Nancy Novack
Nancy Novack
Documentary Skills
Editing Masterclasses
Visiting Lecturer (2019)
Nancy Novack is an Emmy award-winning editor that has been editing documentary and feature films for over 25 years.
Her work has appeared on HBO, PBS, ABC, The Sundance Channel, The History Channel, The National Geographic Channel and The Discovery Channel; and has been featured at the Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, and New York film festivals.
Her films have received numerous EMMY and Peabody awards, the Dupont award, and the George Polk award for Journalism.
In 2019, Words from A Bear was selected by The Sundance Film Festival and will premiere on PBS in November as part of the American Masters series. Also in 2019, Grass Is Greener premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival and is currently featured on NetFlix.
Other credits include - For PBS: The Gilded Age, Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (SxSW and DocNYC) Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clinton, Finding Your Roots, My Lai, Broadway: The American Musical; for ABC: Final Witness; for HBO: Southern Rites (HotDocs) Dear Talula (Tribeca Film Festival); and Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke (Venice Film Festival), which earned Ms. Novack an Emmy award for Outstanding Picture Editing of a Non-Fiction Program.
Theatrical features include: Take My Nose…Please! (which won two audience awards during the 2017 festival circuit), Boys, starring Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas; Drop Back Ten (Sundance Film Festival Official Selection) starring James LeGros and Amber Valetta; and the documentaries, Off The Rez (Tribeca Film Festival,) The Accidental Advocate (Impact Film Festival) and The Farm: 10 Down (Co-Director and Editor) – a follow up film to the Academy Award nominated documentary feature The Farm: Life in Angola Prison.
Nancy is a Professor Emeritus of Film Editing at the University of Pennsylvania where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Annenberg School of Communications.
