Malinda Zehner Guerra

Primetime Emmy winner

Malinda Zehner Guerra, ACE is an Emmy-winning picture editor, celebrated for shaping a variety of visual stories across television and film. She most notably received an Emmy win and an ACE Eddie nomination for her work on HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, working alongside an all-female editing team for Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming on the episode, "My Love Language Is Words Of Defamation." Malinda has three previous Emmy nominations for her editing work on VH1’s RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, A&E’s Born This Way, and Discovery’s Naked & Afraid XL. Other recent highlights include the acclaimed "Daphne" episode of American Horror Stories, as well as the forthcoming feature film Drag, starring Lizzy Caplan and premiering at SXSW in March of 2026. Starting her career as an actor, Malinda discovered her calling as an editor and has continued to ascend in the competitive industry ranks. Drawing on her performance roots, she immerses herself in each character, working to find the performance or cut that best brings the story to life on screen and fulfills the showrunner or director’s vision. Just as Michelangelo felt his job as a sculptor was to liberate the creation from the stone, Malinda sees her role as an editor in the same light. She works to find the nuances of a performance that can really add to the subtext and emotional life of the character. With a passion for socially aware projects, Malinda finds herself taking on timely issues and bringing new voices to the world with her work. Malinda’s other credits include Third Wheel Material, which was an official selection at the American Black Film Festival, the Pan African Film Festival, and the Micheau Film Festival. Her previous credits also include E’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Hulu’s Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and Discovery's Portals To Hell. A graduate of The College of William & Mary, Malinda is currently based in Los Angeles, CA.

What are Malinda Zehner Guerra's films like?

Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight

Survival

30%

Bonds

28%

Self

22%

Society

18%

Morality

2%

Survival4 Ambition3 Community4 Trauma2 Romantic love2 Family bonds2 Loyalty2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

5

Joyful

3

Warm

3

Hopeful

3

Absurd

2

Other

6

How their films linger

Fun5 Feel-good4 Unsettling4 Hopeful2

How their films end · 1 with a twist

Happy2
Bittersweet3
Ambiguous3
Cyclical1

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 Malinda Zehner Guerra's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 6 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

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Subscription and free streaming for Malinda Zehner Guerra'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, 10 with a MovieCove page.

Drag(2026)
Editor
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Naked and Afraid: Global Showdown(2026)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all shows
American Horror Stories(2021)
Show 1 episode · Editor
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all shows
Naked and Afraid of Love(2021)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
White Elephant(2020)
Editor
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
4/20 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Editor
Nightwatch Nation(2018)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
The Gary Owen Show(2016)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Born This Way(2015)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Dash Dolls(2015)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
Cursed(2012)
Show Editor
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all shows

Career shape

A full career of 4 titles, 3 of them dated from 2020 to 2021.

Highest rated

Drag (2026)

Midcredits 97^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Editing4 of 4

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

Awards

a Primetime Emmy from 4 major nominations, 2016–2023.

WinNomination

2023
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
2019
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program
2016
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality 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.

Who does Malinda Zehner Guerra work with?

People who share at least 2 of Malinda Zehner Guerra's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Dan Zimmerman shares the most, 3.