Don Bernier

Don Bernier is an Emmy-nominated documentary film editor. Most recently, he edited Athlete A (Netflix) for Actual Films, which had its world premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2018, Bernier cut Always in Season, which won a Special Jury Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Bernier's editing credits also include Charm City (Independent Lens/PBS), which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was shortlisted for a 2019 Academy Award; the Oscar shortlisted An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Paramount Pictures), which opened the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and premiered internationally at the Cannes Film Festival; 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). Additionally, he has been a contributing editor on numerous award-winning documentaries, including The Overnighters, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Bernier also works regularly as an editorial consultant and is a Sundance Institute Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow. In 2017, Don was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' Documentary Branch.