Chad Ervin
Editing
Chad is a documentary film producer & director raised in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Southern Appalachia. He co-owns Well Told Films in Vermont and works on film & media projects for clients both locally and nationwide. Chad is the director of the award winning Vermont-based documentaries “Gone Guys” and “Connected: Vermont’s Grassroots Effort for Rural Broadband” and has worked in a variety of roles on around thirty-five national documentaries, including films for PBS’s Frontline and American Experience. As a lead film editor his films premiered at South by Southwest (Join or Die) and the Toronto International Film Festival (Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart) and won Emmy, Peabody, Polk, and DuPont Columbia awards. “Coal’s Deadly Dust,” (co-producer / editor), was nominated for Emmy and Peabody Awards and was featured as a question on “Jeopardy!” His storytelling strives to explore complicated issues with compassion for the human impact behind the statistics.
Known for
Behind the camera13
- 2024Join or Die Editor
- 2022Police on Trial Editor
- 2022The Street Project Editor, Writer
- 2022The Sanctity of Space Editor, Writer
- 2021American Oz Editor
- 2019Tutwiler Editor
- 2019Coal's Deadly Dust Co-Producer
- 2017Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart Editor
- 2015Blackout Editor
- 2015Klansville U.S.A. Editor