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PATSY NORTHCUTT
Filmmaker / Editor

TRACK RECORD
• Two-time Emmy® Award winning (Northern California and Los Angeles area) documentary filmmaker with 25 years of experience telling engaging stories that inspire a healthy, sustainable and just future.
• Wrote, directed, produced and/or edited 200+ films, videos, trailers and animations.
• Edited and was consulting producer on Running for the Mountains, feature documentary. Premiere: 2024 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
• Co-produced 2021-2022 Global Mosaic TV mini-series, broadcast primetime PBS SoCal, KCET (PBS, L.A.), Link TV Satellite nationwide, and TV UNAM across Mexico. Directing and editing roles on several episodes.
• Edited Earth Focus: Vanishing Coral, broadcast primetime PBS SoCal & KCET (PBS, L.A.) and Link TV Satellite nationwide.
• Co-directed/produced and edited Journey of the Universe, broadcast PBS in major cities 2011-2014 and won Northern California Emmy® for Best Documentary.

TEAMS
Northcutt is a team player and has extensive experience leading, collaborating, supporting, giving and receiving direction, mentoring, and building custom teams of storytellers, creative artists, technicians and content experts whom she’s worked with many times.

SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT
Working with clients who are leading the way for positive change, Patsy has edited, produced, directed, and/or written films and videos on green building, clean tech, coral reef preservation, regenerative solutions, alternative transportation, climate justice, ecological footprint, empowering girls and women, mindfulness, biodiversity, the right to clean water and more.

CONSULTING PRODUCER
Patsy Northcutt advises and supports on all aspects of production, from early needs assessment stages, to creative and story development, to editing and post-production. She can help identify whether film and video storytelling are the appropriate medium, brainstorm ways to leverage a project for maximum results, up-level existing work, and offer business and storytelling, directorial, post-production guidance, and more. 

AWARDS
• Best Environmental Documentary—2024 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival (Ohio) (Running for the Mountains)
2024 Thaddeus Stevens Award for Social Engagement ($1,000 Prize)—2024 10th Anniversary MNFF (Running for the Mountains)
• Los Angeles Emmy® Award—Education/Information, 2021 (GLOBAL MOSAIC: Young Women Rising)
• Northern California Emmy® Award—Best Documentary, 2012 (Journey of the Universe)
• Global Award—Montana CINE International Festival, 2012 (Journey of the Universe)
• Gold Cindy-Interactive Marketing—Siemens Semiconductors, 1998 (Siemens Marketing)

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Mill Valley Edit Suite

The Northcutt edit suite is in walking distance from downtown Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco at the base of Mt. Tamalpais. The studio’s design was inspired by Patsy’s days as an online editor, with soft lighting and the noisy hard drives and server in a separate machine room, creating a whisper quiet workspace. There is beautiful outdoor seating, a waterfall nestled in redwoods up the street, and nearby hiking, swimming and mountain biking.

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Please email Patsy if you’d like to connect or discuss a project: info@northcuttprod.com

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PRACTICING WHAT WE PREACH
Northcutt has long been aware of the environmental costs of filmmaking. So we are mindful to tread lightly where possible: from using remote workflows, paying more for 100% renewable electricity, and hiring local crews; to licensing existing footage and shipping and receiving things slowly rather than overnight; to eating responsibly and ebiking for errands; to making sure that our stuff gets a new home as soon as we no longer need it so it can be reused before it’s obsolete, donating equipment to ewastecollective.org and paying GreenDisk.com to recycle our Technotrash, and more.

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