Nancy Novack is an award-winning film editor and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She has edited both fiction and non-fiction films, starting as an apprentice editor on Awakenings with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams. After working on over a dozen dramatic films, including Drop Back Ten (Official Sundance selection in Dramatic Competition, 2000), Buffy and the Vampire Slayer (first assistant editor), and Spiderman 1 and 2 (assistant editor), she became known for some of the most important documentaries of the last decade.