Documentary editing
Feature and short-form edits from raw footage to finished picture, including story structure, music, and pacing.
Video editor · Director · DP
Documentary editor, director, and cinematographer.
I have spent my career finding the story inside hours of footage. I edit, direct, and shoot documentaries, from three-minute shorts to feature-length films.
Available for editing, directing, and camera work.
Screening
Peter Liman: Monet of the Mountaintop
Director, DP, editor · 8 minutes · 2023. Peter Liman is an 84-year-old impressionist painter from Glen Rock, New Jersey, and a survivor of mesothelioma. This short film follows his journey as he continues to create art and share his passion with the world.
Credits
Filmography
Selected documentary work, with my role on each.
- 01
Peter Liman: Monet of the Mountaintop
An 84-year-old impressionist painter and cancer survivor who keeps painting.
- 02
The Hustle of @617MikeBiv
A feature-length documentary about Mike Bivins.
- 03
9/11/88
Footage found while digitizing a neighbor’s VHS tape: a family’s visit to the World Trade Center on September 11, 1988, cut into a short documentary.
- 04
NFTme
A docuseries by Tech Talk Media about the innovation, markets, art, and community inside the NFT industry.
- 05
Last Man Standing
Myron Sugerman, storyteller and historian of the Jewish mob, on his life as “the last Jewish gangster.”
- 06
Oswald's Mill Audio
Editor · 3.5 minutes · 2018.
- 07
Subway Pianist Andrew Kalleen
- 08
The Making of ‘Orchids and Violence’
- 09
Discover Beijing
Selected work
Twenty years behind the camera.
From Beijing to the Oscars, some of the places the work has taken me.
Work with me
What I can do for your film.
Directing and cinematography
Owner interviews, verité shoots, and multi-camera coverage, planned with the edit in mind from the first frame.
Business story films
Three to five minute films about a business and the person behind it, built to live on a website and on social.
Short-form and social cuts
Trailers, homepage cuts, and social edits made from footage you already have.
Available for work
Have footage that needs a story?
Send me a link to what you have, or tell me what you want to make, and I will tell you how I would approach the edit.