Jocelyn is a filmmaker, Emmy-winning editor, author, and Teaching Professor (promoted in 2025) with over two decades of industry experience and more than 16 years of full-time university teaching. She brings a unique blend of technical expertise and creative storytelling to her work—both in the classroom and the editing suite.
Jocelyn has edited over 250 episodes of television, including the Emmy-winning Disney+ series
Weird but True and the Emmy-nominated
Life 2.0, to name a few. Earlier in her career, she edited theatrical trailer campaigns for major films like
Spider-Man 2,
The Aviator,
Spirited Away, and
March of the Penguins, and collaborated with artists such as Oliver Stone, Gary Oldman, and Joel Cox.
She holds an MFA in Film Editing from the American Film Institute (2005), where she received the Hollywood Foreign Press “Achievement in Editing” scholarship and was nominated for both an ACE Eddie and a Key Art Award.
Jocelyn is also the author of
Editing: The Art of Digital Storytelling and has directed internationally recognized documentary work, including
The Human Element, which screened globally and was honored at the Impact DOCS Awards and “Yellow Shoes” for Sundance's Social Change Short Film Competition.
Her commercial editing credits include projects for Apple, Adidas, and ESPN.
When she’s not teaching or cutting footage, she’s raising three kids, an AVID snowboarder, or riding her Honda CB1100, “Toothless.”
Editing, The Art of Digital Storytelling (as Jocelyn Motter), Kendall Hunt, 2013
"Editing: The Art of Digital Storytelling is a detailed, picture filled book about how to use the Avid Media Composer software, step by step. Editing: The Art of Digital Storytelling won't teach students how to edit for editing is storytelling and that takes years of practice, but this book will help young filmmakers tame the beast that is Avid, and in doing so, help them to understand the technical side of editing." (Publisher's description).