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Nels Bangerter

Nels Bangerter

Known For Editing
Birthday Jan 01, 1978 (47)
Birthplace Oakland, California
Popularity 0.2 (history)
Updated Aug 28, 2025
Entry Date Aug 28, 2025
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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-performa ... nce 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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32 Sounds

32 Sounds

2023

Editor

Riotsville, USA

Riotsville, USA

2022

Editor

Arctic Summer

Arctic Summer

2021

Editorial Consultant

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020

Writer, Editor

The Hottest August

The Hottest August

2019

Editor

Jaddoland

Jaddoland

2018

Consulting Producer

Exit Music

Exit Music

2018

Editor

Unseen

Unseen

2016

Writer

Cameraperson

Cameraperson

2016

Editor

Project X

Project X

2016

Editor

The Above

The Above

2015

Editor

You See Me

You See Me

2015

Editor

Kumu Hina

Kumu Hina

2014

Editor

A Place in the Middle

A Place in the Middle

2014

Editor

Let the Fire Burn

Let the Fire Burn

2013

Editor

Buzkashi Boys

Buzkashi Boys

2012

Editor

Out in the Silence

Out in the Silence

2009

Editor

War Child

War Child

2008

Editor

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