Joan Goldsmith
info@joangoldsmith.com
Editor
Editor & Producer
VH1 & Left/Right, Inc. - NY, NY
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May 2008 – Aug 2008
‘I Want to Work for Diddy’, twenty-five 2min web extras for reality tv show
Thirteen contestants vie for the opportunity to be Sean Diddy Combs’ personal assistant
Web Link: www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/i_want_to_work_for_diddy/series_videos.jhtml
• Developed, directed & edited special content for “Diddyisms” & “Diddy Survival Guide”
Editor & Producer
VH1 & Left/Right, Inc. - NY, NY
Sept 2007 – March 2008
‘The Salt –n– Pepa Show’, fifty 2min web extras for reality tv show
Two female hip-hop singers attempt to reunite as a group & repair their friendship
Web Link: www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_salt_n_pepa_show/series_videos.jhtml
• Developed, directed & edited special content for “She Said, She Said”
Editor & Co-Writer
KINO International - NY, NY
June 2007 – July 2007
‘Morris Engel: The Independent’, 28min biographical documentary
Details the impressive photographic & filmmaking career of Morris Engel
DVD Extra: The Films of Morris Engel (box set)
Assistant Editor
The Center for New American Media - NY, NY
Dec 2006 – Jan 2007
‘The Big Read', 30sec public service announcement videos
National Endowment for the Arts campaign to revive the reading of literary classics
Web Link: www.cnam.com/flash/index.html
First Assistant Editor
HBO Documentary Films - NY, NY
Nov 2006 – July 2007
‘Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq’, 80min documentary
James Gandolfini (of Sopranos) interviews 12 U.S. soldiers wounded in the Iraq war
Aired: HBO - September 9, 2007
• Re-worked scenes under supervision of Sheila Nevins, head of HBO's documentary division
• Edited extra character stories
Assistant Editor
HBO Documentary Films - NY, NY
Sept 2006 – Oct 2006
‘Addiction’, 14 part documentary series
Explores different kinds of drug addictions
Aired: HBO - March 15, 2007
Editor
Blue Suitcase Productions - Austin, TX
Jan 2006 – May 2006
‘What Makes Kinky Run?’, 5min documentary fundraising trailer
Follows the gubernatorial campaign of Kinky Friedman, a Texas country-music singer & novelist
Screened: Austin Film Society's 2007 grant writing seminars
Editor
ScienCentral, Inc. - NY, NY
June 2005 – Jan 2006
News Packages, 90sec health & technology related stories
Aired: ABC & NBC local networks
Assistant Editor
The Cutting Vision (currently Bond Edit) - NY, NY
Commercials, 30sec in Spanish
Direct TV, Nissan, Pantene & Heineken
Aired: Univision & Telemundo
Feb 2005 – May 2005
Joan Goldsmith
Editor
Assistant Editor
Young & Rubicam - NY, NY
info@joangoldsmith.com
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Sept 2004 – Jan 2005
Commercials, 30sec in Spanish
Sears, Toys “R” Us & Hertz
Aired: Univision & Telemundo
• Cut on-air Sears promos to appear within Sabado Gigante show
Assistant Editor
New York Times Television - NY, NY
July 2004 – Sept 2004
'Making the Message', 80min documentary
Ventures behind the scenes of the Democratic & Republican 2004 National Conventions
Aired: Discovery Times – September 12, 2004
• Cut last-minute picture & audio changes before on-line
Assistant Editor & Associate Producer
The Center for New American Media - NY, NY
Jan 2002 – Aug 2004
'Small Ball', 90min documentary
Follows one team's tremendous Little League season
Aired: PBS - April 14, 2004
Assistant Editor & Associate Producer
The Center for New American Media - NY, NY
Jan 2002 – Aug 2004
'Sex: Female', 70min documentary
Features every-day women talking about sex & relationships
Aired: Oxygen Media - June 21, 2003
Editor, D.P & Producer
OiO Productions - NY, NY
‘We’re Trying to Run a Utopia Here', 37min documentary
Highlights a liberal Quaker-based summer program designed for older teens
Screened: PBS & CPB Green-lighting Team - September 28, 2001
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
‘We’re Trying to Run a Utopia Here’
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Screened at Anthology Film Archives - NY, NY – October 2001
Screened at AVIF's 3rd Annual Pitch to Public TV - NY, NY - September 2001
Screened at Two Boots Pioneer Theater - NY, NY - December 2001
Screened at the F4 Film Festival - Seattle, WA - April, 2003
‘What Makes Kinky Run?’
• Winner of the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Grant Austin, TX - September 2006
• Screened at the grant writing seminars of the Austin Film Society - Cycle of 2007
EDUCATION
School of Visual Arts - New York, NY
• Master on Fine Arts in Photography, Video & Related Media, May 2001
• Art Education Certification for public school grades K-12, May 2001
Tulane University - New Orleans, LA
• Bachelor of Arts in Spanish / Minor Sociology, May 1997
University Complutense - Madrid, Spain
• Study Abroad, September 1995 – May 1996
June 2000 – Sept 2001