NEW DAY FILMS BY
Heidi Schmidt Emberling:

Spirit of the Dawn

Tangled Roots

Producer's Web Site:
www.spiritproductions.org

Heidi Schmidt Emberling is a filmmaker and freelance editor living in the Bay Area.

She received an Emmy nomination for editing San Francisco: Birth of a City, the first documentary in a 12-part series about the history of San Francisco for KRON-TV, San Francisco's NBC affiliate. Recent projects include editing seven short documentaries for Green Means, an environmental series for KQED-TV, San Francisco's PBS affiliate. She also produced and directed two short magazine style television pieces; Forgotten Children, about Guatemalan street kids, and Mystery Disease, about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

In addition to her documentary work, she also edits for corporate video, news, and cable channels like HGTV (The Home and Garden Channel). Before becoming a freelancer, she edited for Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic in both features and commercials. She has a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in Language Studies from UC Santa Cruz.

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