Erin Casper is being honored as a Filmshop Luminary for her incredible work as a documentary editor. Most recently, she edited the Academy-Award nominated Fire of Love, about a couple of internationally renowned volcanologists whose passion for volcanoes is matched only by their love for each other.
Following this, Erin will provide project-specific guidance to three emerging documentarians- Everette Hamlette, Rebecca Israel and Theresa Loong- who are a part of Filmshop Studio.
Panelist Bio
Erin Casper is an Emmy-nominated documentary editor whose award-winning films have screened at Sundance, New York Film Festival, Tribeca, True/False, Visions du Réel; distributed in movie theaters internationally, and broadcast on HBO, Showtime, PBS, The New York Times, Field of Vision, and Vanity Fair. Her selected editing credits include Risk, directed by Laura Poitras (Neon, Showtime); American Promise (Sundance Special Jury Award, Emmy nominee); Roll Red Roll (Netflix, POV), and The Last Season (Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award nominee). Outside of her work as an editor, Erin is a frequent panelist and mentor for Sundance, Tribeca, IFP, and True/False filmmaking labs, and is a 2011 Fellow and board member of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Filmshop is a nonprofit collective of independent filmmakers committed to developing new work through peer support and collaboration. Chapters in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Los Angeles and New Orleans meet weekly to workshop projects, offer constructive critique, and incubate new ideas.