Erik Ewers

Co-Director and editor Erik Ewers has worked with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns — as Ewers likes to say — “ever since ‘The Civil War.’”

For more than 30 years, Erik has edited nearly all Burns’s single and multi-episodic films including Baseball, Jazz, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, The National Parks, Mark Twain, Prohibition, The Roosevelts, The War, The Vietnam War, and serving as senior editor on Country Music, and Hemingway.

Erik has been nominated for more than seven personal and program Emmy Awards and was awarded one editing Emmy and three program-series Emmys, as well as two prestigious ACE Eddie Award nominations and one ACE Award for “Best Edited Documentary of 2015.”

Erik is co-director and senior editor at Ewers Brothers Productions, a preferred collaborative company in the co-creation of Ken’s films. Ewers Brothers co-directed with Ken to create the two-hour film The Mayo Clinic: Faith, Hope, Science, which broadcast on PBS in 2018, and their partnership continued with the June 2022 broadcast of the film series, Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness.

Currently, Erik is at work with Burns, Florentine Films, and Ewers Brothers Productions on a sequel to their 2022 film on America’s adult mental health crisis, and a 3-hour film on the life and legacy of 19th century writer and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau.