Biography
Trained at the BBC in London, I emigrated to Boston, MA, in 1986. I am an award-winning film editor who has worked at many production companies, including WGBH, and as a freelance editor and consultant. My work includes Jim Allison: Breakthrough which premiered at SXSW and was one of the Washington Post’s Top Ten Movies of 2019; Poetry In America for which he has worked as both Editor and Editing Consultant; Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, which aired on American Masters PBS; Latino Americans for PBS, which won a Peabody Award in 2012; The Last Mountain, which was an Official Selection at Sundance 2011 and winner of the IDA Pare Lorentz award; The Price of Sugar, which won the Emerging Visions Award at SXSW and was short-listed for an Academy Award; and Harvest of Fear,
a Frontline/NOVA co-production which won a duPont-Columbia award. As a
sound editor at the BBC in 1984 I was nominated for a British Academy award for
Bleak House.
I work in a broad variety of styles, ranging from cinema verité films like The Year We Thought About Love, to dramatized documentaries like The War That Made America, and Reconstruction: The Second Civil War for PBS. I have made museum installations for the WWII Museum in New Orleans and directed two children’s comedies, Act Your Age and An Alien Sneezed on Brook Street.
I also have extensive experience as an editing consultant. This can take several forms: from a few hours advising a first time director on what to expect during post, to a week fine-tuning a director’s edit, to several months guiding a junior editor with very detailed notes from big ideas to tiny trims.
I also have extensive experience as an editing consultant. This can take several forms: from a few hours advising a first time director on what to expect during post, to a week fine-tuning a director’s edit, to several months guiding a junior editor with very detailed notes from big ideas to tiny trims.
Awards
25 Texans in The Land of Lincoln
Audience Award: GlobeDocs Festival 2019
Best Doc Short: San Antonio Film Festival 2019
Best Doc Short: Boston Latino International Film Festival
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Offical Selection Independent Film Festival of Boston
Offical Selection South By SouthWest
Best Science Doc: Bergen International Film Festival 2019
Washington Post’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
Independent Lens, PBS 2020
The Year We Thought About Love
Audience Award: Southwest Gay Lesbian Film Festival
16th Annual Social Justice Award for Documentary Film
James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work
WorldFest HIFF Remi Award
Latino Americans: A History
Peabody Award 2012
The Last Mountain
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2011
The People vs. Leo Frank
Special Jury Award, History Makers 2010
Audience Award: GlobeDocs Festival 2019
Best Doc Short: San Antonio Film Festival 2019
Best Doc Short: Boston Latino International Film Festival
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Offical Selection Independent Film Festival of Boston
Offical Selection South By SouthWest
Best Science Doc: Bergen International Film Festival 2019
Washington Post’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
Independent Lens, PBS 2020
The Year We Thought About Love
Audience Award: Southwest Gay Lesbian Film Festival
16th Annual Social Justice Award for Documentary Film
James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work
WorldFest HIFF Remi Award
Latino Americans: A History
Peabody Award 2012
The Last Mountain
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2011
The People vs. Leo Frank
Special Jury Award, History Makers 2010
Circus Dreams
Winner: Sprockets Toronto Int. Festival for Children & Youth
Winner: Boston International Film Festival
Winner: Seattle International Fim Festival
Sin City Law
IDA Award 2008
The Price of Sugar
Short-listed for Academy Award 2008
Emerging Visions Award, South by Southwest
The Gift of the Game
Best of the Fest Award, 2002 Woods Hole Film Festival
Frontline: Harvest of Fear
Winner: Du Pont Columbia Award
Nova: Battles in the War on Cancer
American Cancer Society Award, CINE Golden Eagle Award,
National Emmy Award Nomination, New York Film & TV Festival Finalist
Bleak House, BBC TV
British Academy Award (BAFTA) Nomination for Best Sound Editing
Winner: Sprockets Toronto Int. Festival for Children & Youth
Winner: Boston International Film Festival
Winner: Seattle International Fim Festival
Sin City Law
IDA Award 2008
The Price of Sugar
Short-listed for Academy Award 2008
Emerging Visions Award, South by Southwest
The Gift of the Game
Best of the Fest Award, 2002 Woods Hole Film Festival
Frontline: Harvest of Fear
Winner: Du Pont Columbia Award
Nova: Battles in the War on Cancer
American Cancer Society Award, CINE Golden Eagle Award,
National Emmy Award Nomination, New York Film & TV Festival Finalist
Bleak House, BBC TV
British Academy Award (BAFTA) Nomination for Best Sound Editing
Resume
Bombshell, 2026
Produced by Ben Loeterman for The American Experience, PBS
Poetry In America, 2017-2026
Directed by Elisa New for PBS
