Filmmakers
Mimi Wilcox
Director | Editor | Producer
Mimi Wilcox is an Emmy-nominated and ACE Eddie award-winning documentary editor & filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She honed her skills working at renowned production company Kartemquin Films, which instilled in her a deep understanding of documentary ethics and storytelling that she brings to every project she cuts.
Mimi most recently edited the 3-part Netflix docuseries ESCAPING TWIN FLAMES (2023), for which she won an American Cinema Editors Eddie award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. She co-edited Kartemquin Films' feature documentary The Dilemma of Desire (Showtime, SXSW 2020). She edited the 4-part docuseries Let Us Prey (ID/MAX 2023) and the feature documentaries With This Light (Winner, Documentary Feature Jury Award at Austin Film Festival 2022) and Head to Head (Heartland Film Festival 2020). Other credits include the award-winning short documentary MnM (CPH:DOX 2023) and How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic (Tribeca 2021), which she co-produced.
Mimi is a Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow. She is a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors and serves on the Membership Committee. She was a resident of the 2019 Points North Institute Shortform Editing Residency with Bad Hostage. Her first short film, ALPHA MARE, was a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick.
Max Asaf
Producer
Max Asaf is a Chicago-based freelance documentary filmmaker. From 2016-2019, Max served as the development coordinator at Kartemquin Films, helping raise over $5 million for the organization and its documentaries including Minding the Gap, America to Me, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Finding Yingying, The Dilemma of Desire, Represent and Edith+Eddie. Max is a proud member of the Documentary Producers Alliance.
In the fall of 2019, Max left Kartemquin to freelance full-time, serving as a producer and archival researcher, producing projects from award-winning documentary filmmakers including as the Co-Producer of The Last Strike, an upcoming feature documentary on the 1981 PATCO strike from Kindling Group, and The Last Drop, a short sci-fi fiction film exploring the overlooked signs of relationship abuse.
Max is also in early post-production on his feature directorial debut, WITHIN THE BOX, a personal documentary about the memories, stories, and familial identity contained and lost in a box of photos smuggled out of Poland eight decades ago. An early cut of Within the Box screened as a part of the Kartemquin Fall Festival and the Cannes Short Film Corner.
Nyneve Minnear
Consulting Editor
Nyneve Laura Minnear is a Documentary Film Editor, Writer and Story Consultant based in Brooklyn. Her current film Little Richard: I Am Everything for CNN Films/HBO Max, with director Lisa Cortes, premiered in Competition at Sundance 2023. She has been a fellow at the Sundance Documentary Edit Lab and two IFP Edit Labs, an advisor for the Gotham Doc Story Lab, a Steering Committee member for the newly formed Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE), and mentor with the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Diversity Program.
Recent work includes: The Art of Making It, a tapestry film that lifts the veil off of the Art World ecosystem, won an Audience Award at SXSW 2022; HBO’s The Vow, served as series as Editor and Story Consultant; 306 Hollywood, the first documentary to premiere in the NEXT section for Innovative Filmmaking at SUNDANCE 2018, winner of an Emmy, and broadcast on PBS-POV; (T)error, winner of a Sundance 2015 Special Jury Award, an EMMY for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and a Grand Jury Award at Full Frame Film Festival. Nyneve began her career in documentaries working on productions for PBS-FRONTLINE and NOVA.
Olivier and Clare Manchon
Original Score
Based in Kingston NY (from Brooklyn/Paris/Martha's Vineyard), Olivier and Clare Manchon come from a background of writing, recording and touring - sharing music with live audiences. They had the band Clare & the Reasons and Olivier headed up Orchestre de Chambre Miniature. They started scoring with a documentary about Ricky Jay about 12 years ago and haven't looked back. Offering scores and songs to films and TV such as Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, Black Box starring Vanessa Redgrave, PBS' The Life of Joseph Pulitzer, multiple songs in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starring Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal, Netflix's Emily in Paris, PBS' Leopold and Loeb, NBC's Good Girls, Once We Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, and Oscar shortlisted Hysterical Girl.
Over the years collaborations have been had with Van Dyke Parks, Sufjan Stevens, The National, Peter Dinklage, "Spring Awakening" (the Musical), "Arrested Development" (TV) and so many more. Olivier and Clare approach each film project by creating a new musical palette and world to support and enhance the story. Fixated on sound quality and orchestrations, each project proves that Olivier and Clare are willing to go the organic road of richness and warmth, never cutting corners, always with a collaborative spirit.
In Association With
The Film Fund
Contributing Producer
Tom Verdi
Director of Photography
Victor Tadashi Suarez
Motion Designer
Alosha Robinson
Sound Design and Re-Recording Engineer
Mark Bandy
Colorist
Luz Marina Zamora
Special Thanks
Dr. Allan Wade
Dan Carlson Filbey
Tim Horsburgh
Gordon Quinn
Diane Quon
Debra Zimmerman
Terrence Mickey
Ann Baker Riker Charitable Fund
