Navigating the Director/Editor Relationship

Today’s excerpt from Editing the Character-Driven Documentary shows you how to navigate the director/editor relationship.

Documentaries are only as good as the relationships that allow them to be made, according to Nancy Kates, who directed the HBO biography Regarding Susan Sontag.

This is usually thought of in terms of one’s relationships with interviewees, but it’s just as true among members of one’s film team, especially one’s editor. Watch my popular seminar on this topic (taught live at the San Francisco Film Society) on You Tube, or download here.