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Karen Everett(II)

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Karen Everett is one of the world's leading documentary Story Consultants, as well as an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Founder of New Doc Editing, she has helped hundreds of filmmakers structure documentaries for PBS, HBO, Sundance, and other top venues.

Her business also provides directors with talented documentary editors.

Karen taught documentary editing for 18 years at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, named the #1-ranked documentary program in America by "Documentary Magazine".

Author of the book "Documentary Editing," she has directed and produced six of her own documentaries, including the award-winning PBS biography "I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs" and "American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx Hubbard".

Guiding filmmakers to create solution-oriented documentaries that better the human condition, she was also the story consultant on the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary "50 Children" and the Emmy-nominated series "The Future Starts Here". Karen consulted on "The Russian Woodpecker", which won the Grand Jury World Cinema Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Karen received her Master's in Journalism at UC Berkeley and her BA from Smith College, graduating magna cum laude. See her IMDb page. Email at karen at newdocediting dot com.
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    Barbara Marx Hubbard in American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx Hubbard
    American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx Hubbard
    • Writer
      I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996)
      I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs
      7.6
      • Director
      • 1996
      Framing Lesbian Fashion (1992)
      Framing Lesbian Fashion
      6.9
      • Director
      • 1992
      El Susto (2019)
      El Susto
      8.7
      • Writer
      • 2019

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      • Light Up (2024)
        Light Up
        • story consultant
        • 2024
      • Alyssa Milano, Angela Wiliams, Kendra Geronimo, Rachel Fischer, Jeezy, Jeannie Mai, and Sadhvi Siddhali Shree in Surviving Sex Trafficking (2021)
        Surviving Sex Trafficking
        7.4
        • story editor
        • 2021
      • Remember (2019)
        Remember
        • director
        • 2019
      • Displaced (2018)
        Displaced
        • story consultant
        • 2018
      • From India with Love (2017)
        From India with Love
        8.0
        • technical advisor
        • 2017
      • Voices of Grief, Honoring the Sacred Journey (2016)
        Voices of Grief, Honoring the Sacred Journey
        Short
        • story editor
        • 2016
      • Crossing Bhutan (2016)
        Crossing Bhutan
        7.6
        • story editor
        • 2016
      • Tyrus (2015)
        Tyrus
        8.4
        • story editor
        • 2015
      • The Future Starts Here
        TV Series
        • story editor
        • 2013–2014
      • Idea Porn (2013)
        Idea Porn
        Short
        • story editor
        • 2013
      • Why We Love Robots (2013)
        Why We Love Robots
        Video
        • story editor
        • 2013
      • Tech Etiquette (2013)
        Tech Etiquette
        Short
        • story editor
        • 2013
      • Technology Shabbats (2013)
        Technology Shabbats
        Short
        • story editor
        • 2013
      • A Case for Optimism (2013)
        A Case for Optimism
        Short
        • story editor
        • 2013
      • Participatory Revolution (2013)
        Participatory Revolution
        Short
        • story editor
        • 2013

      Writer



      • Rohna Classified (2025)
        Rohna Classified
        • story consultant
        • 2025
      • Below the Belt (2023)
        Below the Belt
        8.6
        • Story Consultant
        • 2023
      • We Want the Airwaves (2022)
        We Want the Airwaves
        9.3
        • story consultant
        • 2022
      • 10 Questions for Henry Ford (2021)
        10 Questions for Henry Ford
        • story editor
        • 2021
      • The Co-op Wars (2021)
        The Co-op Wars
        6.7
        • story editor
        • 2021
      • Roadtrip Nation (2004)
        Roadtrip Nation
        7.5
        TV Series
        • story consultant
        • 2020
      • El Susto (2019)
        El Susto
        8.7
        • story editor
        • 2019
      • Big Fur (2019)
        Big Fur
        6.6
        • story consultant
        • 2019
      • Finding Home: A Foster Youth Story (2018)
        Finding Home: A Foster Youth Story
        TV Movie
        • story editor
        • 2018
      • Crossing Bhutan (2016)
        Crossing Bhutan
        7.6
        • story
        • 2016
      • The Photosynthesis of Social Media
        Short
        • story
        • 2014
      • Punk Rock Diplomacy
        Short
        • story
        • 2014
      • ParenTechnology
        Short
        • story
        • 2014
      • The Sum Total of Our Memory: Facing Alzheimer's Together (2014)
        The Sum Total of Our Memory: Facing Alzheimer's Together
        • story
        • 2014
      • 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus (2013)
        50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
        7.6
        • story editor
        • 2013

      Editorial Department



      • The Boys in Red Hats (2021)
        The Boys in Red Hats
        5.1
        • story consultant
        • 2021
      • Determined (2020)
        Determined
        • development consulting editor
        • 2020
      • Baba Babee Skazala: Grandmother Told Grandmother (2018)
        Baba Babee Skazala: Grandmother Told Grandmother
        • story editor
        • 2018
      • From India with Love (2017)
        From India with Love
        8.0
        • story editor
        • 2017
      • A Dangerous Idea (2016)
        A Dangerous Idea
        6.9
        • editing consultant
        • 2016
      • Crossing Bhutan (2016)
        Crossing Bhutan
        7.6
        • story editor
        • 2016
      • Havana Curveball (2014)
        Havana Curveball
        7.3
        • story consultant
        • 2014
      • The Trouble with TQ (2014)
        The Trouble with TQ
        • story editor
        • 2014
      • Tiffany Shlain in Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology (2011)
        Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology
        5.7
        • story consultant
        • 2011
      • 5 Nights, 5 Steaks
        Short
        • on-line editor
        • 2001
      • Music for Mushrooms
        Music for Mushrooms
        • Story Consultation

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