Lesley Kubistal

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Lesley Kubistal is a Chicago-based editor who has over 15 years of experience editing narrative-driven projects, including, award-winning segments and series for “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and the Emmy-award winning series “Super Soul Sunday” for the OWN network. She has also worked on the award-winning documentary “SelectED,” the PBS special “American Pharaoh,” Kartemquin documentaries, including “Keep Talking” (PBS, 2017) and All the Queens Horses (2017, Netflix). Most recently she worked on “End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock” about the Dakota Access Pipeline which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in February 2021. Lesley loves taking visual elements and creating a story out of them – finding the perfect shot or the perfect moment to piece together a narrative that can make people laugh, cry, think, or be entertained.

[Bio as of May 2021]