About Us
Keeping Your Viewer Glued to the Screen
Karen Everett
Owner, New Doc Editing
Karen Everett is one of the world’s leading documentary story consultants. Under her vision, New Doc Editing has pioneered ways to tailor screenwriting principles to non-fiction films. Author of Documentary Editing, Karen taught editing for 18 years at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, named the #1 documentary program by Documentary Magazine.
What values drive us?
Love. Insight. Creativity. Excellence. Our staff of experienced editors care deeply about translating your vision into a highly watchable film. One that informs, uplifts and, in the words of Michael Moore, “entertains”! Many of our director/clients (several pictured left) have helped spur the recent movement toward inspiring, solution-oriented documentaries.
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What’s our secret sauce?
Through our story consulting and editing services, we lovingly guide filmmakers to structure compelling documentaries. We harness the power of dramatic devices, such as reversals, inciting incident, midpoint and reveals. We can adapt these elements of the three-act structure to character-driven and even essay-style documentaries. The result? Highly watchable, dramatic docs! Download our Cover Story Article or Blog Talk Radio’s interview with Karen to learn about how.
Contact Us.As a first time filmmaker, I was seeking an editing team with experience and vision. I was fortunate enough to find New Doc Editing. My experience was nothing less than wonderful. New Doc Editing is well organized and extremely professional. Karen's editors have stellar editing skills, are patient, and unbelieveably dedicated. I am very proud of the film we created. It would not have been possible without my fantastic editing team.