Claire Ave’Lallemant is a queer documentary editor who chose to forgo the traditional college path and pursue grassroots, hands-on education which she received as an assistant editor on Cecilia Aldarondo’s Memories of a Penitent Heart. In 2018, after assisting on several features, Claire was nominated for the inaugural year of Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship’s Diversity In The Edit Room mentorship. She has gone on to edit documentary series such as Choir, which was nominated for IDA’s Best Limited Series in 2024 as well as The Pharmacist and DOGS. Her recent feature projects include Flipsid and Drowning in Silence. She has been asked to serve on the juries for IDA’s Best Editing and Best Feature categories as well as Charlotte Film Festival’s Best Documentary and was selected for the inaugural Nonfiction Hotlist with the forthcoming feature, Vestibule. Considering herself to be a storyteller first and foremost, Claire believes editing documentaries is inherently writing and focuses on projects which aim to bring more compassion into this challenging world.