Avid Artist: Mimi Wilcox

Mimi Wilcox is an Emmy-nominated and ACE Eddie Award-winning documentary 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. She most recently directed and edited the documentary Bad Hostage (2024), which premiered at Sheffield DocFest. Her first short film, Alpha Mare, was a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick.

As an editor, Mimi's credits include the 3-part Netflix docuseries Escaping Twin Flames (2023), for which she won an American Cinema Editors Eddie award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy. 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) and How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic (Tribeca 2021), which she co-produced. She was a Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow and serves on the Membership Committee of the Alliance of Documentary Editors.