Brent Joseph | Editor

Full films and excerpts of editing work.

FEATURES & TV

QUEEN OF PARADIS

Co-Editor

Directed by Carl Lindstrom

French artist Reine Paradis embarks on a dangerous and surreal road trip across the U.S. to complete her next body of work.

Winner: Excellence in Documentary Feature Editing - Ashland Film Festival

Y.M.V.P.

Editor, Co-Writer

Y.M.V.P. chronicles the lived experience of four young men growing up in the toughest neighborhoods in New Orleans. Camp Restore, a non-profit in New Orleans East that had received a grant from the Kellogg Foundation, engaged these men to learn how to document their lives with video. Entrusted with 50 hours of their footage and the directive to make a feature, I was rewarded with the most challenging and gratifying projects to date.

SHELL SHOCKED

TV Documentary

Co-Writer, Editor

Directed by John Richie

An investigation into the causes and possible solutions to the youth violence epidemic in New Orleans, frequent murder capital of the US.

Broadcast on PBS World

FIVE TIME CHAMPION

Lead Editor

Directed by Berndt Mader

A small-town Texas drama about love, hope, petty theft, adultery, and the boundless opportunities presented by science.

Starring: Ryan Akin, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Jon Gries, Robert Longstreet, Betty Buckley

Music by Graham Reynolds

Soundtrack available on iTunes

Purchase film on Amazon

MTV'S TRUE LIFE: I'M LIVING IN IRAQ

TV Documentary

Co-Editor

Directed by David Schisgall

This look inside the early days of the Iraq war from the perspective of both Iraqi citizens and American soldiers was the first long-form documentary on Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Winner 2005 Edward R. Murrow Award - Best TV News Documentary

Co-edited by Andrew Hafitz