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Nels Bangerter

1978 (48) • Editing

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.

Known For

Dick Johnson Is Dead

71%

Writer

2020

Cameraperson

67%

Editor

2016

Apocalypse in the Tropics

73%

Editor

2025

Let the Fire Burn

78%

Editor

2013

Project X

63%

Editor

2016

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

65%

Additional Editing

2025

Out in the Silence

56%

Editor

2009

Buzkashi Boys

64%

Editor

2012

Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

65%

Additional Editing

2025

Apocalypse in the Tropics

73%

Editor

2025

Apocalypse in the Tropics

73%

Co-Writer

2025

The Tallest Dwarf

10%

Consulting Editor

2025

32 Sounds

63%

Editor

2023

Riotsville, USA

56%

Editor

2022

Arctic Summer

Editorial Consultant

2021

Dick Johnson Is Dead

71%

Writer

2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead

71%

Editor

2020

The Hottest August

57%

Editor

2019

Border South

Consulting Editor

2019

Jaddoland

Consulting Producer

2018

Exit Music

Editor

2018

Project X

63%

Editor

2016

Cameraperson

67%

Editor

2016

Unseen

67%

Writer

2016

The Above

65%

Editor

2015

You See Me

Editor

2015

A Place in the Middle

80%

Editor

2014

Kumu Hina

61%

Editor

2014

Let the Fire Burn

78%

Editor

2013

Buzkashi Boys

64%

Editor

2012

Out in the Silence

56%

Editor

2009

War Child

40%

Editor

2008

Cine Manifest

65%

Producer

2006

Cine Manifest

65%

Editor

2006

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