Person

Foto Carina Mergens

Carina Mergens

Lecturers

Documentary Film Editor

Vita

Born 1977 in Trier. 1997 to 2000 training as a media designer for image and sound with a focus on editing. 2001 to 2002 Further education programme "Film Montage" at the ifs internationale filmschule köln. 2006 I discovered my enthusiasm for documentary film and direct cinema during a retrospective of the Maysles brothers. 2007 to 2008 Postgraduate Diploma in "Documentary Filmmaking" at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. From 2008 editing all kinds of non-fictional formats for television, editing documentary short films on the side.
2015 Bild-Kunst documentary editing award for "Am Kölnberg". Since then, editor for feature-length documentaries.

filmography (selection)

Igor Levit - No Fear | 2021 | Director: Regina Schilling
Zuhurs Töchter | 2020 | Director: Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt
Erich und Schmitte | 2018 | Director: Stefan Eisenburger, Janina Jung, Hannah Dörr, Carina Mergens
Am Kölnberg | 2014 | Director: Laurentia Genske, Robin Humboldt