- Stephanie Mechura has been editing documentary films for 25 years, teaming up with storytellers who share a simple ideal: a powerful film can change our world for the better.
Mechura's career began at Winton DuPont Films in San Francisco, where she fell in love with long-form documentary film editing under the tutelage of long-time President of the San Francisco Film Society, David Winton. During her tenure at WdF, Stephanie witnessed the potential documentary films have for creating social change, editing specials for PBS, and multi-part series for National Geographic. She went on to become a staff editor with Lucasfilm, Ltd. in George Lucas' Documentary Unit at Skywalker Ranch, editing dozens of historical documentaries which aspired to tell stories from the past as a lens through which we might examine events of the present day.
A freelance editor ever since, Stephanie's feature-length docs have premiered at U. S. festivals such Sundance, Telluride, DOC NYC, Human Rights Watch and others, as well as the European Independent Film Festival. Her films have appeared on multiple broadcast specials and series, most notably PBS Frontline and Independent Lens, Amazon Prime and Apple+, as well as The New York Times OpDocs. Stephanie's Emmy-nominated films have received many of journalism's highest awards, including the DuPont Columbia Award, the Nestor Almendros Award for Courage in Filmmaking, and the Daniel Pearl Award for Excellence in Journalism. Through her close affiliations with the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, Stephanie continues to work alongside the world's most dedicated journalists and filmmakers to bring their stories to light. Her recent films include The Movement and the 'Madman' which earned her the 2023 UNAFF Award for Best Editing, and The Game Changers, directed by Oscar-Winning filmmaker Louis Psihoyos, which broke streaming records on Netflix and Apple+ the first week of its release in 2018.
Stephanie splits her time between Northern California and Paris, France.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Stephanie Mechura
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