Editor, Story Crafter, Filmmaker. Showing humanity a better world, one story at a time.
About
Heidi Zimmerman is a freelance film editor with over 15 years of experience editing and producing feature documentaries and non-fiction promotional pieces. She tells stories that stoke empathy, explores humanity's flaws and potentials, and inspire change. Heidi cut her first documentary "40 Years of Silence" under the tutelage of Academy Award winning film editor, Pietro Scalia. She has gone on to work on a wide range of feature projects like "Alive and Kicking" nominated for a Grand Jury Award at 2016 SXSW and "Fish and Men" winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2019 New Hampshire Film Festival. Her most recent film "Black Barbie: A Documentary" premiered at SXSW in 2023, was acquired by Shondaland and released by Netflix in 2024, and was nominated for Best Documentary Television 2025 NAACP Image Award.
