Claire Didier is a Los Angeles-based film editor focusing on the documentary experience. She has been editing documentary films and television since 1999.

 

Born and raised in Minnesota, she moved to Italy at 17, working at an orphanage in Bologna and later moving to Rome.  Her experiences shaped her interest in human stories and social justice. A 1998 graduate of the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor, she earned a degree from the Residential College in a field of her making she called "History Through Spectacle." The major combined her interest in history with performance, film, and popular spectacle. She spent 6 months studying in East Java, Indonesia, where the tradition of shadow puppetry is used to educate and discuss current and past events.  Drawn to filmmaking, she cut her teeth editing on the new AVIDs that the U of M had acquired in the mid-1990's.

 

Most of her work on documentary films has screened at festivals around the world, including: BRANDY HELLVILLE & THE CULT OF FAST FASHION (2024 SXSW premiere), ROCK HUDSON: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWED (2023 Tribeca premiere), ON THE DIVIDE (2021 Tribeca premiere), BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE (2020 Sundance premiere), SID & JUDY (2019 Frameline premiere, Outfest, and London Film Festivals, Winner "Best Use of Footage in an Arts Production" 2020 FOCAL Intl Awards) IF I LEAVE HERE TOMORROW: A FILM ABOUT LYNYRD SKYNYRD (2018 SXSW premiere), THE OTHER SHORE: THE DIANA NYAD STORY (2013 SXSW premiere, HotDocs), WILDNESS (2012 MOMA Doc Fortnight, Whitney Biennial, Tate Modern, SXSW, HotDocs), THE SOURCE FAMILY (2012 SXSW, HotDocs, Pop Montreal), THUNDER SOUL (Nominated for 2012 NAACP Image Award, 2011 Independent Spirit Award, IDA Music Documentary Award, Winner of 8 Audience Awards for Best Documentary-- including SXSW, Hot Docs, Los Angeles Film Festival), and THE RESTORATION OF JOHN CASSAVETES' "SHADOWS" (for Criterion Collection's Cassevetes Box Set)--which she directed and edited.

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