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.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Editor, also producer
- 6 on MovieCove · 11 credits in all
Known for
What are Arielle Amsalem's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 4
Light 2 · Serious 2 · Dark 0
Grounded 4 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 4 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet2
- Ambiguous1
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 Arielle Amsalem's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Arielle Amsalem'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
11 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page.
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Paint Me a Road Out of Here (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Black and Missing(2021)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all shows
We Are the Radical Monarchs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Awake, a Dream from Standing Rock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Making Space: 5 Women Changing the Face of Architecture (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 6 titles from 2009 to 2024.
Awards
Won a Primetime Emmy in 2010, Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming.
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 Arielle Amsalem's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 68th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th3
- 25th to 49th2
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 6 titles are Mixed.
- Divisive2
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed3
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 Arielle Amsalem work with?
People who share at least 2 of Arielle Amsalem's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Geeta Gandbhir shares the most, 4.
Directors
- Geeta GandbhirShared titles: Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025), Masaka Kids: A Rhythm Within (2025), Black and Missing (2021), By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009)See all 4 shared titles with Geeta Gandbhir
- Samantha M. KnowlesShared titles: Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025), Black and Missing (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Samantha M. Knowles
Producers
- Imani JohnsonShared titles: Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025), Black and Missing (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Imani Johnson
- Sam PollardShared titles: Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025), By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Sam Pollard
