Hannah Buck is an award winning film editor with a focus on creative non-fiction and experimental forms. Her background in visual arts largely informs her approach to editing. Her work has screened at museums and festivals all over the world, including Sundance, Berlinale, CPHdox, MoMA, and Tate Modern.

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Recent editing credits include Rowan Haber's We Are Pat (Tribeca 2025) Lana Wilson's Look Into My Eyes (Sundance 2024) for which she was nominated a Cinema Eye award for editing; Penny Lane's Confessions of a Good Samaritan (SXSW 2023) for which she won the Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Editing Award; Invisible Beauty (Sundance 2023) directed by Bethann Hardison and Frédéric Tcheng; Searchers (Sundance 2021) directed by Pacho Velez. 

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Earlier credits include Vision Portraits (SXSW 2019) directed by Rodney Evans; The Proposal (Tribeca 2018) directed by Jill Magid and executive produced by Laura Poitras; Chef Flynn (Sundance 2018) directed by Cameron Yates, and Chico Colvard's Black Memorabilia (MoMA Doc Fortnight 2018);​ Memories of a Penitent Heart (POV, 2017), directed by Cecilia Aldarondo, Terence Nance's documentary series Triptych (PBS, 2015), and Nance's acclaimed debut feature, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (Sundance, 2012).

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Hannah has served as consulting editor on multiple projects including Sundance grand jury prize winner I Didn't See You There (2021), and The American Sector (Berlinale 2020). In addition to this she has been a consultant for organizations and programs such as the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Program, Field of Vision, and Union Docs Labs. 

 

Hannah has been a fellow at the Sundance Edit and Story Lab, The Macdowell Colony, IFP Film Program, and the Sundance Documentary Program.