Kevin O.

About

I'm an Emmy award-winning New York City and Los Angeles based editor of documentary films, commercial videos, investigative new videos, reality & documentary TV series, behind-the-scenes documentaries, social media videos and more with over 10 years experience. I additionally work as a multimedia producer, story producer, and story consultant for a wide range of companies. My most recent work includes freelancing as a Senior Video Editor for The New York Times, where I have edited several documentary and news video series including "Quarantine Diaries," "Diary of a Song" (featuring Billie Eilish, Lizzo, and Kacey Musgraves), and "Stressed Election," which was nominated for a 2021 News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Editing: News. I also currently freelance for a wide range of media platforms including Netflix, HBO, AMC, and Nickelodeon. My work as a commercial video editor has appeared everywhere from national ad campaigns to a billboard in Times Square for clients including Netflix, HBO, National Geographic, Adobe, Paypal, TED Talks, Paypal, Google, YouTube Originals, Sephora, Lyft, Salesforce, Clif Bar, Men's Health, The Cooking Channel, The LGBTQ Center of New York, Link NYC, Lyft, Outside Lands Music Festival, UC Berkeley, TED Talks, Google, and Planned Parenthood. The social media videos I edit for news and social media issues platform ATTN: have received tens of millions of views. I also edit for several other widely followed social media platforms such as NowThis News, BuzzFeed, Vice, Refinery 29, Big Think, Upworthy, Mic, Brut, Tastemade, and Zoe Saldana's social media production company, BESE. For Apple Music's social media platforms, I produced and edited "Broken Record," a documentary series on songs that have made a social and political impact featuring Patti Smith, Bono, Keith Richards, Sheryl Crow, and other artists. As a multimedia story producer, I have worked on numerous projects including "War Ink," an interactive website on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their tattoos, "This is Watts," featuring the stories of people who lived in Los Angeles during the Watts Riots, and "Stonewall Forever," a documentary and living monument in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. I have also worked as a story producer and editor for Riot Games, where I researched and scripted videos for their platforms. In 2020, I won an Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series as the editor for AMC’s “Legal Ethics With Kim Wexler," a companion web series for AMC's "Better Call Saul." As a TV editor I have worked on shows for Nickelodeon, HBO, and PBS. I recently edited behind-the-scenes documentaries for Disney, Netflix, and AMC as well as video retrospectives for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. I got my start as a documentary film editor working alongside renowned documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles of the Maysles Brothers ("Grey Gardens," "Gimme Shelter," "The Gates") and have since worked as an editor on several short and feature-length films. I am the editor of "Soledad," a feature-length documentary following three inmates after their release from one of California's most violent and overcrowded prisons, and recently co-edited "Voices Beyond The Wall," following a group of orphaned teenage girls living in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, murder capital of the world, as they learn to write poetry about their lives. I was the editor on Roku TV's Lesbian Bar Project, a docuseries following three lesbian bars across the country hosted by Lea Delaria. My work for the New York Times was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy. My work on the docuseries Lesbian Bar Project was nominated for a GLAAD award. My work editing promos for the TV show Better Call Saul won an Emmy Award. In addition to making films, I record and conducts oral history interviews across the country for StoryCorps, a National Public Radio and Peabody Award-winning project dedicated to preserving the stories of everyday Americans at the Library of Congress. My work as a radio editor has been broadcast on NPR, WNYC, KPCC, KQED, KALW, and PRI's The World. You can view my portfolio and recent samples of my work at: https://www.kevinoliveredits.com/

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