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Emir Lewis

NY

Racial/Cultural Identities

African American/Black

Emir

Lewis

Editor
SLAM (1998)
Editor
Rapture (2018)
Supervising Story Producer
Driving While Black (2020)
Producer / Editor

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), PBSʼ​Two 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.