Lindsay Utz
Lindsay Utz is an award-winning director, producer, and editor who has worked on some of the most high-profile documentaries of the last decade, including editing the 2020 Academy Award-winning American Factory. She most recently premiered her directorial debut Prime Minister, about the former PM of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern, at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award. In 2023 she produced the first documentary out of Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity, which premiered at number one on Amazon Prime in February 2024. Her other editing credits include Martha (2024), the Oscar-shortlisted Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry (2021), Miss Americana (2020), and Quest (2018), a ten-year vérité portrait of a Black Philadelphia family, which was nominated for both Emmy and Peabody Awards. Her work has screened at major festivals around the world, and has been included in prestigious archives such as the MoMA film library and The Criterion Collection. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and American Cinema Editors (ACE).