Stephanie Filo is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning editor best known for her work on HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show and Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 69, among many many others. Now based in Los Angeles but having grown up in Colorado and Sierra Leone, Stephanie also cuts many social impact docs, including her own PSA “End Ebola Now” which was viewed widely, spawning dance videos from celebrities to bring awareness, and helped lead to the eradication of Ebola in Sierra Leone. She’s also cut specials like Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project, following Kim K as she works to help incarcerated people be released from prison, and finally, Separated, a short doc for which she won an Emmy, about ICE deportations and their effects on families.
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On this episode we get into:
-Getting the editing bug from watching the Se7en intro titles
-Dancing's relationship to Editing
-The imposter syndrome
-Reality vs Documentary
-Keeping your career diverse and keeping diversity in Post
-Cutting from the heart (and winning awards for it)
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