NYNEVE LAURA MINNEAR is an Emmy and Sundance award-winning, Peabody and ACE Eddie-nominated Filmmaker/Editor/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, Peabody & Critic’s Choice 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, which won 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.