Ken Schneider (Filmmaker)

Ken Schneider is an director, producer, and editor for PatchWorks Films, a production company in San Francisco. He has traveled and made films in Cuba for many years alongside wife and film collaborator, Marcia Jarmel. They co-directed Los Hermanos/The Brothers, which tells the story of virtuoso Afro-Cuban brothers living on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm, one in New York metropolitan area, the other in Havana. The film follows their parallel lives and poignant reunion through their momentous first performances together after so long apart. 
Outside of his directorial work for PatchWorks Films, Schneider works as a freelance editor. He has edited over 40 feature documentaries for PBS, HBO, Showtime (TV network), and Al Jazeera. The subjects range from art and literature to war and peace, immigration, disability and social justice. A notable editing credit is on the Oscar-nominated, Regret to Inform, which the New York Times described as “unforgettable … exquisitely filmed, edited and scored.” Regret to Inform was a Peabody Awards winner, recipient of the International Documentary Association Award for most distinctive use of archival footage, and a national Emmy Awards nominee. 
Schneider has also consulted on dozens of documentaries and lectured at San Francisco City College, San Francisco Art Institute, Chapman University, Harvard University, and New York University.
== Filmography (as editor) ==
==== War Peace and Human Rights ====
* Regret to Inform 
* Geographies of Kinship 
* PBS’ Independent Lens (2017, documentary)
* Then They Came For Us (2017, documentary) 
* Mankiller (film)
* El Poeta 
* La Principita de los Andes (The Little Princess of the Andes)
* 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus
* Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (2013, documentary)
* Into the Current (2011, documentary)
* Have You Heard from Johannesburg? 
* Bolinao 52 
* The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It 
* Iwo Jima: Memories in Sand
==== Art & Artists ====
* Los Hermanos/The Brothers 
* Orozco: Man of Fire 
* Ralph Ellison: An American Journey 
* In Camera: Naive Visual Effects; The Art of Eiko Ishioka; Method and Madness: Visualizing Dracula (2007, documentary)
==== Contemporary Social Issues ====
* Beyond the Opposite Sex 
* In Football We Trust 
* Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story 
* Havana Curveball (2014, documentary)
* Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014, documentary)
* My Favorite Neoconservative (2014, documentary)
* A Fierce Green Fire 
* Come Hell or High Water 
* Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice 
* Speaking in Tongues (film)
* Tale of Two Cities 
* Hold Your Breath 
* Freedom Machines 
* Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town 
* Born in the U.S.A. 
* Lieweila 
* Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West 
* The Return of Sarah's Daughters 
* Making Peace 
* School Colors
== Filmography (as director) ==
* Los Hermanos/The Brothers 
* And Then They Came for Us (2017, documentary)
* The Wheel of Life (2016, documentary short) 
* Havana Curveball (2014, documentary)
* Open the Classroom Door (2013, documentary short)
* Speaking in Tongues (film)
* Born in the U.S.A. 
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