Lindsay Utz

Lindsay Utz is a two-time Emmy Award winning documentary film director, Academy Award-winning editor, and producer. She is best known for her work on American Factory, Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, and Prime Minister.

Life and career Lindsay was born in 1981 in Park Ridge, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2003 with a B.A. in Media Studies. From 2006 to 2009, she was Executive Producer at Good Magazine, where she ran the video department. She broke into feature-length documentary editing with 2011's Bully. Additional editing credits include Quest (2017), Miss Americana (2020), and Martha (2024), among others. She was supervising editor and producer on the Jennifer Lopez documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told (2024). In 2025, she co-directed Prime Minister, a documentary about former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern, which won the World Documentary Audience Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival as well as Emmys for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary and Best Documentary at the 2026 Emmy Awards. In 2025, she launched documentary production company Win Win Pictures with music supervisor and producer Margaret Yen. She is represented by United Talent Agency.

Lindsay is a member of American Cinema Editors and the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Filmography YearTitleCredited asNote Editor Director 2009 Good: Internet Censorship Documentary; co-director 2011 Bully Documentary 2012 Op-Docs 1 Episode 2012 Buoy Feature film 2014 In Country Documentary 2015–2016 Frontline 2 Episodes 2017 Quest Documentary 2019 American Factory Documentary; also, camera 2019 Contaminated Memories Short film 2020 Miss Americana Documentary 2021 Since You Arrived, My Heart Stopped Belonging to Me Documentary; consulting editor 2021 Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry Documentary 2022 Civil: Ben Crump Documentary 2024 Martha Documentary 2025 Prime Minister Documentary; co-director

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