Don Bernier

Don Bernier, ACE, is an Emmy-nominated documentary film editor who has worked on experimental, historical and verité features, series, and shorts. Currently, he is working on Life After, a new film by Reid Davenport investigating medically assisted suicide and the disabled community. Most recently, he edited Murf the Surf (Imagine Documentaries / This Machine), a four-part series about convicted jewel thief and murderer turned prison evangelist Jack Roland Murphy. Bernier's editing credits also include Athlete A (Netflix), which won a 2021 Emmy award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary and earned Don a Critic's Choice Documentary Award nomination for Best Editing; Always in Season, which won a Special Jury Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival; the Emmy-nominated Charm City (Independent Lens / PBS), which was shortlisted for a 2019 Academy Award; the Oscar shortlisted and BAFTA nominated An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Paramount Pictures / Participant), which opened the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and premiered internationally at the Cannes Film Festival; the Peabody Award winning Audrie & Daisy (Netflix), which had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival; The Genius of Marian (POV / PBS), which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival; and the Peabody Award winning bio, Eames: The Architect and the Painter (American Masters / PBS). Bernier also works regularly as an editorial consultant, contributing to recent films such as Pray Away and In the Same Breath. He is a two-time Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and has served as a mentor for The Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, BAVC's MediaMaker program, Chicken & Egg, the Catapult / True False Rough Cut Retreat, and the SFFILM Makers Creative Advisory Board. In 2017, Don was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Documentary Branch. He is also an active member of American Cinema Editors (ACE) since 2022.