Nancy Novack
Editor/Producer

Nancy has been editing documentary and feature films for over 20 years. Her work has appeared on HBO, PBS, ABC, The Sundance Channel, The History Channel, The National Geographic Channel and The Discovery Channel; and has been featured at the Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, and New York film festivals. Her films have received numerous awards from Emmy, Peabody, Dupont, and the George Polk award for Journalism. Recent credits include – for PBS: Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (Spring, 2015), The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Clinton, Finding Your Roots, My Lai, Broadway: The American Musical; for ABC: Final Witness; for HBO: Southern Rites, Dear Talula, and Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke, which earned Nancy an Emmy award for Outstanding Picture Editing of a Nonfiction Program. She has also co-written and co-produced Songs of Odessa, a feature-length documentary about turn-of-the-century Odessa in Russia, told through the music and life of composer David Nowakowsky. Nancy received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a Professor teaches editing in the School of Fine Arts.

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