Above all, I strive to tell
a lucid and affecting story.
In so doing, I bring to bear my zeal
for the shaping of time, images and sound
on the creative process of editing.
STEVEN J. GOLLIDAY
EDITOR
RECENT PROJECTS:
King in the Wilderness - HBO
World Premiere, Sundance Film Festival 2018
From the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. remained a man with an unshakeable commitment to nonviolence in the face of an increasingly unstable country. A portrait of the last years of his life.
Director: Peter Kunhardt, Producers: George Kunhardt, Teddy Kunhardt
Edited with: Maya Mumma, ACE
Broadcast: April 2018
As Co-Editor:
Far From the Tree - Participant Media
Centerpiece Premiere, DOC NYC Film Festival 2017
Far From The Tree, based on the book by Andrew Solomon, looks at the difficulties and rewards of both raising and being a child whose life is vastly different from that of his or her parents. The film follows several families as they cope with the challenges presented by Down syndrome, dwarfism, autism, and having a child in prison.
Director: Rachel Dretzin, Co-Director: Jamila Ephron, Edited with: Ben Gold
Theatrical Release: Summer 2018
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Editor
King in the Wilderness
Kunhardt Films for HBO, March 2017-Present, NYC
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2018
Editor for this feature-length documentary, which chronicles the last three years of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life,
highlighting his lesser-known crusades against housing segregation, the war in Vietnam and poverty.
Editor
The Constitution Project: The Supremacy Clause
The Documentary Group, January 2017-March 2017, NYC
Editor for an installment of the award-winning educational film series that explore landmark Supreme Court cases
and key constitutional concepts in accessible ways.
Co-Editor
Far From the Tree
Ark Media, July 2015-January 2017, NYC
Centerpiece Premiere, DOC NYC Film Festival, 2017
Edited sections and helped develop story ideas for this forthcoming feature length documentary, based on the book of the same title by award-winning author Andrew Solomon.
Assistant Editor
The Age of Aerospace
The Documentary Group, October 2013-July 2015, NYC
Helped establish and maintain post-production operations on this multi-part historical documentary about the last one hundred years of aerospace and the influential role of the Boeing company. Responsible for extensive media management, creating string-outs, exports, graphics and compositing.
Assistant Editor
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Ark Media, February 2013-October 2013, NYC
Assistant to three producer/editor teams on a six episode series about African American history for PBS. Responsible for ingesting footage, archival material organization, multi-camera syncing, exports, and preparing sequences for sound mix and online edit.
Also tasked with motion-graphics work, string-outs, and cutting in narration and music cues.
ABOUT ME:
My journey into the realm of film and video editing began with formative explorations of drawing, painting, printmaking and music.
I was further propelled by exposure to conceptual art films, documentary and critical theory while a student
at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2007.
Upon graduating from CalArts, I received the $25,000 Gelman Travel Fellowship, which allowed me to spend the better part of one year in the culturally rich and diverse country of Panama, collaborating on documentary video projects with a talented group of local artists and musicians.
In 2009, on a hope and a dream, I moved to Brooklyn, New York with my wife, Emily Singer Chapman, a documentary producer,
to pursue careers in film. We have lived here along with our cat, Nicky, ever since.
Photo courtesy Masiar Pasquali
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