Tina  Pacheco is a fifteen-year veteran of New York’s film community. Pacheco edited “Live Free or Die”, a feature length comedy staring Aaron Stanford, Zooey Deschannel and Michael Rappaport. “Live Free or Die” was Pacheco’s first collaboration with writer/directors Gregg Kavet and Andy Robin. “Live Free or Die” premiered at the South by Southwest film festival, where it won the jury prize for best narrative feature film. It was released by ThinkFilm in spring 2007.  Kavet and Robin, former writers on NBC’s “Seinfeld”, continued the collaboration with Ms. Pacheco. She edited their pilot for the FX network, “The Mikes”.

Pacheco’s next project was “Blackout”. Directed by Jerry LaMothe, “Blackout” is a narrative feature dealing with the effects of the 2003 blackout on a predominantly African-American area of Brooklyn N.Y. “Blackout” stars Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Saldana and Melvin Van Peebles. The film was an official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007, and is currently airing on the BET network, and was released on  DVD March 2008.

    Impressed by her sense of story, actor/director Giancarlo Esposito hired her to edit his debut as a director, “Gospel Hill” . “Gospel Hill” is a narrative feature film drama dealing with race relations in the present day south. The cast includes Julia Stiles, Danny Glover, Angela Basset and Samuel L. Jackson. The latest film Pacheco edited was feature film comedy directed by Edoardo Ponti starring Rhys Darby (Flight of the conchords, Yes man). This film titled “Coming and Going” , is currently in post-production.

Pacheco, a native of Miami, Fl., began her career in editing after graduating from the prestigious Tisch School of the arts film school at NYU. She edited international commercial spots for Kesser Productions in Miami, before returning to New York to work with famed director Abel Ferrara. Pacheco has enjoyed a collaboration with actor /director Steve Buscemi (as additional editor on his film “Lonesome Jim” and as assistant editor on his film, “Animal Factory”). She has assisted award-winning editors, Sarah Flack, Kate Williams, Plummy Tucker and Tracy Granger. Some of her credits as an assistant include “Boy’s Don’t Cry” directed by Kimberly Peirce, “Empire Falls” directed by Fred Schepisi and “Scoop” directed by Woody Allen.