Creative Approaches to Editing with Carla Gutierrez and David Teague (FRIDA) | Presented by Adobe

Carla Gutiérrez is an Emmy and Eddie nominated documentary filmmaker. Her directorial debut FRIDA, about iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, premiered at Sundance 2024 where it won the prestigious Jonathan Oppenheim Award for Best Editing. FRIDA is an Amazon MGM Studios Original film and it's currently streaming on Prime Video.

Carla's work as an editor includes the Oscar nominated films RBG, about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and LA CORONA (HBO). She edited JULIA, about renowned chef, and television personality Julia Child (Telluride, Toronto Film Festival, CNN Films); and PRAY AWAY (Tribeca, Telluride, Netflix Original). Carla's work has received awards at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlinale, Outfest, the Critic’s Choice Awards, the National Board of Review Awards and the DuPont Columbia Awards.

Carla has been a creative adviser for the Sundance Edit Lab, and a mentor for the Firelight Producers’ Lab, The Karen Schmeer Diversity Program, and the Tribeca Film Fellows program. Carla is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and the American Cinema Editors. She received a Masters in Documentary Film from Stanford University

David Teague is an Emmy-winning documentary film editor and writer. His work as an editor includes the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning LIFE ANIMATED, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning CUTIE AND THE BOXER, the Independent Spirit-nominated THE DEPARTURE, the Emmy-nominated E-TEAM, and the Oscar-winning FREEHELD. He wrote and produced STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING, shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for his work on the film. He was the supervising editor for the Sundance-winning FRIDA and the Emmy-nominated PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS for which he received a Cinema Eye Editing Award. As a consulting editor, he worked on KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE, CRIP CAMP, CAMERAPERSON, WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, and MAYOR. He wrote the fiction film CASSANDRO with director Roger Ross Williams, starring Gael García Bernal, which premiered at Sundance 2023. David has served as an editing mentor with IFP/Gotham, Firelight, Tribeca, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Catapult True/False Rough Cut Retreat, and the Sundance Institute.

Erica Elson is a Producer, Writer and Educator based in the mountains outside Los Angeles. Her short film, WING NIGHT, premiered at Method Fest in Los Angeles. She is the co-author of the book THE AWKWARD HUMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE and co-hosted a podcast by the same name on the 5by5 network for five years. Elson's articles have been published by HuffPost, Lifehacker, and Reader's Digest. Prior to working in education, she worked in television development and writers’ rooms such as VH1’s HINDSIGHT, where she had the chance to write for the spinoff web series PLANET SEBASTIAN.

Elson joined the Sundance Collab team in October 2021 and produces courses, Master Classes, and events in the areas of screenwriting, television writing, directing, producing, and documentary filmmaking. She has moderated conversations with Sofia Coppola, Richard Linklater, Alexander Payne, and Susannah Grant, among others.

Prior to Sundance, Elson was the Thesis Production Supervisor at the American Film Institute for five years. She oversaw several award-winning graduate thesis films, notably the 2021 BAFTA student film winner APART, TOGETHER and the 2023 Sundance Film Festival short WE WERE MEANT TO. While at AFI, Elson developed a passion for sustainable production and created the Green Film School Alliance, which includes forty schools on four continents. She holds a BA in Communication and Film Studies from Concordia University and an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute.