Join Sundance Collab and BIPOC Doc Editors for an engaging conversation with the edit team of Spermworld, the 2024 documentary feature directed by Lance Oppenheim (Ren Faire, Some Kind of Heaven).
This discussion features the film’s editor and co-writer Daniel Garber, ACE, and co-editor Emily Yue. Together, they’ll delve into the editing process of Spermworld, which premiered at the True/False Film Fest before its March 2024 release on FX. The film takes an eye-opening look at the subculture of men who donate sperm outside the traditional sperm bank system, including individuals who have fathered more than 100 children. Spermworld earned a nomination for Best Nonfiction Film for Broadcast at the 2025 Cinema Eye Honors.
Garber and Yue previously collaborated on the 2023 feature How to Blow Up a Pipeline, on which Garber served as editor and Yue as assistant editor. Garber also won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing for his work on the film, and he has previously edited such titles as Daniel Goldhaber’s Cam and Garrett Bradley’s docuseries Naomi Osaka.
This event is part of the “Inside the Edit with BIPOC Doc Editors” series, a program hosted by Sundance Collab in collaboration with BIPOC Doc Editors. Don’t miss this chance to explore the craft of documentary editing with industry leaders.
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Daniel Garber is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York, with work spanning documentary, fiction, and experimental practices. Primarily employed as an editor, he recently won Best Editing at the Film Independent Spirit Awards for his work on Daniel Goldhaber’s eco-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Previous narrative work includes Sarah Adina Smith’s improvised comedy The Drop (2022), produced by the Duplass brothers, and CAM (2018), Daniel Goldhaber’s first feature. His documentary credits include Lance Oppenheim’s Spermworld, out now on Hulu, as well as Oppenheim’s debut Some Kind of Heaven (2020); Garrett Bradley’s Naomi Osaka (2021) series for Netflix; and The Reagan Show (dir. Sierra Pettengill & Pacho Velez, 2017), which garnered a Cinema Eye Honors nomination for editing. Daniel’s work has screened at festivals including Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, Fantasia Fest, Rotterdam, Locarno, Visions du réel, AFI Fest, BFI London, MoMA Doc Fortnight, and True/False. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, included in DOC NYC’S 40 Under 40 list, and selected for Berlinale Talents.
more...Emily Yue is a filmmaker from the New England area. Emily works mostly as an emerging editor on documentary and narrative films and is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Alliance of Documentary Editors, and the Editors Guild. They are currently editing an upcoming feature documentary, directing their first feature documentary, are a 2024 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow, and recently were a 2023 Sundance Contributing Editor Fellow. Some of Emily's recent post-production credits include Spermworld (TrueFalse/FX-Hulu), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (TIFF/ NEON), and The Rescue (TIFF/NatGeo).
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Soheil Rezayazdi is a Digital Course & Event Producer at the Sundance Institute, where he produces multi-session courses, master classes, filmmaker Q&As, and other digital programs for Sundance Collab. Prior to Sundance, Soheil served as the Nonfiction Programs Manager at the Gotham Film & Media Institute. He oversaw the Gotham’s core documentary programs: the Documentary Feature Lab, the Spotlight on Documentaries project market, and the Documentary Development Initiative in partnership with HBO Documentary Films. Soheil has worked with emerging filmmakers since 2015, when he began a seven-year tenure at the Columbia University MFA Film Program. At Columbia he managed the Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF), the Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Film Noir Festival, and the Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker Series. Soheil is also a freelance writer on film and pop culture with articles in Indiewire, McSweeney’s, Vice, Filmmaker Magazine, Documentary Magazine, Paper, Paste, and elsewhere. He has also served as an external reviewer for artist programs operated by Creative Capital, Kartemquin Pictures, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and the International Documentary Association. A native of Iran, he holds an MA in journalism and a BA in film studies from the University of Iowa.
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