ANNOUNCING THE 2022-2023 KAREN SCHMEER FELLOWS!

We have launched our 2022-2023 group fellowship program and are happy to welcome 30 new fellows!

The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship is designed to cultivate the careers of talented documentary editors, associate editors and assistant editors from historically underrepresented backgrounds, identities, and experiences through mentorship to help them grow as artists and build their community. By investing in editors, we affirm and strengthen the critical role editors play in documentary storytelling. Since 2010 we have supported 82 people through our programs. From our open call for applications, thirty fellows from around the country were selected for this year’s program. 

The fellows and their seasoned editor mentors will meet in small groups each month over the course of one year to discuss a range of self-selected topics centered around life and work experiences, the craft of editing, and the business of it. This year there are fifteen fellows in New York, five in Los Angeles, five in the San Francisco Bay Area and five living outside these major metropolitan areas who will be meeting virtually.

This year’s fellows are:

Read more about this year’s fellows:  www.karenschmeer.com/fellows2022

This year’s mentors are:  

Read more about this year’s mentors: www.karenschmeer.com/mentors2022

The 2022-2023 fellowship year is dedicated to the memory of Lewis Erskine: editor, colleague, teacher, mentor, and friend of the fellowship who was instrumental in the growth of our programs. His legacy includes not only a wealth of films, but a generosity of spirit and a vital and enduring call to make the documentary industry a more equitable space. 

Read Lewis’ keynote speech at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Art of Editing event: www.sundance.org/blogs/editor-lewis-erskine-examine-your-privilege-question-it-constantly