Ali Cotterill

I’ve edited 20+ episodes of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan on PBS. This is an excerpt from Season 4, Episode 6.

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of the literary journal Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia.

My Role: Editor + Story Editor
Client: PBS
Company: Second Peninsula
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I’ve edited 20+ episodes of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan on PBS. This is an excerpt from Season 4, Episode 2.

Mahogany L. Browne is an American poet curator, writer, organizer and educator. She is the Executive Director of JustMedia, a media literacy initiative, and the author of Chlorine Sky, REDBone, Black Girl Magic, and many other works. As of July 2021, Browne is the first-ever poet-in-residence at New York City's Lincoln Center.

My Role: Editor + Story Editor
Client: PBS
Company: Second Peninsula
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I’ve edited 20+ episodes of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan on PBS. This is an excerpt from Season 3, Episode 8.

Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change.

My Role: Editor + Story Editor

Client: PBS
Company: Second Peninsula

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I’ve edited 20+ episodes of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan on PBS. This is an excerpt from Season 3, Episode 1.

Anna Deavere Smith is an American playwright, actress, author, journalist, and educator, who os best known for her one-woman plays that examine the social issues behind current events.

My Role: Editor + Story Editor
Client: PBS
Company: Second Peninsula
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I’ve edited 20+ episodes of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan on PBS. This is an excerpt from Season 2, Episode 7.

David Byrne is a Scottish-American singer and founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer + guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.

My Role: Editor + Story Editor
Client: PBS
Company: Second Peninsula
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I’ve edited 20+ episodes of Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan on PBS. This is an excerpt from Season 2, Episode 2.

W. Kamau Bell is an American stand-up comic and host of the CNN series United Shades of America .

My Role: Editor + Story Editor

Client: PBS

Company: Second Peninsula

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Fifty years later, three women from the Class of ’72 reunite to discuss what it was like to be at Stanford Graduate School of Business when the school was 98% male.

My Role: Editor + Graphics
Client: Stanford University
Company: Second Peninsula

A clip and the release trailer for North Pole, NY, my documentary feature about a Christmas theme park and the dreamers that fight to keep it open against all odds. 

My Role: Director/DP/Editor
Festivals: IFF Boston, DOC NYC, SF DocFest, NH Docs, Free Range + 12 more
Awards: Indie Street Film Festival, Audience Award, Best Feature
Theatrical: New York State, Christmas 2018

Available on iTunes (U.S), and Vimeo On Demand (U.S./Canada/U.K./Netherlands) 

I’ve edited several campaigns for Healthline, including this portrait of Sue, a patient with COPD. This shows a whole campaign - the original “How I Cope” video, her Video Diary and an example of a cutdown for social media.

My role: Editor
Client: Healthline
Project: Edited six videos in this series, and many other series

A clip and the release trailer for United in Anger, a documentary feature about the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic.

My Role: Lead Editor, Co-Writer and Trailer Editor
Director: Jim Hubbard
Producers: Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman
Screenings: Documentary Fortnight at MoMA (World Premiere, Opening Night),
Hot Docs (Canadian Premiere) + 100 more
Theatrical Premiere: Quad Cinema, NYC
Winner: Best Documentary, Grand Jury Prize, Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Winner: Best Documentary, Pittsburgh LGBT Film Festival

Now on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play 

I edited this 4-part web series where 3 LGBT designers compete to find out who will become the next OUT Fashion Vanguard. A collaboration between OUT Magazine and Lexus.

My Role: Editor + Graphics
Client: OUT Magazine + Lexus
Company: Trinket Films
Project: Edited all four episodes in the series

I edited a series of videos that were created to give University of Pennsylvania alumni a virtual campus tour through personal stories of current students, including this portrait of Dau Jok, a Sudanese refugee who founded a non-profit to combat violence in his native country. This played at their major-donor gala and online.

My Role: Editor
Client: U Penn
Company: Real Productions
Project: Edited 10 videos in this series

Jinkx Monsoon: Drag Becomes Him provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of internationally acclaimed drag performer Jinkx Monsoon. This raw and affectionate film follows the passionate pursuits that transformed a working class boy in a struggling family to an illustrious performer on a global stage.

My Role: Trailer editor 
Director: Alex Berry
Producer: Basil Shadid

This video goes behind-the-scenes with DreamWorks to find out how they use HPE technology to power their animated films.

My Role: Editor
Client: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise + DreamWorks
Company: Real Productions
Project: Edited 3 videos in this series

Fundraising video for the non-profit The Bridge, which provides mental health and substance abuse treatment, housing, vocational training and job placement, healthcare, education and creative arts programming to the most vulnerable New Yorkers.

My Role: Editor
Client: The Bridge
Company: Real Productions
Project: Edited 7 videos in this series, the fundraising video plus six individual portraits

A fundraising video for the non-profit Education Through Music, which provides arts education for low-income youth. Played at their National Gala in NYC and online.

My role: Editor
Client: Education Through Music
Company: Real Productions

I edited a series of commercials and web profiles for Access Health CT, part of the Affordable Care Act rollout.  These are the two :60 spots.

My Role: Editor
Client: Access Health CT
Company: Real Productions
Project: Edited 12 videos in this series

A quick 30 seconds to see some of my favorite projects.