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip, 2019
Produced by Ben Loeterman for American Masters, PBS
25 Texans in The Land of Lincoln, 2018
Produced by Ellen Brodsky
– Audience Award: GlobeDocs Festival
– Best Doc Short: San Antonio Film Festival
– Best Doc Short: Boston Latino International Film Festival
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Directed by Bill Haney
– Offical Selection Independent Film Festival of Boston
– Offical Selection South By SouthWest
– Best Science Doc: Bergen International Film Festival 2019
– Washington Post’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
– Independent Lens, PBS 2020
Various videos and graphics for Museum Installations, 2017
Northern Light Productions
Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive, 2016
Produced by Eric Stange for American Masters, PBS
– Offical Selection Independent Film Festival of Boston
Nasser: The People’s Republic, 2015
Produced by Michal Goldman
Young Voices for the Planet:
10 Short Success Stories, 2015
Produced by Lynne Cherry
The Year We Thought About Love, 2015
Produced by Ellen Brodsky
– Audience Award: Southwest Gay Lesbian Film Festival
– 16th Annual Social Justice Award for Documentary Film
James Baker: The Man Who Made Washington Work, 2013
Produced by Eric Stange for PBS
– WorldFest HIFF Remi Award
Latino Americans: A History, 2012
Produced by Adriana Bosch for WETA
– Peabody Award
– Imagen Award: Best Informational Program
John Portman: A Life of Building, 2011
Produced by Ben Loeterman
Sounds of the Silents
Produced by Lynn Cadwallader
The Last Mountain, 2010
Directed by William Haney
Co-Written by Peter Rhodes
– Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2011
Frontline: Inside the Meltdown, 2009
Produced by Mike Kirk for WGBH
The People vs. Leo Frank
Produced by Ben Loeterman for PBS
– Special Jury Award, History Makers 2010
Circus Dreams
Produced by Signe Taylor
– Winner: Sprockets Toronto Int. Festival for Children & Youth
– Winner: Boston International Film Festival
– Winner: Seattle International Fim Festival
Renewal, 2007
Produced by Martin Ostrow and Terry Rockefeller
– Best of Fest, Hazelwolf Environmental Film Festival
Frontline World: Ayurveda
Produced by Jon Palfreman and Steve Atlas for WGBH
Sin City Law, 2006
Produced by Denis Poncet and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade
– IDA Award 2008
The Price of Sugar
Directed by William Haney
Co-Written by Peter Rhodes
– Short-listed for Academy Award 2008
– Emerging Visions Award, South by Southwest
The War That Made America, 2004
Produced by Ben Loeterman for WQED
Racing Against the Clock
Directed by William Haney
Frontline: Diet Wars
Produced by John Palfreman for WGBH
NOVA: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, 2003
Produced by Nancy Porter for WGBH
The American Experience: Reconstruction
Produced by Elizabeth Deanne for WGBH
The Gift of the Game, 2002
Directed by William Haney
– Best Of Fest Award, 2002 Woods Hole Film Festival
Misunderstood Minds
Produced by Mike Kirk for WGBH
The American Experience: Murder at Harvard, 2001
Starring Simon Schama
Produced by Eric Stange for WGBH
Frontline: Harvest of Fear
Produced by John Palfreman for WGBH
– Winner: Du Pont Columbia Award
The American Experience: The Hunt for Dillinger, 2000
Produced by Ben Loeterman for WGBH
The American Experience: Houdini
Produced by Nancy Porter for WGBH
The American Experience: Race for the Superbomb, 1998
Produced by Thomas Ott for WGBH
Yidl in the Middle: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa
Produced by Marlene Booth
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians, 1997
Produced by Bill Cran
Co-Produced by Peter Rhodes for Frontline WGBH
Nova: A Science Odyssey: Bigger, Better, Faster, 1996
Produced by Carl Charlson for WGBH
Frontline: Who’s Afraid of Rupert Murdoch?
Produced by Bill Cran & Jim Gilmore for WGBH
The American Experience: Murder of the Century
Produced by Carl Charlson for WGBH
Breakthrough: Science and the American Dream, 1994
Produced by Joseph Tavares
Nova: Hunt for the Serial Arsonist, 1993
Produced by Carl Charlson for WGBH
Frontline: Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?, 1993
Produced by Bill Cran & Ben Loeterman for WGBH
Frontline: The Trouble with Baseball
Produced by Mike Kirk for WGBH
The Prize: Oil, War and Strategy, 1992
WGBH/BBC
Nova: Made in America?, 1991
WGBH
Chedd Angier Prod. Co, 1986-1991
Nova: Battles in the War on Cancer
– American Cancer Society Award, CINE Golden Eagle Award,
– National Emmy Award Nomination, New York Film & TV Festival Finalist
Nova: Race for the Top
Race to Save the Planet: In the Name of Progress
Scientific American Frontiers
Discover: the World of Science
Aviation Week: Space Shuttle - The Recovery
– CINE Golden Eagle Award
WGBH
Enterprise Special: Run for the Money, 1986
BBC, London, England
Film Editor, 1984-1986
– Panorama
– Timewatch
– The Late Late Breakfast Show
– London Plus
Sound Editor, 1984
– Bleak House
– British Academy Award (BAFTA) Nominationfor Best Sound Editing
Grange Hill
– Twice BAFTA Award Winner for Best Children's Drama
Assistant Film Editor, 1982-1984