Love + War
National Geographic, 2025
Co-Editor, with Keiko Deguchi. Directed by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Executive Produced by Carolyn Bernstein, Tim Horsburgh
“…a film that’s emotional, exhilarating, and essential, photographers capturing a photographer, game recognizing game, with highly skilled filmmakers finding another perfect subject in this internationally renowned photographer.” - Next Best Picture
Wild Wild Space
HBO, 2024
Editor. Directed by Ross Kauffman, Executive Produced by Amblin Entertainment, Hyperobject Industries + Zero Point Zero Productions.
“…a beautiful film in terms of its aesthetics and affection for the machinery and people…a cautionary tale about the cluttering of space, and the pursuit not just of profit but power…” - Wall Street Journal
It Was All A Dream
Tribeca, 2024
Consulting Editor. Directed by dream hampton.
“Though the film promises never-before-seen footage of hip-hop greats, It Was All A Dream is really a nostalgic, nascent Trojan horse, one that shows the important, imperfect, initial seed-sowing of the deeper questions we’re still tilling as a hip-hop culture today.” -NPR
Ladies First
Netflix, 2023
Editor. Directed by dream hampton, Hannah Beachler, Giselle Bailey, Raeshem Nijhon. Executive Produced by MC Lyte.
“The astonishing thing about the documentary is that it doesn't simply retell history; it uses hip-hop as a way to discuss complex and critical issues that Black women face not only in the music industry, but in American culture at large.” -Common Sense Media
Growing Up
Disney+, 2022
Editor. Directed by Elegance Bratton, Ekwa Msangi, Smriti Mundhra, Yara Shahidi, Brie Larson, Nicole Galovski, Sydney Freeland, Ashley Eakin, Bernardo Ruiz, Rudy Valdez.
An innovative hybrid docu-series that explores the challenges, triumphs and complexities of adolescence through ten incredible coming of age stories using narrative, experimental, and documentary filmmaking.
Emmy Nominee: Outstanding Writing
Of Medicine and Miracles
Tribeca, 2022
Editor. Directed by Ross Kauffman, Executive Produced by Sean Parker.
“a tale that’s both fascinating and moving. Most of all, it’s a film unafraid to speak of cancer in all its insidiousness and fascinating aspect, whispering no longer as novel tools are used in ways that only a few years ago would have been thought of as nothing less than miraculous.” - POV
Tigerland
Discovery, 2019
Co-Editor, with Keiko Deguchi. Directed by Ross Kauffman.
“Harrowing and Essential Doc Follows Tigers and Those Fighting For Their Survival” - Indiewire
Nominee: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
The Age of Consequences
Starz, 2016
Editor, Directed by Jared Scott.
A feature documentary film investigating how the relationship between climate disruption and conflict will become the predominant force shaping the social, political, and economic world of the 21st century.
Emmy Nominee: Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary

Hypatia Porter is an Emmy-nominated documentary film editor whose work has premiered at Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, DOC NYC, Hot Docs and DC/DOX and can be found on HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Starz, Discovery and Nat Geo.