Patrick Barnes is an alumnus of the film and video program at the California College of the Arts, where he studied with artists/filmmakers Barney Haynes, David Sherman, and Richard Beggs (Apocalypse Now, Lost in Translation). His thesis film, Civil, featuring graffiti artist Emuse, was a finalist at the National Student Film and Video Festival at Hunter College in New York. As editor, Barnes has worked on a wide variety of features and shorts. Most recently he edited the narrative feature The Lost Coast (Dir. Gabriel Fleming), which premiered in competition at South by Southwest and won Best U.S. Narrative Feature at NewFest, New York. He also edited and co-produced the 2007 feature-length documentary Punk's Not Dead (Prods. Susan Dynner, Brick, and Todd Traina, Grace is Gone), which premiered at Silverdocs, screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Film Festival and had a successful theatrical run in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Australia. With a background that extends beyond editing into fine art, design and politics (he was the youngest paid staff member on the Clinton/Gore 1992 campaign), Barnes brings strong storytelling skills and an aesthetic point-of-view to his work and is committed to helping realize original and diverse projects.