Frances Henderson is a director and editor of documentary films. As a director, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” after screening her documentary Lessons for the Living at festivals around the world. Her short film Dying and Dinner Parties premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Her most recent film This Much We Know, based on the book About a Mountain by John D’agata, was supported with grants from Cinereach and The Jerome Foundation, screened at CIFF, DocNYC, Big Sky Film Festival and is being distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Her editing work includes the ITVS supported documentary film For Ahkeem which had its world premiere at the 2017 Berlinale and US premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, now available through Hulu, Crescendo! which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award. Shut Up and Paint which was short listed for an Academy Award and One Good Reason, which won Best Short Documentary and Best Social Impact film at Tribeca X Awards.
She has been a curator of film screenings at UnionDocs, a community center for documentary arts in Brooklyn, and has served as an organizer of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective for more than ten years. She has taught at the International Center for Photography and as an Assistant Professor at The New School in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn with her immensely talented partner and cinematographer Ed David and their twin boys.
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