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Purcell Carson
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Purcell Carson is a documentary filmmaker and editor. As an editor, she’s served as a lead creative partner on long-form documentaries, including the Oscar-winning Smile Pinki and the 2011 Semper Fi: Always Faithful, which won best-editing from the Tribeca Film Festival. As director, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for her feature debut, Among the Perishable, a multi-character portrait of the global banana industry and has begun a series of shorts exploring the Guatemalan community in New Jersey. Purcell teaches a seminar in urban studies and film at Princeton University, where she is project director of a multi-year community-based documentary project, The Trenton Project. Purcell studied literature and history at Brown University, and received her Master's from Stanford University. She divides her time between New York City and Princeton, NJ.
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