Ken Schneider, ACE | Producer/Director/Editor
Ken Schneider is a Peabody- winning producer/director who has also edited nearly 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime and Al-Jazeera, and others. He received a Peabody as Co-producer and editor of Soft Vengeance. He edited the Oscar-nominated Regret to Inform, described by the New York Times as “unforgettable ... exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.” Other films he edited have earned multiple Emmys, a Columbia-Dupont, three Peabodys, an Indie Spirit and top awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Ken is drawn to stories of war and peace, human rights, artists, American history, contemporary social issues, and Cuba.

Ken has taught at NYU-Tisch, Chapman University, and San Francisco City College, and lectured at the SF Art Institute, University of San Francisco, and Harvard. He has been a panelist for the National Endowment for Humanities, the Emmys, and various film festivals. Other projects include: Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (Peabody), Have You Heard From Johannesburg (Emmy winning series), The Judge (TIFF), In Football We Trust (Emmy, Sundance), Orozco: Man of Fire, Ralph Ellison: An American Journey (PBS' American Masters), Mankiller, Store Wars, School Colors (PBS' Frontline), Bolinao 52 and Ancestors in the Americas. Ken directs and edits in both English and Spanish.

Visit www.kenschneidereditor.net for more details about Ken's editing work.

Marcia Jarmel | Producer/Director/Writer/Impact Producer

Marcia Jarmel has produced and directed a slate of award-winning films for PatchWorks Films. She also works as a consultant and impact strategist on a broad range of films, including the Oscar nominee Last Day of Freedom and HBO’s Emmy-nominated 50 Children.   

Marcia has taught both undergrad and graduate film courses at NYU and Chapman University and been honored with residencies with Working Films, the Fledgling Fund, SFFilm, the Kopkind Colony, and BAVC Media Maker.  She has served as a juror for the Emmys, BAVC MediaMaker, and many film festivals.

Other credits include co-editing the Academy Award nominee, For Better or For Worse, and assistant producing the Academy Award nominees, Berkeley in the Sixties and Freedom on my Mind. Prior to founding PatchWorks, Marcia directed and produced The Return of Sarah’s Daughters (Women in the Director’s Chair, DocuWeek, Cinequest, APT) and The F Word (Living Room Festival, AFI's VideoFest and the Judy Chicago film series at the Brooklyn Museum of Art).

Eréndira Olivera | Associate Producer
Eréndira Olivera is a Mexican video and film editor and producer based in the Bay Area. She has been working in film and television since 2007. Graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Media and Communication from ITESM CCM in Mexico City. Eréndira began her career as an independent filmmaker making videos for nonprofits organizations like Oxfam Mexico, Oxfam GBS and Save the Children. In 2014 she moved to California where she has produced and edit award-winning short films and web series for rLoop, TE Connectivity, and Stanford SEED. She is associate producing Los Hermanos/The Brothers for PatchWorks Films.

Daniel Chavez Ontiveros | Associate Editor
Daniel Chavez Ontiveros was born and raised in Mexico City. He studied Media & Communication Science at the ITESM-CCM. Later, he was accepted at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC-UNAM), where he studied an intensive program in Filmmaking. In 2016, with grants from FONCA/CONACYT for studies abroad and from the Jumex Foundation, he graduated from an M.F.A. program in Documentary Film & Video at Stanford University. During the program, he directed four documentary short films: Born Fighter (2015), I am Ayotzinapa (2015), Still Life (2015), and his thesis film El Cisne (2016). In 2013, he started his own audiovisual production company, Think Films, dedicated to creating documentary series for several international organizations such as Oxfam, TE Connectivity, and the Stanford Business School. These documentaries are focused on topics such as worldwide migration, protection of human rights, wilderness preservation, science, and technology. Dani is assistant editing Los Hermanos/The Brothers for PatchWorks.