Avril Beukes

Avril Beukes' career spans decades. She has edited more than 25 feature films. "Little One", which she edited in 2012, was selected as the South African Foreign Language entry to the 2013 Academy Awards. Other highlights include "Yesterday" which was nominated for the 2005 Foreign Film Academy Award and "Red Dust" starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor (for which she received the inaugural Golden Horn Award for Feature Film Editing in 2006). Whilst still in her native South Africa, Avril won numerous other awards for her editing work in feature films and television. She edited the debut feature films of directors Tom Hooper and Gavin Hood and worked extensively with Darrell James Roodt. In the US, she has edited feature films, scripted TV and feature documentary films, working with directors such as LeVar Burton, Jeff Stephenson, Rockmond Dunbar and Leila Djansi. Avril's scripted TV work includes 4 seasons of Ava DuVernay's OWN series "Queen Sugar" and Season 1 of Tarell McCraney's "David Makes Man".