NYNEVE LAURA MINNEAR is an Emmy and Sundance Award winning, ACE Eddie Nominated Film Editor and Writer known for inventive and original approaches to non-fiction and hybrid filmmaking. Her widely acclaimed feature documentary work has premiered at three Sundance Festivals, twice in competition and twice opening night. Her latest film as Lead Editor, LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING (CNNFilms/HBO Max/Magnolia) premiered Opening Night at SUNDANCE 2023 in U.S. Competition and released theatrically nationwide in April 2023 - highlights include an ACE Eddie Nomination for Best Theatrical Doc, Grammy nomination for Best Music Film, Critic’s Choice Award Nomination, Bafta Shortlist, and Variety’s and Guardian’s “Best Movies of 2023”; CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG (Additional Editor) premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2023; Nyneve was Editor and Writer of the Emmy winning 306 HOLLYWOOD, a hybrid documentary which was the first doc invited to the heretofore all fiction NEXT section for Innovative Filmmaking at SUNDANCE 2018, premiering Opening Night; Additional career highlights include editing and story consulting on HBO’s THE VOW Seasons I and II; Editor of THE ART OF MAKING IT, winner of a SXSW 2022 Audience Award; Editor of (T)ERROR, winner of a SUNDANCE 2015 Special Jury Award, EMMY for Outstanding Investigative Documentary, Grand Jury Award at Full Frame Film Festival, IDA Award; GIRL WITH BLACK BALLOONS, Editor, Writer, Producer), winner of a Grand Jury Prize at DOCNYC and chosen "Best of Fest" at its premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Nyneve was an editor/producer for DAN RATHER REPORTS for over three years where her international news magazine segments won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, multiple awards from the Newswomen's Club of NY and for which she was named one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s eNews in 2011.
She has been a fellow at the Sundance Documentary Edit Lab and two IFP Edit Labs, was an advisor for the Gotham Doc Story Lab, and mentor with the year-long Karen Schmeer Film Editing Diversity Program. She loves participating on panels (e.g. DocNYC), leading workshops (e.g. Union Docs), and being a guest lecturer for film classes (e.g. Mass Art, UNCSA, Hofstra). Nyneve is an active advocate for Editors on the national level, having helped create the Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE) and sat on its first Steering Committee.
Based in Brooklyn, Nyneve holds a B.S. in Zoology. Before becoming an editor, she planned to be an evolutionary biologist, was a painter, and a dancer and percussionist in Cuban, Brazilian and African troupes. When not making films, she is trying to learn how to grow vegetables on a small Catskills farm, and directs and runs a not-for-profit art and music space, “Salon on Kingston”, in Crown Heights, BK.
Feature Documentaries —
Little Richard - I Am Everything
2023 Lead Editor, 98 mins
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION, OPENING NIGHT SUNDANCE 2023. For CNN Films/HBO Max. Magnolia nationwide theatrical release. Grammy nominated for Best Film.
The Art of Making It
2021 Editor, 93 mins
SXSW 2022 AUDIENCE AWARD in “Festival Favorites” section. Sold Out Premiere screenings at Hamptons FF and DocNYC. Continuing its 2022 festival run at Miami FF, Big Sky, Sebastopol, Cleveland International, Santa Fe, Sedona, Tucson, and others…
He Dreams of Giants
2019 Editor 85 mins
DOCNYC, WNNER RAINDANCE Best UK Feature. For 30 years, Terry Gilliam struggled to make a screen adaptation of Don Quixote, including an abandoned attempt chronicled in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha. Gilliam never gave up and neither did the documentarians. HE DREAMS OF GIANTS represents the culmination of all their efforts in an epic and poignant portrait. We watch Gilliam bring all his talent, obsession and humor to confronting self-doubt, the pressure to compromise and the need to realize a long-held dream.
306 Hollywood
2018 Editor, Writer, 86 mins
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2018 First Documentary to premiere in the NEXT Section for Innovative filmmaking. Winner of Audience Award for Best Pitch at Hot Docs Forum 2017. Featured project in the IFP Documentary Lab 2016, IFP Film Week 2016. Oscar winning producer Laokoon Filmgroup.
(T)error
2015 Editor 84 mins
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE at SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2015. GRAND JURY PRIZE at Full Frame Film Festival. Broadcast Premiere on Independent Lens 2016 for which it won an EMMY. Nominated for Best Documentary at Independent Spirit Awards. CPH:DOX F:ACT Award (special mention). Best Documentary at Dallas Video Fest. IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award. Paste Magazine's 2nd Best Documentary of the Year 2015. Newsweek declared it "One of the best documentaries of 2015". Sundance Edit Lab 2014, IFP Edit Lab 2014.
