Berenice Chavez is a film editor based in Los Angeles. She received her MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute in 2016. She also was an additional editor and assistant editor for INVENTING TOMORROW, Sundance Film Festival participant, and IF I LEAVE HERE TOMORROW, SXSW Film Festival participant. She also produced and edited two short documentaries titled, PASSING THE TORCH and NORTH TO PARADISE, both of which received a total of three National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: Pacific Southwest Chapter Student Emmy Award nominations. She won two of those awards, one of them for editing.