association’s inaugural award for outstanding achievement in editing. Her recent credits include Serena: The Other Side of Greatness for Epix, and The Keepers, a Netflix series.
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, IDFA, Hot Docs, Tribeca, and more. Her most recent film is Risk, a complex character study about controversial WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, directed by Laura Poitras. Erin’s editing credits include American Promise, The Last Season, The New Black, and Our School.
Greg Finton, ACE, has worked for over 25 years editing documentaries, television, and feature films. His credits include It Might Get Loud, Waiting For Superman, The World According to Dick Cheney, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, He Named Me Malala, and Fantastic Lies. His work has received editing nominations for Emmy, ACE Eddie, and Satellite Awards.
Jeff Malmberg is a documentary director and editor whose debut film Marwencol won two Independent Spirit Awards and was recently named a Cinema Eye Decade film as one of the 20 best documentary films in the last 10 years. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his second film, Spettacolo, which was was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for best documentary.
Alex O’Flinn is a film editor in Los Angeles who works in narrative and documentary. Some of his editing credits include The Rider, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, In Real Life, and Autism In Love. Alex received a best editing nomination from the Independent Spirit Awards for his work on The Rider and is the recipient of Sundance Institute’s Sally Menke Memorial Editing Fellowship.
Kim Roberts is an Emmy–winning editor of feature documentaries. Her recent work includes Unrest, The Hunting Ground, Waiting for Superman, Food, Inc., and Inequality For All. Kim won an Emmy for Autism the Musical and a 2017 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for editing for Unrest. She is an active member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
