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 followed her passion for documentary storytelling. Cha wanted to help tell short- and long-form stories that inspire and galvanize audiences. Stories that question the past and inform the future. She was excited 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 2022, Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy was a duPont-Columbia Award Finalist. Recently, she edited Fly With Me, which was nominated in the 46th News and Documentary Emmy Awards for Outstanding Historical Documentary.