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Margaret Metzger
(She/Her)
Documentary editorMargaret (Meg) Metzger is a documentary editor.
Full Bio
Margaret (Meg) Metzger is a documentary editor with a decade of experience working in the documentary field. Her award-winning credits include shorts, features, and television, spanning vérité, hosted, and archival-driven projects.
Meg studied philosophy at Brown University and began her career in Athens, Greece. She worked in film and publishing in Athens, becoming fluent in the language, before moving to New York in 2012 to concentrate on documentary filmmaking. In 2015, she transitioned from research and production roles to editing. Meg was a participant in the Karen Schmeer Foundation’s Diversity in the Edit Room program in 2018-2019, with mentors Mary Manhardt and Aljernon Tunsil. In January 2020, she was the Artist-in-Residence at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.
Meg studied philosophy at Brown University and began her career in Athens, Greece. She worked in film and publishing in Athens, becoming fluent in the language, before moving to New York in 2012 to concentrate on documentary filmmaking. In 2015, she transitioned from research and production roles to editing. Meg was a participant in the Karen Schmeer Foundation’s Diversity in the Edit Room program in 2018-2019, with mentors Mary Manhardt and Aljernon Tunsil. In January 2020, she was the Artist-in-Residence at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY.
- Professional Credits
- Monty (2018) Director & Editor
Documentary short
Jill Soloway Millie Dresselhaus Judaline Cassidy Debra Messing Eva Longoria (2017) Editor
Profiles for the MAKERS series
OJ Simpson: Made in America (2016) Archival Researcher
Winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary
Bush v. Gore (2016) Researcher
Short documentary for Retro Report/The New York Times
Runaway Plane (2016) Researcher
Short documentary for Retro Report/The New York Times
Edison (2015) Researcher
Documentary for American Experience
The Big Burn (2015) Researcher
Documentary for American Experience
1964 (2014) Researcher
Documentary for American Experience
Constitution USA with Peter Sagal (2013) Production Assistant
Documentary for Twin Cities Public Television
- Industry Awards
- Jacob Burns Creative Culture award at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, 2018, for Monty
- Other Professional Groups
- Alliance of Documentary Editors; Karen Schmeer Foundation
- NYWIFT Committees
- Moms Network
- Content Types
- Documentary
- Occupations
- Editor: Film/Video
- Business Types
- Post-Production
- Countries Worked In
- Greece
- Foreign Languages Spoken
- Greek
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