About

Kate Hackett, ACE is a documentary and narrative film editor living in Los Angeles. Her most recent film was the A24 produced and Netflix released documentary Open Wide.

She is an Emmy recipient and ACE Eddie Award winner for her editing work on the Netflix documentary series Cheer. She also worked as an editor on seasons four and five of the Emmy winning Netflix documentary series Last Chance U, and on the Netflix documentary series D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?!

Other feature films she has edited include Amy Adrion’s documentary Half The Picture (Sundance, SXSW), and Christopher Kahunahana’s Sundance Institute supported narrative film Waikiki, which was released theatrically and is streaming on all platforms.

She was the 2018 Sundance Institute Sally Menke Editing Fellow.

She is a member of the Motion Picture Editor’s Guild, IATSE Local 700, and is fluent in Spanish.