Mimi Wilcox is an ACE Eddie award-winning documentary editor & filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She honed her documentary skills working at renowned documentary production company Kartemquin Films, which instilled in her a deep understanding of documentary ethics and storytelling that she brings to every project she cuts.
Mimi most recently edited the 3-part Netflix docuseries ESCAPING TWIN FLAMES (2023), for which she won an American Cinema Editors Eddie award. She co-edited Kartemquin Films' feature documentary THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE (Showtime, SXSW 2020). She edited the 4-part docuseries LET US PREY (ID/MAX 2023) and the feature documentaries WITH THIS LIGHT (Winner, Documentary Feature Jury Award at Austin Film Festival 2022) and HEAD TO HEAD (Heartland Film Festival 2020). Other credits include the award-winning short documentary MnM (CPH:DOX 2023), MR. GELE (Cleveland International Film Festival), CONCRETE DREAMS (RIDE Channel), and UNINSURABLE (Upworthy).
Mimi was a 2022-2023 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow. She is a member of the Alliance of Documentary Editors and serves on the Membership Committee. She was a resident of the 2019 Points North Institute Shortform Editing Residency with her film BAD HOSTAGE (formerly THE SEBASTOPOL SIEGE), which has also been supported by the Kartemquin Films Emerging Storytellers Fund and The Film Fund. Her first short film, ALPHA MARE, was a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick. She also co-produced the award-winning Oscars longlisted documentary short HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A PANDEMIC (Tribeca Film Festival 2021).
Mimi was born and raised in Northern California and before moving to Brooklyn spent a decade living in Chicago. She is usually fostering a dog or a cat and is a Brandi Carlile and boygenius superfan. She has a BA in Economics and Russian from the University of Chicago, and is conversational in Spanish and Russian.
EMAIL maewilcox@gmail.com
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