
Having built an exceptional editing career over the years, Emirʼs long list of editing credits span feature films, documentaries & tv series. Beginning with Slam (1998) which won both the prestigious Sundance film festival Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes film festival Camera DʼOr . In addition, several other of the documentaries edited by Emir received high honors such as HBOʼs O.J. – A Story in Black & White (2003 Emmy winner), PBSʼTwo Towns of Jasper (2003 DuPont and Peabody Awards). He has also parlayed his editorial experience into a producer/director role for WNET, garnering Emmy nominations for both In the Footsteps of Marco Polo & Pioneers of THIRTEEN, a four part series chronicling the history of Public Television in New York & a Supervising Story Producer role in the acclaimed Netflix Docu Series RAPTURE which chronicled the lives and artistic growth of 8 of Hip Hop’s hottest artists. Currently, he is finishing editing & producing Driving While Black: Race Space & Mobility in America with the acclaimed historical documentarian Ric Burns for national release in the fall on PBS. In the future, Emir plans to continue editing, producing and directing for a diverse range of media projects, but is also very happy teaching the next generation of students the fine art of editorial storytelling at both N.Y.U. Tisch School of the Arts.