Avid Artist: Inbal Lessner, ACE

Inbal B. Lessner, ACE, is a twice Emmy-nominated and Eddie-winning producer/editor, known for Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, Brave Miss World, Stormy, and Victim/Suspect. On Escaping Twin Flames, which she co-created with her filmmaking partner Cecilia Peck, she takes on the roles of executive producer, showrunner, and editor. This three-part documentary series, which premiered on Netflix last November, follows the story of a seemingly innocuous online school for love whose leaders coerce their followers into changing genders.

Inbal’s editing credits include I Have Never Forgotten You, about Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, and NAACP Image Award nominee The Two Killings of Sam Cooke. Inbal edited and co-produced The Movies: The Golden Age, executive produced by Tom Hanks. It was the pinnacle of a 5-year collaboration with the producers of CNN's Emmy-nominated Decades series, which yielded an ACE Award nomination for “The Nineties: Can We All Get Along.”

Inbal has worked in the cutting rooms of directors such as Davis Guggenheim, R.J. Cutler, Sarah Gibson, Nancy Schwartzman, Kelly Duane, Tricia Regan, Jeremy Simmons, and Tracy Droz Tragos, as well as Natalie Portman's feature directorial debut.