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Bernice Schneider is an award-winning documentary film editor. Her training and background is as a documentary filmmaker. She received her M.S. in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab under the direction of pioneer cinema-verité filmmaker Richard Leacock. She has worked as an editor of independent and broadcast documentary films for over 20 years.

Ms. Schneider edited numerous films for PBS’s premiere television series including Henry Hampton’s Blackside series on The Great Depression, the American Experience series, The Presidents (George H.W. Bush: Echoes of the Wise Men, Part 1), and American Experience’s Douglas MacArthur: Destiny and The Politics of War which won a Prime Time Emmy. Bernice has also edited films for Frontline, the Nova Science Unit American Masters and Independent Lens. She recently completed editing the independent documentary film, Rebel, which premiered at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

Ms. Schneider has also worked on location for PBS’s Newshour in Kenya, South Africa, Haiti and Somalia where she edited stories on political and cultural change in the developing world.

She has received honors and awards for her work including a Wallis Annenberg scholarship for women filmmakers, a Cine Golden Eagle, the Biographical Video Award, and an N.E.A. Regional Fellowship. Ms. Schneider also received several grants from the MIT Arts Council.