Charnelle “Cha” Quallis (she/her) is a film editor. She began her career editing creative and promotional content for broadcast and digital platforms at NBC Sports & Olympics. After three emmys and six years in sports production, she decided to follow her passion for documentary storytelling. Cha wanted to help tell—or retell—real, short- and long-form stories that inspire and galvanize audiences. Stories that question the past and inform the future. She was excited by the opportunity to collaborate and craft stories with her peers, whilst using J cuts profusely (🤓).
Cha has since worked on a handful of PBS Frontline documentaries, including the 2019 duPont–Columbia Gold Baton winner, The Gang Crackdown. In 2019, she was selected for the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Diversity Program. More recently, she edited Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? which won the Executive’s Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Pan African Film Festival in 2023. She was also an editor on Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy which was a 2022 duPont-Columbia Award Finalists.