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Nels Bangerter
Oakland, California
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 CAMERAPERS…
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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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2026
Argonauts at the End of History
Movie Editor
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2025
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Movie Additional Editing
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2025
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Movie Editor
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2025
The Tallest Dwarf
Movie Consulting Editor
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2023
32 Sounds
Movie Editor
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2022
Riotsville, USA
Movie Editor
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2021
Arctic Summer
Movie Editorial Consultant
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2020
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Movie Writer
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2019
The Hottest August
Movie Editor
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2019
Border South
Movie Consulting Editor
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2018
Jaddoland
Movie Consulting Producer
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2018
Exit Music
Movie Editor
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2016
Project X
Movie Editor
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2016
Cameraperson
Movie Editor
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2016
Unseen
Movie Writer
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2015
The Above
Movie Editor
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2015
You See Me
Movie Editor
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2014
A Place in the Middle
Movie Editor
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2014
Kumu Hina
Movie Editor
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2013
Let the Fire Burn
Movie Editor
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2012
Buzkashi Boys
Movie Editor
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2009
Out in the Silence
Movie Editor
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2008
War Child
Movie Editor
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2006
Cine Manifest
Movie Editor
