Lindsay Utz

Lindsay Utz is an award-winning editor who has worked on some of the most high- profile documentaries of the last decade, including the 2020 Academy Award winner American Factory. Prime Minister is her feature directorial debut.Her other editing credits include Martha (2024), Civil (2022), the Oscar-shortlisted Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry (2021), Miss Americana (2020), Quest (2017), In Country (2014), and Bully (2011). Quest, one of four films she has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for both Emmy and Peabody Awards, and won the Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Editing. She has been nominated for every major editing award in her field, including Primetime Emmy nominations for her work on both American Factory and Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry. In 2023 she produced the first documentary out of Ben Affleck’s newly-formed company Artists Equity, which premiered at number one on Amazon Prime in February 2024. She is currently building her own company, Win Win Pictures, which has multiple projects at various stages of production and development. Her work has screened at major festivals around the world, and has been included in prestigious archives such as the MoMA film library and The Criterion Collection. She is a member of the Documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and American Cinema Editors. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.