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KATRINA TAYLOR is a three time Emmy award-winning, Los Angeles based film editor who is drawn to character driven stories with an emphasis on emotional accuracy, cinematic storytelling and social relevance.
Most recently, she served as a consulting editor for Sugarcane which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and won the Directing Award for US Documentary as well as 2 Critics Choice awards and nominations from the Gotham Awards, Cinema Eye and IDA. She edited 3 seasons of the hit Showtime series Couples Therapy, one in which she received an EDDIE award for Best Edited Non-Scripted Series. Her latest feature film, Helen and the Bear, premiered at HotDocs and received an award for Best Editing from Bend Film Festival and was nominated for an IDA award for Best Editing. She is currently working on a feature with Sandbox Films.
Katrina served as Consulting Editor for the Showtime documentary Cusp, which was selected for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and won the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. She was a Lab Advisor for the 2020 Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and served as an Editor on the feature documentary Feels Good Man, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker as well as an Emmy for Outstanding Research in a Documentary.
Previous roles include Editor for the feature documentary Wildland which received 2 Emmy awards including Outstanding Editing on a Documentary and opened the 2019 Fall season of PBS Independent Lens, Editor for Season 2 of the Netflix Original Series, The Confession Tapes produced by A24, Editor for Jeannette, which won the Audience Award at SF Film, Editor for Awavena (2018 Sundance Film Festival, World Economic Forum, Venice Biennale) which won an Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, Additional Editor on the Netflix Original series ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke and Editor for the feature documentary Boone ( 2016 SXSW, Berlinale). She was a Contributing Editor at the 2016 Sundance Institute Edit and Story Labs and is a founding member and served on the steering committee of The Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE). She also created and served on the board for WEEE, an Elon University alumni organization that works to mentor and support female and female identifying graduates in media and film. Katrina’s work has been supported by Impact Partners, The Sundance Institute, Catapult Film Fund, Filmmaker Fund, IFP, Film Independent, Chicken and Egg, NYSCA and The Ford Foundation.