Vanara Taing

About Vanara Taing

Vanara Taing is a Cambodian-American editor and writer based in Los Angeles. She's a two-time Independent Spirit Award Nominee, John Cassevetes category, for her writing and producing work on THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY and JAZZY and a Best Editing Independent Spirit Award Nominee for JAZZY.

Additional editing credits include, MILLER'S GIRL, SCOOB! and THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE. SAMNANG, a short she wrote, was a national narrative finalist for the Student Academy Award and premiered at the New York Film Festival. Her feature script, SEASON OF LIGHT, was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist.

Prior to film, Vanara was a radio producer at StoryCorps, a national oral history project. Her producing credits were awarded a 2012 George Foster Peabody Award and a 2013 duPont-Columbia Award as part of the collaboration between StoryCorps, NPR, POV, and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

She earned her MFA in Editing from the American Film Institute Conservatory while on a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. She holds a B.A. in English from Scripps College and a master's degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Education.