Emir Lewis, has built an exceptional editing & producing career over the years. With his credits spanning feature films, documentaries & TV series.

Beginning his career with Slam which won both the Sundance film festival Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes film festival Camera DʼOr in 1998. In addition, several other documentaries edited by Emir have received high honors such as HBOʼs O.J. – A Story in Black & White (2003 Emmy winner), PBSʼ Two Towns of Jasper (2003 DuPont and Peabody Awards). He has also parlayed his 25 years of editorial experience into a producer/director role for WNET, garnering Emmy nominations for both In the Footsteps of Marco Polo & Pioneers of THIRTEEN, as well as Driving While Black: Race Space & Mobility in America co-producing with the acclaimed historical documentarian Ric Burns which won the American Bar Association’s prestigious Silver Gavel Award. Emir has also recently expanded his network TV career by working as a Supervising Story Producer on documentary series for Netflix’s Rapture and A&E’s Secret Origins Of Hip Hop.

In the future, Emir plans to continue editing, producing and directing for a diverse range of media projects, but is also very happy teaching the next generation of students the fine art of editorial storytelling at NYU’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television.