Cecilia Préstamo
- Editor
- Script and Continuity Department
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Cecilia Préstamo is an award winning documentary editor with extensive experience in vérité filmmaking. A bilingual Cuban-born exile, she currently balances independent film editing with her work as an editor for WORLD Channel at GBH in Boston. Recent projects at WORLD Channel include co-editing Fannie Lou Hamer's America, alongside Director Joy Elaine Davenport. This profile of the civil rights icon, produced by Hamer's niece Monica Land, was awarded Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series at the 38th IDA Documentary Awards.
Her training as a classical musician informs her role as a sound designer and music editor for her projects, including the feature documentary Dreams of Chonta, a profile of an Afro-Colombian undocumented musician and his battle to survive New York's underground Latin American music scene.
Cecilia is currently editing a series of historical features commissioned by the City Of Las Vegas documenting the first 100 years of the famed city. She is also in the early stages of production on a feature documenting the effects of environmental injustice in the city of Chelsea, MA.
Her training as a classical musician informs her role as a sound designer and music editor for her projects, including the feature documentary Dreams of Chonta, a profile of an Afro-Colombian undocumented musician and his battle to survive New York's underground Latin American music scene.
Cecilia is currently editing a series of historical features commissioned by the City Of Las Vegas documenting the first 100 years of the famed city. She is also in the early stages of production on a feature documenting the effects of environmental injustice in the city of Chelsea, MA.