ADE’s Inclusion and Access Committee has begun to compile a comprehensive list of documentary editing fellowships and labs.
If you are a doc editor seeking to apply to a lab with a project you’re working on, or to an editing mentorship or fellowship, we hope you find these links useful.


FELLOWSHIPS FOR EDITORS

Karen Schmeer Film Editor Fellowship:
Diversity in the Edit Room
How to Apply:  Invitation

Karen Schmeer Emerging Editor Fellowship
How to Apply:  Invitation

Sundance Documentary and Edit Lab
How to Apply:  Invitation

Arts2Work Apprentice Program

Crip Camp + Adobe Fellowship

Some are invitation only but we encourage people to send inquiries.


ROUGH CUT LABS

DCTV Docu WIP Lab
Rough Cut Lab Open to Directors and/or Editors of the projects.
How to Apply:  Check their website for application deadlines (Usually the deadlines is in August/ September)

Sundance Edit Lab
Visions Du Reel Rough Cut Labs
Docs in Progress (DC)
T/F Rough Cut Retreat
Gotham Doc Lab
Kartemquin Rough Cut Lab
If/Then Points North

OTHER GROUPS TO LOOK INTO

Handy Foundation
Creative Futures
Union Docs Summer Documentary Lab
Firelight Media
BAVC
Brown Girls Doc Mafia
A-Doc
NALIP
The D-Word