Person
Chad Ervin
Editing
Biography
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

The Sanctity of Space
Editor

Blackout
Editor

Tutwiler
Editor
Coal's Deadly Dust
Co-Producer

Join or Die
Editor

Klansville U.S.A.
Editor

The Street Project
Editor

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Editor
Dollars and Dentists
Editor

American Oz
Editor
Filmography
- 2024Join or DieEditor
- 2022Police on TrialEditor
- 2022The Street ProjectEditor
- 2022The Sanctity of SpaceEditor
- 2021American OzEditor
- 2019TutwilerEditor
- 2019Coal's Deadly DustCo-Producer
- 2017Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling HeartEditor
- 2015BlackoutEditor
- 2015Klansville U.S.A.Editor
- 2012Dollars and DentistsEditor
- —Gone GuysDirector
- —Connected: Vermont's Grassroots Effort for Rural BroadbandDirector
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