Editor Maya Mumma, ACE on building tension in "O.J.: Made in America." Recorded at "Sight, Sound & Story" on June 10, 2017.
Maya Mumma, ACE, began her career in the edit room of the Academy Award nominated documentary "Restrepo." The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and received a News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Editing. Most recently, she was an editor on the Academy Award winning 7.5 hour documentary "O.J.: Made in America" for which she was honored with the Best Editing award from the LA Film Critics Association and the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary Feature.
She has also edited the Emmy nominated films "Which Way Is the Front Line From Here: The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington" (HBO) and "Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley" (HBO), the Peabody Award winning "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown" (HBO), and "A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers" (TIFF 2015, PBS 2018).
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