ANNOUNCING THE 2024-2025 KAREN SCHMEER FELLOWS
/We have launched our 2024-2025 group fellowship program and are happy to welcome 22 new fellows from across the country!
The 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 2011 we have supported 161 editors through our programs.
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 and ethics of it. This year there are ten fellows in New York, five in Los Angeles, and seven 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/fellows2024
This year’s mentors are:
Read more about this year’s mentors: www.karenschmeer.com/mentors2024
“We are excited to be entering our thirteenth year of supporting documentary editors in our fellowship program. Our talented and driven fellows are joining an impressive group of alumni. We want our fellows to be able to weather the challenges of our ever-changing industry and build sustainable careers. We believe that a range of perspectives, understandings, and life experiences are fundamental to the documentary process and we want our fellows to be a part of shaping our field through the vital stories they tell,” says KSFEF President Maya Mumma.
ABOUT THE KAREN SCHMEER FELLOWSHIP
The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship was created in memory of Karen Schmeer, ACE, the accomplished film editor of “The Fog of War,” “Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,” and “Bobby Fischer Against the World,” among other films, who was tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident in New York City in 2010. Its mission is to foster the development of emerging documentary film editors by creating opportunities for creative growth and professional community building. Since 2010 we have supported 161 assistant, associate and emerging editors in our programs with 22 fellows in our current fellowship program.
The KSFEF is supported by generous donations from institutions and individuals who have been touched by Karen and her films, and who believe in our mission to support editors nationwide. Its organizational partners are: American Cinema Editors (ACE), Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Adobe, SXSW, Manhattan Edit Workshop, A&E IndieFilms, DCTV, Sound Lounge, Netflix, IFFBoston, LEF, International Documentary Association (IDA), Rooftop Films, East Coast Digital, Final Frame, Pure Nonfiction, DOC NYC, Camden International Film Festival, General Assembly, and SVA MFA Social Documentary Film.
For additional information, including bios of all fellows, alumni, mentors, and board, how to join our mailing list, and how to make a donation, please visit www.karenschmeer.com.
If you are looking to hire for your next production or know someone who is, we have a sortable and searchable database of all of our program alumni and current fellows: www.karenschmeer.com/hire.