**FREE** PH Awards: WILL & HARPER

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Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman.

That friend was Harper Steele, a writer he met on his first day at Saturday Night Live back in 1995. From that fateful first meeting in the halls of 30 Rock, Will knew he had found a match made in comedy, and their friendship and creative partnership would only continue to grow over the next 3 decades.

In this intimate, honest, and heartfelt documentary, Will and Harper hit the open road together to process this new stage of their friendship and reintroduce Harper to the country that she loves this time, as herself. Over 16 days, the two drive from New York to LA, visiting stops that are meaningful to them, to their friendship, and to America. Through laughter, tears, and many cans of Pringles, they push past their comfort zones as they re-examine their relationships to these spaces, and to each other, in this new light. (Description courtesy of Netflix)

Monique Zavistovski, ACE, was raised by two classical musicians on the edge of New York’s Sleepy Hollow woods. Over the course of her career, she has edited over 40 documentaries and short films, and her work has won awards worldwide. 

As the editor on Will & Harper (2025), Monique is the recipient of an ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary Film. Will & Harper also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, won a Peabody Award, was nominated for a BAFTA and five Emmy awards, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. That same year Monique also edited The Only Girl In The Orchestra, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film and the Critics Choice Award. Her other work includes RAISE HELL: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Sundance, Winner Audience Award SXSW, 2019), The Wraith of Cobble Hill(Winner Sundance Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking, Academy Awards Shortlist, 2006), The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (Emmy Winner Outstanding Historical Film), The Light In Her Eyes (Sundance Film Forward), Limited Partnership (Winner IDA Humanitas Award), CITY 40 (Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Investigative Documentary), and They Call Me Magic.

Monique graduated with an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-author of Children and Fish Don’t Talk: Adventures with Nazis, Communists and the Metropolitan Opera, and is also a proud member of American Cinema Editors.



Lori Lovoy-Goran is a Los Angeles based film editor. She received an MFA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television and a BA in Philosophy and Fine Arts from Georgetown University.

Lori was an additional editor on Will & Harper which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, won a Peabody Award, and won a Peabody Award and the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Lori also edited the feature documentary KID90 (HULU, Best Streaming Documentary, Hollywood Critics Association), directed by Soleil Moon Frye, featuring Stephen Dorff, Brian Austin-Green, Balthazar Getty and David Arquette. She edited Delivery Girl (Sundance Film Festival), Stars and Strife (Starz), Lovely Jackson (Newport Beach Film Festival), Becky (Seattle International Film Festival and the Pan African Film Festival), and After We Leave (Best Feature Film Sci Fi London). Lori also edited Burden (ScreenDance & Aesthetica Film Festival) featuring a score from renowned musician Flea, as well as Cone of Power (Hammer Museum & ICA LA).

Lori’s short film, In Between Days, played at numerous festivals and won Best Short Documentary at South by Southwest Film Festival, as well as a DGA student film award. Her short film, Awake, debuted at the Seattle International Film Festival.