I worked with the team from Cinemation Studios, all remotely across the US. The film runs 120 minutes and features eight interviews, animation 🎨, and a narration by Don Cheadle. The team was a joy to work with, which made the collaboration seamless. Given a tight turnaround, we completed the film in just four months. 

As the Assistant Editor, I stuck with a familiar documentary workflow – transcode in DaVinci Resolve and ingest into Avid Media Encoder. I then used After Effects and Photoshop to animate the newspapers and parallax photo treatments. Being remote and working in a Mac/PC environment meant there was a lot of file sharing. Dealing with thousands of archival clips and hundreds of animated clips, I'm grateful I kept up with a proper folder structure 📂 and file naming procedure.

One of the asks from History Channel was to fill the letterboxing with a treatment. We decided to create separate stylized effects for the different eras of the archival footage. Various textures are used throughout the film, starting in the early 20th century and continuing to the present day.

Triumph: Jesse Owens and The Berlin Olympics premiered June 19, 2024. Stream it on play.history.com/