Girl With Black Balloons
2010 Editor, Co-Writer, Co-Producer, 59 mins
Winner of GRAND JURY PRIZE at DOCNYC 2011. World Premiere at Edinburgh Film Festival in which it was selected for "Best of Fest" additional screenings. Opening night film at IFC Stranger Than Fiction Series, NY, NY. Dallas Video Fest Special screening. Official Selection at Carnegie Melon International Film Festival.
The LuLu Sessions
2011 Editor, Co-Writer, Co-Producer, 84 mins
Winner of BEST DOCUMENTARY & Emerging Director Awards at DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival. Winner of Emerging Director Award at Asian American International Film Festival, NYC. Winner Audience Award for Best Documentary at Chicago LGBT Film Festival. Winner of Special Jury Award at San Diego Asian Film Festival. Second Place Audience Award at Toronto LGBT Film Festival. Opening Night film at Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Nominated for Grand Jury Awards at LA Asian Pacific and Boston LGBT Film Festivals. Nominated for Best Documentary Award at Mix Copenhagen Film Festival. Screenings around the world including Taipei, Paris, Jakarta, and Auckland. Broadcast Premiere on PBS-America ReFramed.
The Art of Un-War
2022 Supervising Editor 62 mins
SPECIAL JURY AWARD Sebastopol Film Festival 2022. Official Selection at Le Fifa-Montreal, Washington DC FF. Chronicles the life and political work of Polish born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko a pioneer of large scale projection art. Wodiczko’s lifelong investigation of monuments, war and trauma are explored through his urban art interventions created over the past fifty years.
Omara
2021 Additional Editor 79 mins
DOCNYC, Miami FF. At the age of 89, Cuba's national treasure, Afro-Cuban music icon Omara Portuondo defies age-ist expectations and tours the world. In the process, the songs she sings convey the feelings and the experiences that defined her life as a trailblazer who has inspired generations of women of color to follow in her footsteps.
Farmer/Veteran
2016 Editor 79 mins
Broadcast premiere on PBS-INDEPENDENT LENS 2017. Winner of BEST DOCUMENTARY Awards at Brooklyn Film Festival and Charlotte Film Festival. Southern Stories Jury Prize from Hot Springs Film Festival. Southern Documentary Jury Prize from Macon Film Festival. Jury Finalist at the New Orleans Film Festival. Official Selection of Cucalorus and Big Sky Film Festivals. ITVS funded.
The Illusionists
2016 Consulting Editor, Additional Writer, 85 mins
Silicon Valley Tour included screenings and talks at UC Berkeley, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple. Screenings and panel discussions at Athena Film Festival, Art Night Venezia and Women of the World Conference, London. University Tour included screenings at Cornell, University of Chicago and Northwestern. Press coverage highlights in New York Magazine, Teen Vogue, Vogue Italia, Upworthy, and Jezebel. Selected Indiewire "Project of the Day".
For You Were Once Strangers
2015 Editor, Writer, 85 mins
Winner of BEST DOCUMENTARY at Chelsea Film Festival 2015. Official Selection at Nice International Film Festival, France. Official Selection at Las Cruces International Film Festival. Nominee for Best International Feature at Global Visions Film Festival. Kino and Vino Series, Bow Tie Cinemas, Chelsea, NY.
Tibet in Song
2009 Additional Editor, 85 mins
Sundance Film Festival 2009. Cinema for Peace International Human Rights Award. Cine Golden Eagle Award.
BLAST!
2008 Co-Editor, 74 mins
World Premiere at Hot Docs. Official Selection at Sheffield Film Festival, Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Florida, Big Sky, Hawaii, and Thessoloniki Film Festivals. BEST DOCUMENTARY at Vedere La Scienza Festival, Italy. Featured on The Colbert Report and NPR Science Friday. International broadcast on BBC Storyville, Discovery Canada, PBS affiliates, NHK-Japan, VPRO-Netherlands, DR-Denmark and SVT2-Sweden. Special screening for NASA.
Other Work...
Edit & Story Consultant —
‘ELDER’S CORNER” Directed by Siji Awoyinka 2020, 97 mins
“ITZHAK” Directed by Allison Chernick 2017, 82 mins
“THE WORST THING” Directed by Desireena Almoradie 2018, 84 mins
“MY KASHMIR” Directed by Madhuri Mohindar, Vaishali Sinha 2013, 49 mins
Contact
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