Biography

Nels Bangerter is an award-winning documentary film editor known for finding original and effective approaches to form and structure. His widely-acclaimed work includes CAMERAPERSON, the through-the-viewfinder memoir of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson; 32 SOUNDS, a film and live-performance documentary exploration of sonic experience; LET THE FIRE BURN, an all-archival examination of the police bombing of MOVE in Philadelphia; DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD, a hybrid docu-comedy about loss and memory; THE HOTTEST AUGUST, an essayistic survey of New Yorkers coping with the uncertain future; and RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A., an archival interrogation of the state’s reaction to the uprisings of the late 1960s. Nels has won four International Documentary Association Awards and two Cinema Eye Awards for Outstanding Editing (with two additional nominations); and has been nominated twice for News and Documentary editing Emmys and once for an ACE Eddie. He was named a film craft “Influencer” by Indiewire magazine, and is a member the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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