Jacob Bricca, ACE

Jacob Bricca, ACE is an award-winning film editor, director, producer, and scholar. He has edited fourteen feature documentaries including the international theatrical hit Lost In La Mancha, the 2016 Sundance Special Jury Award Winner The Bad Kids and the 2023 Peabody Award Winner Missing in Brooks County. His producing and directing credits include films screened at the Berlin International Film Festival, DOC NYC, and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.

His book Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice is the definitive textbook on documentary editing and is a part of the curriculum at film schools around the world, including the USC School of Cinematic Arts, UCLA, and the MetFilm School in London. His newest book How Documentaries Work, published by Oxford University Press, offers a provocative deconstruction of documentary tropes and conventions.

Bricca is a member of the American Cinema Editors, where he is Chair of the ACE Education Committee, and holds an MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute and BAs in Film Studies and Sociology from Wesleyan University. From 2002-2007, he ran the film production program at Wesleyan’s celebrated Film Studies Department. Students from his tenure at Wesleyan include editor Jennifer Lame, ACE (The Odyssey, Oppenheimer), director Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), and producer Dan Janvey (Nomadland, My Undesirable Friends: Part II).

He has been teaching at the University of Arizona since 2013, and his former students include assistant editor Stephanie Silva (F1, Digger), international sales executive Stephanie Coon (Cineflix Rights), and commercial director Christopher Nataanii Cegielski (Voyager). He specializes in teaching classes on narrative and documentary film editing, documentary history, and documentary production, and often accompanies students on the FTV Sundance Film Festival Student Trip.

News about his latest projects can be found on jacobbricca.com.