Steve “Nemi” Nemsick is an industry leading Editor / PrEditor known for bringing creativity and clarity to complex episodes, documentaries, sports series, true crime, socially conscious videos, science/tech, commercials, social media campaigns, branding videos and more. SteveNemsick@gmail.com / NYC / Remote / Avid / Premiere / Adobe Suite / Fios
“I’m fully capable of going it alone and editing without a script or a story producer or even footage. Often times I’m pulling or creating footage to enhance a project. On the flip, I’m a team player through and through, having collaborated with hundreds of people as a freeelancer. My goal is to deliver to your hopes and expectations and to add something more you didn’t know you had.”
EDITOR WORK
ABOUT THE EDITING
Nemi just completed editing a lovely documentary - title TBD - that serves as a bit of a love letter to small, independent French wine makers. “I love jumping from one type of storytelling to another. For this film, I focused on minimizing the storytelling to allow for the harmony of the struggle of the winmaker(s) to shine through.”
Sizzles anyone? It’s too soon to talk specifically about the most recent sizzle that got the Nemi treatment, lets just say there were minimal notes and it’s being pitched to some big dawgs.
For Algiers America (HULU) Nemi cut most of the games and practice montages. The games could have up to 10 cameras and as many characters. Without a script or story producer Nemi cut the pre game/1st half/half time/2nd half and post game while maximizing the story of the game, considering the story arc for the episode and overall thread of the series, making the game as exciting as possible, living in moments and not montages, making the game followable without hand holding - without interviews - and scored it.
Prior to that, Nemi worked on Coach Prime for Amazon and again was tasked with the games and montages and all that comes with it. Nemi was one of two editors on the team that did final passes on episodes to make them stylistically cohesive (transitions, music, sfx, vibes). The same can be said for Nemi’s editing on the BET’s Klutch Academy. And before that, with LeBron’s Springhill Company for Best Shot on Youtube Originals. Again, mostly cutting the games (up to 10 cameras, 30 mics). This expertise was likely honed in his seven seasons editing Friday Night Tykes. This Texas youth football series became a hit, not because of exploitive producing/editing, but for exposing rotten behavior from coaches and parents simply by not getting in their way.
With CNN’s The Wonder List with Bill Weir, Nemi displayed his skill at weaving vo with imagery in a way that wasn’t trite and brought home the essence, danger and peculiarities of Greenland. This episode was edited remotely. Because of Covid they traveled with only half of a typical crew but afterwards they said the editing made it look like they hadn’t made any concessions. The entire episode can be viewed on the “work” page.
“Steve’s got a great eye, timing and soul! We are all impressed.” - Bill Weir
The Vice News film Essential Lives; The Bronx Battles Covid saw Nemi jump on board the proverbial sinking ship with life jackets for all. From director Michael Kamber, “He came in and rescued a project…he was easy to work with, took advice and suggestions and was a consummate professional, I’ve got nothing but good things to say about him…and really got the story, he told it beautifully.”
For Red Bull’s culture series Way Past Midnight, Nemi was able to structure, score and vibe out episodes about break dance battles and late night vogue battles in Barcelona.
A few great films of late that I helped edit were Divide In Concord, Rubbish In The Desert, & Big Crow The Hero In High Tops.
Throughout it all, Nemi always has passion projects, making or editing videos about - HIV/AIDS, women transitioning from welfare to the workforce, religion and Shakespeare in war-torn Bosnia, NYC's homeless, Tokyo bikers, Mexican rape victims raising families inside a garbage dump, immigrants, plastic in the ocean, garbage in a Spanish desert, a Native American tragedy/inspiration story, a WW2 artist/hero story, a Covid doc for Vice News, many sports stories involving the down trodden for ESPN, Hulu, Amazon Prime, MLB, NBA, a heroin to opioids doc for MSNBC, true crimes for Investigation Discovery, tech, alt. white power groups in UK/USA/AU, corporate videos like Blue Shield, MTV, Red Bull TV, BET, counter culture docs and most recently, a short doc about hair braiding in African salons in NYC with the Bronx Documentary Center.
“I aim to maximize the content I have and to add at least an extra little layer of creativity that might not have been expected. I am a collaborator through and through, with hundreds of projects in the bag and I’m fully capable of handling an entire edit unassisted.”
SteveNemsick@gmail.com / NYC / Remote / Avid / Premiere / Adobe Suite / Fios