Nels Bangerter
Personal Info
Known for
Editing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1978-01-01 (47 years old)
Place of Birth
Oakland, California
Nels Bangerter
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.
Known For
Crew
(2025)
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Editor, Co-Writer
(2023)
32 Sounds
Editor
(2022)
Riotsville, USA
Editor
(2021)
Arctic Summer
Editorial Consultant
(2020)
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Writer, Editor
(2019)
The Hottest August
Editor
(2019)
Border South
Consulting Editor
(2018)
Exit Music
Editor
(2018)
Jaddoland
Consulting Producer
(2016)
Project X
Editor
(2016)
Cameraperson
Editor
(2016)
Unseen
Writer
(2015)
You See Me
Editor
(2015)
The Above
Editor
(2014)
A Place in the Middle
Editor
(2014)
Kumu Hina
Editor
(2013)
Let the Fire Burn
Editor
(2012)
Buzkashi Boys
Editor
(2009)
Out in the Silence
Editor
(2008)
War Child
Editor
(2006)
Cine Manifest
Producer, Editor