Katie Spear is a detail-oriented video editor with experience across narrative, branded, and unscripted content. Skilled in post-production workflows, story development, and high-volume social deliverables. Work featured at Sundance, DOC NYC, and on Prime Video.…

Katie Spear

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Katie Spear is a detail-oriented video editor with experience across narrative, branded, and unscripted content. Skilled in post-production workflows, story development, and high-volume social deliverables. Work featured at Sundance, DOC NYC, and on Prime Video.…

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Katie Spear is a detail-oriented video editor with experience across narrative, branded, and unscripted content. Skilled in post-production workflows, story development, and high-volume social deliverables. Work featured at Sundance, DOC NYC, and on Prime Video.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Video Editor at Shanken Creative Group (Clients: Pernod Ricard, Duckhorn Vineyards)
January 1, 2026 - January 1, 2026
Edited and color-graded brand-aligned content for luxury wine and spirits brands.
Video Editor at Juice House (Vertical Social Campaign)
January 1, 2026 - January 1, 2026
Ingested 1TB of footage, created proxies, organized media, and built a Premiere project. Created stringouts, pulled selects, edited 3 versions of each video, and color-graded 35+ deliverables. Managed Frame.io asset organization and review cycles, incorporating director feedback.
Assistant Editor at Sidequest (Narrative Short, Greenpoint Film Festival) — Family Pictures
January 1, 2025 - January 1, 2025
Managed ingest, syncing, proxy workflows, file management, and project organization for 2TB of footage. Built stringouts and assembled a rough cut with temporary sound design and music.
Assistant Editor / Editor at The Making of Beast Games (Unscripted Series, Prime Video) — You Might Studios
January 1, 2025 - January 1, 2025
Organized media and grouped multi-cam footage. Pulled selects from up to 60 hours of verité footage per episode and refined selects into hour-long rough cuts using producer notes and episode outlines. Collaborated with producers and post teams remotely using Lucid Link shared storage and Adobe Premiere Productions.
Director's Assistant at Jacqueline Christie
December 27, 2024 - January 27, 2025
Booked travel, organized email list, and prepped press release for narrative feature, Magic Hour (dir. Jacqueline Christie).
Assistant Editor at Hayley Ulmer and Sam McCoy
March 1, 2024 - November 1, 2024
Assistant Editor on projects for Hayley Ulmer and Sam McCoy; responsibilities included coordinating editing workflow and asset organization.
Writer/Director/Producer at Jade the Icon
January 31, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Wrote, directed, produced, and edited comedy short film, Jade the Icon, which premiered at the Big Apple Film Festival.
Assistant Editor at Blood Friends (Short Documentary, DOC NYC) — Hayley Ulmer & Sam McCoy
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2024
Managed media ingest, sync, multicam grouping, stringouts, project organization, proxy creation, interview transcripts, and editorial support across 30+ hours of interviews and verité footage. Screened, logged, pulled selects, and organized footage into stringouts. Tracked remaining location/content/storage space across multiple hard drives.
Assistant Editor at Sunfish Pictures LLC
September 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Assistant Editor on the feature film Sunfish (dir. Sierra Falconer); Grand Jury Prize nominee at Sundance Film Festival. Manually synced script, organized digital assets, contributed to sound design, and created end credits.
Assistant Editor at Sunfish (Narrative Feature, Sundance Film Festival) — Sunfish Pictures LLC
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2023
Organized digital assets, manually synced script materials, assisted with sound design, and created end credits.
Editor at Jade the Icon (Narrative Short, Big Apple Film Festival) — Dir. Katie Spear
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Ingested and organized media, created proxies, managed turnovers for color grade and sound mix, re-confirmed and mastered the final cut, and submitted DCP and other festival deliverables.
Post Production Coordinator at Creator Up
August 1, 2021 - February 1, 2023
Reviewed videos for QC and client branding guidelines. Managed schedules and communications between team members throughout the post-finishing process.
Post-Production Coordinator at CreatorUp — Los Angeles, CA
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
Managed post-production schedules, client communications, QC, and deliverables across projects.
Video Editor at Youshaei Studios
December 30, 2017 - Present
Edited an unscripted television show for Amazon Prime; edited social media reels, short films, documentaries, interviews, branded content, movie trailers, and sizzle reels for clients including Jon Youshaei, Yogi Tea, Digital Cave Media, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of State, McGraw Hill, MJZ and Pearson.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in International Studies at Vassar College
January 11, 2030 - November 29, 2025
Bachelor’s Degree at Vassar College
January 11, 2030 - August 24, 2026

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services
    The Making of Beast Games

    Edited hour-long episodes from verité footage of The Making of Beast Games (dir. Jon Youshaei) for release on Prime Video and Youtube. In episode one (linked above) I was the primary editor for the section between 20:05 - 34:50

    Dog People Sizzle Reel


    Wrote and edited sizzle reel to support a crowdfunding campaign for the short film, Dog People (dir. Katie Spear and Vera Samuels)

    Sidequest


    A scene from the short film, Sidequest (dir. Eliza Schiff) edited by Katie Spear

    SYNCHRO sizzle reel

    Sizzle reel created for a documentary film pitch about a competitive synchronized ice skating team.

    Sunfish (and Other Stories on Green Lake)

    Assistant editor for feature film directed by Sierra Falconer. Film was an official selection for Sundance and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.