Monique Zavistovski, ACE, was raised by two classical musicians on the edge of New York's Sleepy Hollow woods. Over the course of her career, she has edited over 40 documentaries and short films, and her work has won awards worldwide. As the editor on Will & Harper (2025), Monique is the recipient of an ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary Film. Will & Harper also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, won a Peabody Award and the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature, was nominated for a BAFTA and five Emmy awards, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. That same year Monique also edited The Only Girl In The Orchestra, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film and the Critics Choice Award. Her other work includes Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Sundance, Winner Audience Award SXSW, 2019), The Wraith of Cobble Hill (Winner Sundance Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking, Academy Awards Shortlist, 2006), The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club (Emmy Winner Outstanding Historical Film), The Light In Her Eyes (Sundance Film Forward), Limited Partnership (Winner IDA Humanitas Award), CITY 40 (Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Investigative Documentary), and They Call Me Magic. Monique graduated with an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California and holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-author of Children and Fish Don't Talk: Adventures with Nazis, Communists and the Metropolitan Opera, and is also a proud member of American Cinema Editors.
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Biography from IMDb.
- New York City, New York, USA
- Editor and writer, also producer
- 11 on MovieCove · 15 credits in all
What are Monique Zavistovski's films like?
Across their 11 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 10
A split, not a type: Light 4 · Serious 3 · Dark 3
Grounded 9 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 5 · Charged 4 · Intense 1
Steady 7 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 2
Slow burn 10 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 6 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 6 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 3
Resolved 9 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet6
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Monique Zavistovski's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Monique Zavistovski's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
15 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page.
Playing POTUS (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Will & Harper(2024)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Saving Jones (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
They Call Me Magic(2022)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
Stars and Strife(2020)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
The American Meme(2018)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Served Like a Girl(2017)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Life After Manson (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Limited Partnership(2014)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
The Light in Her Eyes(2011)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Career shape
A full career of 10 titles from 2004 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (2019)
Highest rated
Will & Harper (2024)
Most popular right now
They Call Me Magic (2022)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
Nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2025, Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Monique Zavistovski's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 76th percentile, the median of all 10; across their 10 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 81st percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th4
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 11 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Loved with Detractors1
- Divisive2
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the pacing 59/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles; fans 67, detractors 33. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Monique Zavistovski work with?
People who share at least 2 of Monique Zavistovski's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Tchavdar Georgiev shares the most, 3.
Writers
- Tchavdar GeorgievShared titles: Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man (2019), The American Meme (2018), Served Like a Girl (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Tchavdar Georgiev
Composers and cinematographers
- Nathan HalpernShared titles: Will & Harper (2024), Abortion: Stories Women Tell (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Nathan Halpern
- Zoë WhiteShared titles: Will & Harper (2024), They Call Me Magic (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Zoë White
Producers
- Chris LeggettShared titles: Will & Harper (2024), They Call Me Magic (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Leggett
- Rafael MarmorShared titles: Will & Harper (2024), They Call Me Magic (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Rafael Marmor
