“Steve’s got a great eye, timing and soul! We are all impressed.”
- Bill Weir, CNN Host
“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.”
- Michael Kamber, Director Bronx Documentary Center
EDITOR WORK
ABOUT THE EDITING
TITLETOWN: Omaha Productions / ESPN / NFL Films series about the Green Bay Packers directed by 8 X Emmy Winning Director Trent Cooper. Eight episodes with new interviews with Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre. I cut a little of everything on a couple episodes - cold open, ending, games, blending era’s together, etc. Out later in ‘26!
Raise The Flags: 50 Years of Buccaneers Football on Amazon Prime was a blast to edit. Fortunate to work with such an amazing team, great content and the direction of Bucs ownership and Director Trent Cooper to lead with creativity and not history made this one of the best jobs. I edited scenes across most episodes and acted as a finishing editor as well. My favorite scene is about Tom Brady cussing out his teammate in the huddle - I cut it against Wagner’s Ride of the Valkries. Its so entertaining. Check it out.
Ugo: An Artist at War is my third documentary feature as a director/editor/filmmaker. The four year project began when I knocked on my neighbors door to organize a block party. I quickly became captivated by her family’s history and began filming weeks later. It premiered at the San Diego International FF and recently won the Spirit of PBS Award at the GI FF in San Diego.
For Algiers America (HULU) / Andscape Media Icut 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 I 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.
On Coach Prime Amazon Prime / SMAC Entertainment / Executive Producer & Showrunner Michael Gleaton tasked me with the games and montages and all that comes with it. And 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 my 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 during 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, I displayed my skill at weaving an essay narrative 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.
With the Vice News film Essential Lives; The Bronx Battles Covid I jumped on board the proverbial sinking ship with life jackets for all. The director had fired an editor and was left with no coherent story. I took control and wrestled the film into submission with an open ear and mind to all input from the director.
For Red Bull’s culture series Way Past Midnight, I 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, I’ve had 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, a short doc about hair braiding in African salons in NYC with the Bronx Documentary Center, NFL Films and others.
