DAVID COHEN
DIRECTOR | EDITOR
DAVID COHEN
DIRECTOR | EDITOR
David Cohen is a filmmaker & editor whose work has screened at Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, SXSW, Hot Docs, New Directors/New Films, DOC NYC, Outfest, Frameline and more. As an editor, his films have garnered numerous festival awards and Primetime Emmy Award® nominations including Outstanding Documentary & Outstanding Picture Editing.
David co-directed, co-wrote & edited LOVE & STUFF
with Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand. Called “an emotionally fecund, funny and deeply resonant work” by The Hollywood Reporter, the film was broadcast on POV/PBS in 2022 following its international film festival run.
Recent editing credits include:
PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS
(Sundance 2023, ABC/Hulu, Two Primetime Emmy Award® Nominations, Directed by Emmy winner Lana Wilson);
CHRISTOPHER AT SEA
(Sundance 2023, World Premiere: Venice; SXSW Special Jury Award winner, BAFTA short list);
THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
(Sundance 2022, Directed by Abigail Disney);
LOVE, GILDA
(Tribeca Opening Night Film, Magnolia Pictures/CNN Films, Two Primetime Emmy Award® Nominations); and
COOKED: SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE
(PBS/Independent Lens; Co-Producer & Editor). In addition to theatrical distribution and broadcast, his work has been published in The New York Times (Op-Docs), The Nation, Out.com and is on permanent exhibition at The Bob Dylan Center.
As a director & producer, David has secured support from ITVS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Just Films | Ford Foundation, Impact Partners and The Fledgling Fund. He is currently co-directing a documentary feature, is in development on his first narrative feature and serves as an editor on three feature documentaries forthcoming in 2024.
David has attended the Sundance Documentary Edit & Story Labs, the Joan Scheckel Filmmaking Labs and the BAVC/Tribeca (TFI) Producer’s Institute.
He has taught guest/master classes at Columbia University, Savannah College of Art and Design, University of California - Santa Cruz and has served as a mentor to undergraduates at NYU/Tisch. David was Adjunct Faculty in the Documentary Program at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism where he acted as a documentary instructor and advisor of capstone project films. He received his B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.