David Stein

Transforming months of footage into tight and compelling AVID string outs. Supervising multiple editors through picture lock. Writing interview questions and bites. Tracking story and character arcs.

Creating tight compelling stringouts, collaborating with multiple editing bays, writing interview questions, delivering cuts for network.

Lead senior story producer in post and field

Shaping story and creating tight, compelling AVID string outs, Writing talent VO Collaborating with editors and EPs to deliver episodes to network.

• Teaming with editors and execs to create engaging episodes of this Emmy-nominated series. • Composing tight AVID string-outs. • Writing VO and ADR’s for narrator and talent.

Collaborating with production and editing episodes in post

Weaved multiple storylines for hour episodes about finding birth fathers.

Produced every aspect of the project, from pre-production to production (conducting interviews, tracking verite, etc) through edit and delivery.

• Transforming months of raw footage into compelling episodes of a new docu-series about families living off the grid. • Shaping taut AVID string-outs. • Collaborating with editors and EP’s for story and structure.

• The go-to creative lead for every phase of production, from development through delivery. • Supervising multiple edit bays through locked cut. • Overseeing story teams. • Collaborating with network and executives for story structure and episode content. • Writing and directing scenes and cast interviews in the field. • Composing tight AVID string-outs.

• Interfacing with network, executives and editors to shape series from rough cut through delivery.

Supervising edit process from start to finish and writing all VO and host/cast stand-ups

• Transformed months of reality footage into successful episodes of the network’s newest hit series.

Commandeered weeks of raw footage into compelling hourlong multi-story docudrama.

• Shaped hourlong multi-story documentary. • Supervised multiple editing bays and addressed network notes for final delivery. • Wrote VO and pick-up interviews.

• Directed multiple camera shoots of documentary-style comedy/drama. • Conducted compelling sit-down and on-the-fly interviews. • Developed emerging storylines. • Coordinated logistics on the road.

Researched and wrote all VO for VO-driven hourlong episode. Worked with post editing through final delivery.

• Helped launch Oprah Winfrey’s flagship design talk show. • Conceived and directed interviews and improvisations with celebrities and guests for engaging show packages.

• Delivered the grand season finale. • Wrote and directed host wraps.

• Crafted raw reality into gripping episodes of the highest rated show on the network

Story Producer/Editor

• The go-to person in the field for the #1 rated show on the network. • Responsible for every aspect of dozens of domestic and foreign episodes, guiding casts and crews around the world—from Paris, Texas to Paris, France.

• Molded stories for entire episodes. • Guided editors from start to finish.

• Delivered 14 hit shows of this iconic series. • Guided every phase of production for episodes about Eminem, Hugh Hefner: Girlfriends, Wives and Centerfolds, etc. • Interviewed A-list celebrities including Hugh Hefner, Pamela Anderson, Donald Trump, Betty White, Run DMC, Jane Fonda . . . • Wrote scripts and voiceover. • Collaborated on art direction, SMOKE and scoring.