Sandrine Isambert is an Emmy Award-nominated documentary editor based in New York City. She has over 20 years of experience working in nonfiction. Her work has been shown in theaters and at film festivals like Sundance, DOC NYC, Human Rights Watch, Rotterdam, or Locarno, on major streaming platforms such as HBO and Apple TV+, and networks like PBS, NBC, MSNBC, Discovery Channel, A&E, BRAVO, and the History Channel. Sandrine recently edited a documentary directed by John Maggio for Apple TV+ and an episode of EYES ON THE PRIZE III: WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM CANNOT REST for HBO, directed by Academy Award-nominated Smriti Mundhra and with acclaimed filmmaker Dawn Porter as series director. The next installment of the landmark civil rights series documents the ongoing struggle for freedom, racial justice, and equity in the U.S. She is one of the editors of the feature documentary HARLEY FLANAGAN: WIRED FOR CHAOS which will premiere at DOC NYC in November 2024. She edited an episode of LINCOLN'S DILEMMA for Apple TV+, directed by Barak Goodman, the 4-part series takes a critical look at Abraham Lincoln as the "great emancipator" by examining the crucial role freed and enslaved black men and women played, before and during his presidency, in ending slavery in the United States. Some of Sandrine's feature documentary credits include PERSONS OF INTEREST which competed at Sundance about Arab or Muslim immigrants taken into custody by the justice department after 9/11 and held in custody indefinitely on the grounds of national security. MEN OF THE CLOTH, about "old world" master tailors, premiered at DOC NYC and screened worldwide, receiving an Audience Award at the Three River Film Festival. Sandrine has editing credits for AMERICAN PROMISE which won a jury award at Sundance and an Emmy nomination for outstanding editing. She was one of the core editors at RETRO REPORT, an independent documentary news organization that "re-examines, revisits, old news stories" and uses investigative journalism and narrative storytelling to critically examine the effect of past news coverage on media and culture today. While working there, she was nominated for two Emmy Awards, including one for outstanding editing for CEASEFIRE, a documentary that looks back at communities that worked together to end gang violence in Boston in the late 1980s. Sandrine started her career at WITNESS, a human rights organization co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel, where she edited documentaries and trained activists on how to use video in their advocacy work effectively. While at Witness, she edited OPERATION FINE GIRL, with Academy Award-nominated director Lilibet Forster, about rape used as a weapon of war during the ten-year civil war in Sierra Leone, and BEHIND THE LABELS, with Academy Award-nominated director Tia Lessin looks at indenture servitude in the garment industry on the U.S. territory of Saipan. Sandrine grew up in France where she studied film and architecture before moving to New York City.