Mimi Wilcox is an Oscar®-shortlisted, Emmy-nominated and ACE Eddie award-winning editor & filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She honed her skills working at renowned 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 edited the 3-part Netflix docuseries REALITY CHECK: INSIDE AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL (2026) and ESCAPING TWIN FLAMES (2023), for which she won an American Cinema Editors Eddie award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. She edited the 4-part true crime series THE FOX HOLLOW MURDERS (Hulu/ABC Studios 2025) and LET US PREY (ID/MAX 2023). Mimi co-edited Kartemquin Films' feature documentary THE DILEMMA OF DESIRE (Showtime, SXSW 2020) and edited the feature documentaries WITH THIS LIGHT (Winner, Documentary Feature Jury Award at Austin Film Festival 2022) and HEAD TO HEAD (Heartland Film Festival 2020). In short-form, she edited the award-winning short documentary MnM (CPH:DOX 2023, Criterion/PBS POV) for Multitude Films’ Queer Futures series, as well as Park Pictures’ IT’S DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS (HotDocs 2025).
Mimi directed, produced and edited the mid-length documentary BAD HOSTAGE (Sheffield DocFest 2024), which was shortlisted for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short and the International Documentary Association Best Documentary Short Award. Her first short film, ALPHA MARE, was a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick. She also co-produced and shot the award-winning Oscar-qualifying documentary short HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A PANDEMIC (Tribeca 2021). Her corporate clients have included Shure Inc. and Sotheby’s.
Mimi was a participant of the 2026 Berlinale Talents Edit Studio and 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 born and raised in Northern California and before moving to Brooklyn spent a decade living in Chicago. Mimi is usually fostering a dog or a cat and is a Brandi Carlile superfan. She has a BA in Economics and Russian from the University of Chicago, and is conversational in Spanish and Russian.
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