Editor

Avril Beukes

Avril Beukes' career spans decades. She has edited more than 25 feature films, the most recent being "Respect" starring Jennifer Hudson and directed by Liesl Tommy. "Little One", which she edited in 2012, was selected as the South African Foreign Language entry to the 2013 Academy Awards. Other highlights include "Yesterday" which was nominated for the 2005 Foreign Film Academy Award and "Red Dust" starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor (for which she received the inaugural Golden Horn Award for Feature Film Editing in 2006). South Africa's 1997 Oscar entry "Paljas" was co-edited by Avril.

Whilst still in her native South Africa, she won numerous other awards for her editing work in feature films and television. She edited the debut feature films of directors Tom Hooper and Gavin Hood and worked extensively with Darrell James Roodt.

In the US, she has edited feature films, scripted TV and feature documentary films, working with directors such as Julie Dash, Tina Mabry, Numa Perrier, Kiel Scott and Kasi Lemmons.

Avril's scripted TV work includes 4 seasons of Ava DuVernay's OWN series "Queen Sugar" and Season 1 of Tarell McCraney's "David Makes Man", the pilot episode of "The Thing About Pam", 2 episodes of "The Big Cigar" and 3 episodes of Bosch Legacy Season 3.

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