Lori Petersen Waite

As a young kid growing up in Washington State, Lori fell in love with classic American films. When she went to film school, Lori knew right away she wanted to to be an editor. Synthesizing the disparate film elements into one cohesive cinematic story had the up most appeal to her. After graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Filmmaking from BYU, she began editing feature films for the family entertainment market, seven in all. Other editing projects were the CBS dramatic series Promised Land (a spin-off of the popular series Touched By an Angel); television commercials which aired in national markets; and programs for cable networks such as The Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, the History Channel, and HGTV. Her last project before taking time off to raise her daughter with her husband was an IMAX - ROAR: Lions of the Kalahari, produced by National Geographic Films. It won the 2005 Best Editing award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. During her child-raising hiatus, she edited projects for non-profits such as Hollywood's Digital Dove, a filmmaking program for young adults in a homeless shelter. In 2013, she relocated with her family from L.A. to Nashville, TN. Since her daughter is a big kid now, she has returned full-time to her freelance editing career. She works on both long and short-form projects, either narrative or documentary, and from the heap of raw footage help the director tell a vivid and compelling cinematic story.