Storytelling Through Editing

Caitlin Dixon has edited in a variety of film and TV settings, ranging from microbudget independent documentaries and features to television work that has appeared on PBS, Discovery, Oxygen, The Learning Channel, ABC, A&E, WeTV, the Style Network, TruTV, the Sundance Channel, and Cinemax Reel Life. She has edited two films chosen for competition in the Sundance Film Festival: Loggerheads in the scripted feature competition, and FLOW: For Love of Water, in documentary. Recent television work includes Kids Behind Bars, for A&E, examining juvenile detention in American prisons, The Witnesses, a partnership between Oxygen and the Center for Investigative Journalism exploring misconduct in the Jehovah’s Witnesses. She was an editor on an upcoming Netflix documentary series co-produced by Oscar winner Morgan Neville and Emmy Winner Jenji Kohan. Most recently, the festival darling feature-length documentary she edited, Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl, had an extended run on Alamo Drafthouse’s new streaming platform, Alamo On Demand. She is currently editing a documentary about youth activism.

Juli Vizza is an award-winning editor and producer with two decades of experience in both fiction and non-fiction filmmaking. Their films have premiered at the world’s top film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, and Tribeca and have aired on PBS, Showtime, and The History Channel. They received an Emmy Award for editing on the 2002 Winter Olympics for NBC. They recently edited And She Could Be Next, a 2-part series about women of color running for office in the 2018 midterms and the New American Majority fueling their campaigns. It premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and airs on POV in June 2020. Juli is also the editor and producer of Dreams of Daraa, a feature documentary exploring the Syrian conflict through the story of a young mother named Hanadi. Recently, Juli edited The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (American Masters) and Circles (Lionsgate). They co-produced and edited Xmas Without China (SXSW 2013, PBS) and produced Nine to Ninety (HotDocs 2015, PBS) which was nominated for an IDA Award. Prior to their work in documentary editing, Juli worked at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where they edited global publicity segments for big-budget movies including The Da Vinci Code and Quantum of Solace.

Miranda Yousef, ACE, is a feature documentary editor with credits on films that have played Sundance, Tribeca, PBS and HBO. Recent credits include: Daughters of the Sexual Revolution, which premiered at SXSW 2018; episodes of CNN’s Emmy nominee The Seventies and HBO’s State of Play; Academy Award winner Jessica Yu’s 2014 film  Misconception; Inequality for All, winner of a Special Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival; Burn, which won the Audience Award at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival; and Academy Award winner Morgan Neville’s Troubadours, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, played on PBS’s “American Masters,” and was nominated for an Emmy award. Other projects have included: The New Bauhaus, which premiered as the opening film for the Architecture Design Film Festival in New York, and the opening film for the architecture program at Chicago International Film Festival, No Small Matter, a feature-length documentary film and national engagement campaign about early childhood education, Academy Award nominee Kirby Dick’s 2009 release Outrage, 2008 IDA Audience Award winner Food Fight, and 2008 Sundance Film Festival favorite I.O.U.S.A. Miranda studied documentary filmmaking with Marina Goldovskaya at UCLA, and won the DGA Award for Best Director, Women’s Category, for her graduate thesis film.

Shannon Baker Davis, ACE is an award-winning television and film editor, who began her career in New York, editing unscripted shows and documentaries. After 10 years working on many iconic and Emmy-winning shows such as Top Chef and Project Runway, Shannon began adding narrative television and feature films to her resume. Her credits include Insecure, from Issa Rae, Grown-ish, a spin-off of the highly acclaimed series, Black-ish, from creator, Kenya Barris and Queen Sugar, from creator Ava DuVernay. In features, she edited Armstrong, starring Vicky Jeudy, Sean Parsons, Jason Antoon and Kevin Pollak, and The Weekend (Lionsgate), starring Sasheer Zamata, Tone Bell and DeWanda Wise, from director Stella Meghie. The Weekend had its World Premiere at Toronto Film Festival in 2018, and screened at AFI Fest, South by Southwest and Tribeca Film Festival. Next, she cut the feature, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, directed by Ali LeRoi (creator, Everybody Hates Chris) which premiered at TIFF in 2019. Shannon reunited with Stella Meghie on The Photograph (Universal), starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield. Her most recent project is the Netflix series #blackaf, created by Kenya Barris (Black-ish, Grown-ish, Mixed-ish), which stars Barris and Rashida Jones. Her series and film credits run the gamut, from funny to heartbreaking, provocative to visual-effects-heavy and action-packed. She is a member of ACE, where she is a mentor in their Diversity Mentorship Program, and she is the Co-chair of the African-American Steering Committee of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. Shannon grew up in Augusta, GA, earned degrees from Howard University and The American Film Institute, and resides in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and 2 children.

Stacy Goldate is an award-winning mostly-documentary director, producer, and editor who began her career in radio journalism. In addition to directing dozens of films including Dominatrix Waitrix and A Greater Society (co-directed with Craig A. Colton), she has edited numerous documentary productions. Her editing credits include CNN’s The Nineties, The 2000s, and 1968; the Emmy-winning film Out of Iraq, Ashley York’s and Sally Rubin’s Hillbilly, and most recently, Disclosure, directed by Sam Feder. Stacy is currently editing and producing an untitled medical documentary with director Sandra Alvarez.