About

Joy E. Reed (they/them) brings over a decade of experience as an associate editor (HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, ERNIE & JOE News & Documentary Emmy® for Outstanding Editing 2020) and animator (32 PILLS: MY SISTER’S SUICIDE), and is a Karen Schmeer Editing Fellow. They have been on the editing team of a number of Audience Award winners at Sundance, including BUCK (2011) and THIS IS HOME (2018). Joy’s Work has been broadcast on PBS, HBO, and played at festivals worldwide. They are drawn to character-driven, humanizing documentaries that champion the outsider in order to create empathy from the wider world.

Joy got their first job at 14, hauling cut trees for a disabled neighbor who made wreaths at Christmastime, the same year they earned $100 (a fortune in the 80s!) for writing the code to a simple computer program for printing form letters. They have been alternating working with their back and their brain ever since. When not in the edit room, they can be found working in the fields at the Poughkeepsie Farm Project in exchange for vegetables.