Claire Ave’Lallemant (she/her)

Claire is an Emmy-nominated queer documentary editor from Charlotte, North Carolina who chose to forgo the traditional college path in favor of a grassroots, hands-on education, beginning as an assistant editor on Cecilia Aldarondo’s MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART (POV). She credits the film with showing her the power of the medium to reach hearts and change minds—and has been in love with documentaries ever since.

After assisting on several films, Claire was selected for the 2018 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship and has gone on to edit features such as FLIPSIDE (Toronto) and DROWNING IN SILENCE (Santa Barbara); series including CHOIR (Tribeca, Disney+), DOGS (Netflix), and THE PHARMACIST (Netflix); as well as shorts like FINAL FINISHERS (ESPN+, 2025 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Sports Documentary Short). She was awarded the Sundance Institute’s 2025 Documentary Edit Residency for forthcoming feature doc VESTIBULE recognized for “embracing new forms of storytelling and finding new language to express personal truths.”