Elana Meyers

(She/Her)

Documentary Film Editor

Brooklyn, New York US

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Elana is an film editor from NYC. She works on documentary features, series, and shorts, and has experience in archival editing. Her work has screened at DOC NYC and the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, to name a few.

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Elana Meyers is a documentary editor from New York City. In 2020, she graduated from Northwestern’s Documentary Media MFA with a short film that was granted the Carole Fielding Award and the Northwestern Graduate Research Grant. She worked as an additional editor and lead assistant editor on season 2 of the Emmy nominated show Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, a series about the food and culture in immigrant communities around the U.S. She was an editor on No One Asked You, a feature documentary about Lizz Winsted, co-founder of the Daily Show, who has been on the forefront of abortion activism since 2012. Elana has worked on projects supported by ITVS, Tribeca, and the New York Foundation of the Arts. Her work has been screened at DOC NYC, the University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space in New York, and more. Elana is drawn to political stories that are overlooked by mainstream media. Her work spotlights personal narratives to convey how societal structures intersect with human experience.

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