Arielle Amsalem

Arielle Amsalem is an Emmy Award winning editor of feature length documentary films. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts film program, where she apprenticed under the editor Sam Pollard, Arielle started her career working on Spike Lee's award winning documentary "When the Levees Broke" (2006), a film about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She has since been the editor of several feature documentaries including the Edward Norton produced HBO documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama" (2009) for which she won the Primetime Emmy for Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming. More recently, Arielle edited "The Education of Dee Dee Ricks" (2011) which was bought and aired by HBO, "Comedy Warriors" (2013) which aired on Showtime, and the PBS documentary mini-series "Coming Back with Wes Moore" (2014). Arielle has also worked on television shows for MTV, the Food Network, The Cooking Channel and Travel Channel.