Ken Schneider (filmmaker) explained

Ken Schneider, ACE is a director, producer, and editor for PatchWorks Films, a production company in San Francisco. He has traveled and made films in Cuba for many years alongside wife and film collaborator, Marcia Jarmel. They co-directed Los Hermanos/The Brothers, which tells the story of virtuoso Afro-Cuban brothers living on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm, one in New York, the other in Havana.^[1] The film follows their parallel lives and poignant reunion through their momentous first performances together after so long apart.  

Outside of his directorial work for PatchWorks Films, Schneider works as a freelance editor and is a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE).^{[2] [3]} He has edited over 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime, and Al Jazeera. The subjects range from art and literature to war and peace, immigration, disability and social justice. A notable editing credit is on the Oscar-nominated, Regret to Inform, which the New York Times described as “unforgettable … exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.”^[4] Regret to Inform was a Peabody Awards winner, recipient of the International Documentary Association Award for most distinctive use of archival footage, and a national Emmy Awards nominee.^[5]  

Schneider has also consulted on dozens of documentaries and lectured at San Francisco City College, San Francisco Art Institute, Chapman University, Harvard University, and New York University.^{[6] [7]}

Filmography (as editor)

War Peace and Human Rights

• Regret to Inform | PBS’ POV Special (1998, documentary)
• Geographies of Kinship | PBS’ America Reframed (2019, documentary)
• The Judge | PBS’ Independent Lens (2017, documentary)^[8]
• Then They Came For Us (2017, documentary)^[9]
• Mankiller | PBS (2017, documentary)
• El Poeta | PBS’ Voces (2015, documentary)
• La Principita de los Andes (The Little Princess of the Andes) | Al Jazeera’s Witness (2015, documentary)
• | HBO (2013, documentary)
• Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (2013, documentary)
• Into the Current (2011, documentary)
• Have You Heard from Johannesburg? | PBS, BBC, South Africa TV (2010, documentary series)
• Bolinao 52 | PBS (2008, documentary)
• The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It | PBS Special (2000, documentary)
• Iwo Jima: Memories in Sand | PBS Special (2000, documentary)

Art & Artists

• Los Hermanos/The Brothers | PBS (2021, documentary)^[10]
• Orozco: Man of Fire | PBS’ American Masters (2007, documentary)
• Ralph Ellison: An American Journey | PBS’ American Masters (2002, documentary)
• In Camera: Naive Visual Effects; The Art of Eiko Ishioka; Method and Madness: Visualizing Dracula (2007, documentary)

Contemporary Social Issues

• Beyond the Opposite Sex | Showtime Network (2018, documentary)
• In Football We Trust | PBS (2017, documentary)^[11]
• Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story | PBS’ America Reframed (2016, documentary)
• Havana Curveball (2014, documentary)
• (2014, documentary)
• My Favorite Neoconservative (2014, documentary)
• A Fierce Green Fire | American Masters, PBS (2012, documentary)^[12]
• Come Hell or High Water | PBS World (2012, documentary)
• Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice | PBS (2010, documentary)
• Speaking in Tongues | PBS (2008, documentary)
• Tale of Two Cities | PBS (2004, documentary)
• Hold Your Breath | PBS  (2004, documentary)
• Freedom Machines | PBS’ POV (2003, documentary)
• | PBS Special (2001, documentary)
• Born in the U.S.A. | PBS’ Independent Lens (2000, documentary)
• Lieweila | PBS (1997, documentary)
• Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West | PBS Special (1997, documentary series)
• The Return of Sarah's Daughters | PBS (1997, documentary)
• Making Peace | PBS (1996, documentary series)
• School Colors | PBS Frontline Special (1994, documentary)

Filmography (as director)

• Los Hermanos/The Brothers | PBS (2021, documentary)^[13]
• It's Only Rock n' Roll (2019, documentary short)
• And Then They Came for Us (2017, documentary)
• The Wheel of Life (2016, documentary short)
• Havana Curveball (2014, documentary)
• Open the Classroom Door (2013, documentary short)
• Speaking in Tongues | PBS (2008, documentary)
• Born in the U.S.A. | PBS’ Independent Lens (2000, documentary)

External links

• • Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Huver . Scott . 2021-12-15 . 'Los Hermanos/The Brothers' Documentary Tells the Story of a Musical Reunion . 2022-09-19 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.
2. Web site: 2022-12-16 . ACE Holiday Slideshow 2022 . 2023-01-02 . American Cinema Editors.
3. 2022 . Welcome New ACE Members . Cinema Editor Magazine . 72 . 10 . EditFest.
4. Web site: 'Regret to Inform': Odyssey of Loss and War in a Land of Languid Beauty . 2022-09-19 . The New York Times.
5. Web site: Ken Schneider . 2022-09-19 . KQED . en-us.
6. Web site: 2021-05-08 . Release of Award-winning Documentary Feature Los Hermanos/The Brothers . 2022-09-19 . Latin Jazz Network . en-US.
7. Web site: Ken Schneider . tisch.nyu.edu . 2022-10-30 . en.
8. Web site: Ken Schneider . https://web.archive.org/web/20181007073715/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bc282cd6e . dead . October 7, 2018 . 2022-09-19 . BFI . en.
9. Web site: UNAFF 2017: Awards . 2022-09-19 . www.unaff.org.
10. Web site: AIFF 2021 Award Winners . 2022-09-19 . Ashland Independent Film Festival . en.
11. Kauvaka . Lea Lani Kinikini . 2016 . In Football We Trust . Contemporary Pacific . Honolulu . 28 . 2 . 526–529 . 10.1353/cp.2016.0034 . 163433392 . . ProQuest.
12. Web site: Kitchell . Mark . 2014-03-25 . A Fierce Green Fire ~ How to Make a Film on the Environment American Masters PBS . 2023-03-18 . American Masters . en-US.
13. Web site: Huver . Scott . 2021-12-15 . 'Los Hermanos/The Brothers' Documentary Tells the Story of a Musical Reunion . 2023-03-18 . The Hollywood Reporter . en-US.