About

Known credits:
25
Birthday:
1978-01-01
Place of birth:
Oakland, California
Website:
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Nels Bangerter

Overview

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

Acting
2017 Editing Cameraperson Actor self N/A
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Writing
2025 Apocalypse in the Tropics Writing Co-Writer 59
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2020 Dick Johnson Is Dead Writing Writer 61
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2016 Unseen Writing Writer 58
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Production
2018 Jaddoland Production Consulting Producer N/A
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2006 Cine Manifest Production Producer 59
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Editing
2025 Apocalypse in the Tropics Editing Editor 59
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2023 32 Sounds Editing Editor 58
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2022 Riotsville, USA Editing Editor 58
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2021 Arctic Summer Editing Editorial Consultant N/A
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2020 Dick Johnson Is Dead Editing Editor 61
Fair
2019 The Hottest August Editing Editor 58
Average
2019 Border South Editing Consulting Editor N/A
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2018 Exit Music Editing Editor N/A
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2016 Project X Editing Editor 59
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2016 Cameraperson Editing Editor 59
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2015 The Above Editing Editor 58
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2015 You See Me Editing Editor N/A
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2014 A Place in the Middle Editing Editor 59
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2014 Kumu Hina Editing Editor 58
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2013 Let the Fire Burn Editing Editor 59
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2012 Buzkashi Boys Editing Editor 59
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2009 Out in the Silence Editing Editor 59
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2008 War Child Editing Editor 59
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2006 Cine Manifest Editing Editor 59
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