John David Allen, A.C.E., has edited over 20 feature films in a wide variety of genres, as well as TV dramas and award-winning short films. For Merchant Ivory Productions he edited?The Golden Bowl,?Le Divorce,?The White Countess,?City of your Final Destination, and?Cotton Mary. For director Bruce Beresford he edited?Peace Love and Misunderstanding?and the A&E/Lifetime/History miniseries?Bonnie & Clyde. Recent credits include William Monahan’s?Mojave, Bette Gordon’s?The Drowning, Ondi Timoner’s?Mapplethorpe, and John Swab’s?Body Brokers?due out in 2021. John is the?director of numerous short films, including?Love and Roadkill, which screened at more than 15 international film festivals in 2009. He lives in Brooklyn.






Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film