
Editing Across Storytelling Forms
Free Talks
| 60 MINUTESEditing is an important storytelling tool and works in different ways across different types of media forms. Join us as editors from American Cinema Editors who have work in the festival discuss their documentary, narrative and television processes.
Panelists

Stephanie Filo Jones
Stephanie Filo, ACE is a four time Emmy winning, as well as Peabody and ACE Eddie Award- winning Film and TV Editor, Producer and Activist based in Los Angeles, CA and Sierra Leone, West Africa. She serves on the board for Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone, a social impact and feminist-based organization for Sierra Leonean girls aged 11-16. She is one of the co-founders of End Ebola Now, and organization created in 2014 to spread accurate information and awareness about the Ebola Virus and its impact through artistic community activism.
Aside from editing film and television, Stephanie spends much of her spare time producing and editing social action campaigns and documentaries, primarily focused on the rights of women and girls worldwide. Some of her notable campaigns include her work with the United Nations, International Labour Organization, and the Obama White House Task Force's It's On Us campaign to combat campus sexual assault. Her charitable work has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, Telegraph UK, Yahoo, Al Jazeera, XWhy Magazine, and various others.
Her work on the news documentary series Mental State earned her an Emmy nomination for the episode "Aging Out" about youth aging out of the American foster care system. She earned an Emmy win for her editing on the Mental State episode "Separated" which covered ICE deportations, making herself and Nzinga Blake the first Sierra Leonean women to ever win an Emmy award. In 2021, she won a Prime<me Emmy award for her work on HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show, making her team the first all-Women of Color editing team to take home the award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. In 2022, she made history again as a member of the first all-black editing team to be nominated for and win both an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for A Black Lady Sketch Show. In 2023, she made history again, as the first Picture Editor to ever be Emmy nominated for 3 different series at the same time. Most recently, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her work on the feature We Grown Now.

Mollie Goldstein
Mollie Goldstein, ACE “Seasoned” is a Brooklyn-based film editor with over two decades of experience in post production. Her first feature was Palindromes, for director Todd Solondz. Notable credits since then include Not Okay, directed for Searchlight Pictures by Quinn Shephard; Little Men, directed by Ira Sachs; and Dickinson, Alena Smith's Peabody-winning series for Apple TV+. Upcoming projects include Jason Biggs' directorial debut, Unitled Home Invasion Romance, and the first live-action feature from Pixar's Andrew Stanton, In the Blink of an Eye. Mollie freelances for the Criterion Collection when not working in film or TV and is the co-chair of the ACE Internship Program in New York. She is also a proud member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700.

Sabine Hoffman
Sabine Hoffman, ACE has edited award-winning fic<on feature films for over 20 years for Rebecca Miller (Personal Velocity, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Maggie's Plan, She Came To Me), Richard LaGravenese (The Last Five Years), Julie Taymor (The Glorias), Rebecca Hall (Passing), A.V. Rockwell (A Thousand And One), Roger Ross Williams
(Cassandro)and Tony Goldwyn (Ezra). Sabine has also edited two episodes of Pachinko and numerous documentary films including Academy Award-nominated FERRY TALES, Thomas Allan Harris' THE TWELVE DISCIPLES OF NELSON MANDELA, Laura Poitras' TERROR CONTAGION and is the co-producer of Shalini Kantayya's films CATCHING THE SUN and Emmy-nominated CODED BIAS. She serves as an adjunct at Columbia University, as a consultant and mentor to filmmaking organiza<ons such as the Gotham, Firelight Media, Reel Works and the Sundance Insttute and is a member of AMPAS.

Andrew Morreale
Andrew Morreale is an award-winning editor, producer, director that has worked in the film and television industry for nearly 40 years. He currently works as an editor at Imagine Documentaries. His recent credits include Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and PETS the Imagine documentary directed by Bryce Dallas Howard (now streaming on Disney Plus). Morreale was a co-executive producer for the documentary series Friday Night Tykes (Esquire Network), co-producer and editor on Geraldine Ferraro Paving The Way (Showtime), and a cocreator for ESPN's popular series The World Series of Poker. As a veteran editor, he is known for the Academy Award nominated film doc short, An Essay on Matisse, DADS (AppleTV) directed by Bryce Dallas Howard and We Feed People (Nat Geo) directed by Ron Howard.He directed Beyond Broken, a documentary short film that won best doc at the Long Island International Expo and was an official selection at DOC-NYC in 2014. Other notable credits include: Churchill at War (Netflix), On Pointe (Disney), Playing for the Mob (ESPN 3030), Wartorn (HBO), Namath (HBO) I Have Tourette's (HBO), Nine Innings From Ground Zero (HBO), Uncle Frank (HBO), and The Trial of Saddam Hussein (PBS). Andrew has been a member of American Cinema Editors (ACE) since 2014. In his spare time, Morreale runs a bi-annual charity event, Will Sing For Food, (created in 2011) raising money for local food pantries and spreading the joy of music.
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