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HÖF, URSULA

Ursula Höf No birth date available. Ursula Höf (sometimes credited as Olla Höf) began working as an apprentice editor in 1970 before editing her first film in 1975. She has earned ninety editing credits spanning narrative, documentary, features, and shorts for both film and television. Höf collaborated with Helke Sander on several landmark feminist films…

WILLI, MONIKA

Monika Willi Born 1968 Monika Willi, with thirty-one credits, is an Austrian editor of both narrative and documentary films. She began working in 1997 and received the Femina Film Award at the Max Ophüls Festival for her first theatrical feature, Florian Flicker’s Suzie Washington. Willi has been a regular collaborator with directors Michael Haneke (The…

HILLGROVE, VIVIEN

Vivien Hillgrove Born 1946 Vivien Hillgrove, a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has over fifty years of experience as an editor and a sound editor for both narrative and documentary films. In the 1980’s and 90’s, Hillgrove worked as a dialogue editor on many feature films, including Amadeus, Blue Velvet…

ROBERTS, KIM

Kim Roberts, ACE Born 1970 Kim Roberts, ACE, is an editor of feature documentaries who won an “Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming” Emmy for Tricia Regan’s Autism the Musical. She received Eddie Award nominations for Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’ and Robert Kenner’s Food, Inc. (which was also nominated for an Oscar). Roberts worked…

SCHNEIDER, BERNICE

Bernice Schneider No birth date available. Bernice Schneider trained at MIT’s Media Lab under the direction of cinema-verité filmmaker Richard Leacock and has worked as a documentary film editor for over twenty years. In addition to independent feature films, she has edited numerous films for five series on PBS: The American Experience, Frontline, American Masters,…

SCHMEER, KAREN

Karen Schmeer, ACE 1970 – 2010 Karen Schmeer, ACE, began her career by editing a film that director Errol Morris had feared was completely uneditable, 1997’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. Morris publicly credited Schmeer with saving that film by weaving four disparate characters’ stories into a poetic symphony about human emotion, whimsy, and…

SAFIYARI, HAYEDEH

Hayedeh Safiyari Born 1960 Hayedeh Safiyari (هایده صفی‌یاری‎) is an Iranian film editor and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who began working in 1993 and has seventy editing credits, primarily for narrative films but also some documentaries. She is best known for her long-time collaboration with Iranian director Asghar…

LONDON, MELODY

Melody London Born 1954 Melody London began her editing career in 1984 with Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise, which won festival awards at both Cannes and Sundance. She continued collaborating with Jarmusch on his next two features (Down by Law, Mystery Train) as well as two segments of Coffee and Cigarettes. In these works, London employed…

Appendix D: The Collaborative Update

Appendix D: The Collaborative Update During the year I was researching, people kept giving me names. Now that the site is launched, more people are sending me names because there’s no end to the remarkable women who have been, or are, editors. I can’t create new pages (sorry!), but in the spirit of collaboration with…

Appendix C: Editing 101

Appendix C: Editing 101 This appendix has links to articles and videos that talk in detail about the actual work of editing. They define terms, give examples, discuss approaches, etc. It’s divided it into five sections: Online Articles, Online Videos, Feature Films, Books, and Miscellaneous. Instead of separating tech from aesthetics, we organized it to…