John Farbrother

John Farbrother

EditorProducer 1988–2025 (37 year career)
7.3 avg rating

Biography

John Farbrother is a documentary editor with nearly twenty years of experience. His first feature, Louder Than a Bomb, won the Humanitas Prize for Documentary and was selected for the U.S. State Department's 2011 American Documentary Showcase. He co-edited the Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning PBS Frontline film Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (dir. Steve James), and edited Finding Yingying (2020, dir. Jiayan "Jenny" Shi), winner of the SXSW Documentary Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Voice…