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Karim López is an Emmy award-winning editor and director with over 30 credits in television, documentary and narrative film. Over the years, films and series he has edited have received various other accolades, including: a John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award, a Latin Grammy, a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Limited Doc Series, and the Special Jury Prize for Comedy at the 2016 L.A. Film Festival. He edited and produced the feature documentary, Garden of the Peaceful Dragon, recipient of the Best Documentary award at the 2017 Harlem International Film Festival. In 2022, Karim won a News and Doc Emmy for Outstanding Editing for the feature-length documentary, The Shockwave, about the 2020 shipping terminal explosion in Beirut and the governmental corruption and negligence which led to the blast. The doc also received a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism and an additional Emmy for research. In 2021 Karim cut the first episode of the Showtime documentary series, The Lincoln Project, directed by Fisher Stevens (Beckham, The Tiger King), and Karim Amer (The Great Hack, The Vow), which follows the infamous group of former Republicans who dedicated themselves to defeating Donald Trump in 2020. The series was nominated for a 2022 Critics Choice Award for Best Limited Doc Series. In 2020 he edited two episodes on the acclaimed HBO documentary series, The Vow, directed by Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated directors, Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer (The Square, The Great Hack, Control Room), which made many 2020 year-end 'Best of' lists for TV and Documentary including The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Variety. The New York Times called it "irresistible... an impressive and even transfixing achievement." In 2019, he edited Los Tigres del Norte at Folsom Prison, a Netflix documentary directed by Tom Donahue (This Changes Everything, Guest of Cindy Sherman) about the legendary Norteño band's live shows at Folsom Prison, which was nominated for two Latin Grammy's in 2020, winning one. Karim cut the independent narrative feature, En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day), written and directed by Jim McKay (Girlstown, Our Song), about a week-in-the-life of an undocumented Mexican immigrant in New York City. Septimo received widespread critical praise. It was a New York Times Critics' Pick and included on Variety's "Best Films of 2018, so far" list by Owen Gleiberman (“Captivating. Exquisitely crafted. Supremely confident.") It went on to win the John Cassavetes Award at the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards. In 2023 he edited two documentaries for PBS, including Roberta, an American Masters film about Roberta Flack. And most recently, he cut an episode of the ten-part Docu-drama People of the West, which tells the untold history of California as told by its first people (coming in 2026). Karim is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 700, and resides in Los Angeles, CA, USA. See past press and career highlights ________________________________________
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