Maya Hawke

Maya Daisy Hawke is a film editor and experimental filmmaker. She is best known for her work on documentaries, including the award-winning features Navalny and Sugarcane (2024), and has been a long-term collaborator with director Werner Herzog, working as an assistant editor on multiple Herzog films and as a co-editor on Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010).

Career Hawke has edited feature-length documentaries, documentary series, and commercials, including for Apple, and has edited documentary series for the BBC.

She was co-editor on the documentary Navalny, with director Daniel Roher crediting her and Langdon Page with shaping a complex story into a digestible film.

In 2024 she edited Sugarcane, which won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. She is married to fellow film editor Joe Bini.

Selected filmography Editor Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) – co-editor Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015) – editor Freedom Fields (2018) – editor Moon Landing Live (2019) – editor Navalny (2022) – editor Sugarcane (2024) – editor

Supervising / consulting editor After a Revolution (2022) – supervising editor Joonam (2023) – supervising editor Black Box Diaries (2024) – supervising / consulting editor A Photographic Memory (2024) – supervising editor

Memberships Hawke is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.