Madeleine Gavin

Personal Info

Know For

Editing

Gender

Female

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

-

Madeleine Gavin

Biography

Madeleine Gavin is an American documentary director, editor, and producer. She is primarily an editor in narrative and documentary film. Madeleine’s work on Rebecca Cammisa’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Which Way Home earned her an Emmy nomination. She and Cammisa recently completed the HBO documentary Atomic Homefront. Madeleine directed the Netflix Original Documentary City of Joy, which follows the first class of students at a revolutionary leadership centre in a war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Acting

Production

2004

Mean Creek

as Editor

1996

Passion

as Post Production Supervisor

2013

2001

Manic

as Editor

2012

The Details

as Editor

2014

Song One

as Editor

2014

Match

as Editor

2015

Meadowland

as Editor

2023

Beyond Utopia

as Writer

2016

City of Joy

as Writer

2018

2017

2016

House of Z

as Editor

2009

2008

The Caller

as Editor

2007

2006

2023

Beyond Utopia

as Second Unit Director of Photography

2023

Beyond Utopia

as Archival Footage Research

2016

City of Joy

as Additional Camera

2008

The Business of Being Born

as Additional Photography

2011

The Future

as Additional Editor

2004

Mondovino

as Consulting Editor

2000

Losing the Thread

as Consulting Editor

1991

Highway Patrolman

as Writers' Assistant

2001

Signs & Wonders

as Second Unit Director

2016

Nerve

as Editor

2016

2023

Beyond Utopia

as Director

2016

City of Joy

as Director

2016

City of Joy

as Editor

2023

Beyond Utopia

as Editor

2009

Beloved

as Editor

2019

Luce

as Editor

2017

2001

2015

Mother

as Editor

2006

Nearing Grace

as Editor

1997

Sunday

as Editor

2008

Sleep Dealer

as Editor

2025

Atropia

as Editor

© All Rights Reserved 2025