About
An award-winning Avid offline editor before moving into a career in film festivals, Erik recently returned to the timeline with a focus on long-form documentary projects.
His editing work includes the indie feature RODE TO NOWHERE (dir. Neil Butler) and the Billy Bob Thornton short THE LAST OF THE REAL COWBOYS (dir. Jeff Lester), as well as commercials for AmSouth Bank, Columbia Health System, HGTV, Captain D’s Seafood, Parisian, and Blockbuster Video, among others. Most recently he cut the Adia Victoria episode of the upcoming music documentary series ANALOG DRIVE, hosted by Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes), and was an additional editor on the card collecting documentary THE HOBBY (dir. Morgan Jon Fox).
Erik co-founded Birmingham, Alabama's Sidewalk Film Festival, serving as Director for its first eight years and producing the organization's inaugural Birmingham SHOUT, the first LGBTQ film festival in Alabama. He then ran the 4th annual BendFilm Festival and from 2008-2014 served as Executive Director of Indie Memphis, which presented him with their inaugural Vision Award at the 2015 Indie Memphis Film Festival. From 2016-2020, Erik was Head of Festival Programming for BendFilm and also programmed their year-round arthouse cinema, the Tin Pan Theater. He has served on numerous film festival juries, including Slamdance, South by Southwest, Mendocino, and the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy.
Erik received a BFA in Motion Picture Arts from Florida State University and an MFA with distinction in Craft Editing from Ravensbourne University London. He currently lives in southern France.