Biography

Darrin Navarro, ACE, attended three semesters of film classes at Los Angeles City College before a professor connected him in 1987 to an unpaid assistant editor position on an ultra-low budget horror film, The Bloody Monks (1989), at Roger Corman's New Horizon studios. For the next decade and a half, Navarro worked as an assistant editor on a wide spectrum of movies, including Darkman (1990), The Thing Called Love (1993), Jimmy Hollywood (1994), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Suspect Zero (2004), and Coach Carter (2005).

During the 1990s and early 2000s, he was an assistant to editor Augie Hess, working primarily on the films of William Friedkin during the latter's tenure at Paramount Pictures. During this period, he also assisted on the Director's Cut and re-release of Friedkin's horror classic, The Exorcist (1973).

Navarro's first feature editing job was the festival circuit drama, Hate Crime (2005). Shortly thereafter, Friedkin asked him to assume the editor's chair for the acclaimed psychological thriller, Bug (2006), which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival and came away with the FIPRESCI Prize. Later, Friedkin and Navarro worked together again on the black comedy, Killer Joe (2011), largely credited with helping to redefine _Matthew McConaughey''s career.

While attending AFI Fest in Los Angeles (where Bug was making its U.S. premiere), Navarro saw the offbeat comedy, The GoodTimesKid (2005), by emerging writer-director Azazel Jacobs, who had edited the film himself. Navarro was so taken with the movie that he approached Jacobs after the screening and proposed that they work together on Jacobs' next film. The two have since collaborated on the indie features, Momma's Man (2008), Terri (2011), and The Lovers (2017), as well as the comedic series Doll & Em (2013), for Sky TV and HBO.

Director James Ponsoldt so admired Terri when he saw it at its 2011 Sundance premiere that he later hired a number of its key craftspeople for his next film, Smashed (2012). This is how he and Navarro first met, and although Navarro did not ultimately edit Smashed, he and Ponsoldt did work together on subsequent projects, including The Spectacular Now (2013) and The End of the Tour (2015), and an episodic for Facebook Watch, Sorry for Your Loss (2018), scheduled to premiere in Summer 2018.

Other recent work in the world of streaming episodics includes stints on the second season of HBO's Ballers (2015), as well as Mozart in the Jungle (2014) and I Love Dick (2016), both for Amazon .

Darrin Navarro was born in 1967 in Whittier, CA, and lives today in the Los Angeles area.
- IMDb mini biography by: Hypersquared

Member of ACE (American Cinema Editors).