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Heidi Emberling

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 Heidi Emberling



Email:  heidi@emberling.com



Heidi Schmidt Emberling is a filmmaker, freelance editor, and educator 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.

Other 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 including HGTV (The Home and Garden Channel). She also 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, a Master's degree in Education from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in Language Studies from UC Santa Cruz.

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