Katrina Taylor

Background

About Katrina Taylor

KATRINA TAYLOR is a three time Emmy award-winning, Los Angeles based film editor who is drawn to character driven stories with an emphasis on emotional accuracy, cinematic storytelling and social relevance. Most recently, she edited Season 2 of the hit Showtime series Couples Therapy and served as Consulting Editor for the Showtime documentary Cusp, which was selected for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and won the Sundance Film Festival US Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker. Katrina was a Lab Advisor for the 2020 Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and served as an Editor on the feature documentary Feels Good Man, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker and won an Emmy for Outstanding Research in a Documentary. Her latest feature, A Private Wild, received a Sundance Production grant and was chosen for the 2020 Sundance Talent Forum. Previous roles include Editor for the feature documentary Wildland which won 2 Emmy awards including Outstanding Editing on a Documentary and opened the 2019 Fall season of PBS Independent Lens, Editor for Season 2 of the Netflix Original Series, The Confession Tapes produced by A24, Editor for Awavena (2018 Sundance Film Festival, World Economic Forum, Venice Biennale) which won an Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary, Additional Editor on the Netflix Original series ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke and Editor for the feature documentary Boone ( 2016 SXSW, Berlinale). She was a Contributing Editor at the 2016 Sundance Institute Edit and Story Labs and is a founding member and served on the steering committee of The Alliance of Documentary Editors (ADE). Katrina’s work has been supported by Impact Partners, The Sundance Institute, Catapult Film Fund, Filmmaker Fund, IFP, Film Independent, Chicken and Egg, NYSCA and The Ford Foundation.