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.