Erik Ewers has been working with Ken Burns and supervising editor Paul Barnes since 1990, getting his start as an apprentice editor on Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio. A communications major at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Erik got his opportunity when Paul bought his aunt and uncle’s house: “I was thrown into the deal – Paul wanted the window treatments and carpets, and my aunt and uncle wanted their nephew to be given an internship. They got my foot in the door, and it was up to me to keep it there.”
Erik has kept his foot in Ken’s door for almost 14 straight years, working in some capacity on almost every single one of Ken’s films since The Civil War: an assistant/associate film editor on Baseball; a music producer and head of the sound department for Thomas Jefferson; a co-editor on Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; editor for a National Park short film on Lewis and Clark; editor on Episodes Four and Seven of Jazz; editor on Mark Twain; editor on a shorter film on Mark Twain for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut; editor on Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip; editor on Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; for which he received an Emmy nomination; a picture and sound editor on The War, for which he received an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Sound Editing”; a picture and sound editor on The National Parks; and an editor on two of Ken’s upcoming films The Tenth Inning and Prohibition. With Ken’s blessing, Erik has also started a production company of his own called YourStory Productions, where he creates films for the general public in the same documentary film style. |
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