Sandrine Isambert is an Emmy Award-nominated documentary editor based in New York City, with over 20 years of experience working in nonfiction. Her work has been shown in theaters and at film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, DOC NYC, Human Rights Watch, Rotterdam, and Locarno. Additionally, her projects have been featured on major streaming platforms like HBO and Apple TV+, and networks including PBS, NBC, MSNBC, Discovery Channel, A&E, BRAVO, and the History Channel. Sandrine edited an episode of EYES ON THE PRIZE III: WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM CANNOT REST for HBO, directed by Academy Award-nominated Smriti Mundhra and series director Dawn Porter. This installment of the landmark civil rights series documents the ongoing struggle for freedom, racial justice, and equity in the U.S. She also edited the short documentary EXODUS, directed by Nimco Sheikhaden, which premiered at SXSW 2025. It is an intimate portrait of two women facing challenges following decades of incarceration. Sandrine edited a documentary directed by John Maggio for Apple TV+ and contributed to the feature documentary HARLEY FLANAGAN: WIRED FOR CHAOS, which premiered at DOC NYC 2024 and screened at SLAMDANCE 2025 with a theatrical release scheduled for June 2025. She edited an episode of LINCOLN'S DILEMMA for Apple TV+, directed by Barak Goodman, the four-part series takes a critical look at Abraham Lincoln as the "great emancipator" by examining the crucial role that freed and enslaved black men and women played in ending slavery in the United States before and during his presidency. Some of Sandrine's feature documentary credits include PERSONS OF INTEREST, which competed at Sundance about Arab or Muslim immigrants taken into custody by the justice department after 9/11 and held in custody indefinitely on the grounds of national security. MEN OF THE CLOTH, about "old world" master tailors, premiered at DOC NYC and screened worldwide, receiving an Audience Award at the Three River Film Festival. Sandrine has editing credits for AMERICAN PROMISE, which won a jury award at Sundance and an Emmy nomination for outstanding editing. She was one of the core editors at RETRO REPORT, an independent documentary news organization that "re-examines, revisits, old news stories" and uses investigative journalism and narrative storytelling to critically examine the effect of past news coverage on media and culture today. While working there, she was nominated for two Emmy Awards, including one for outstanding editing for CEASEFIRE, a documentary that looks back at communities that worked together to end gang violence in Boston in the late 1980s. Sandrine started her career at WITNESS, a human rights organization co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel, where she edited documentaries and trained activists on how to use video in their advocacy work effectively. While at Witness, she edited OPERATION FINE GIRL, with Academy Award-nominated director Lilibet Forster, about rape used as a weapon of war during the ten-year civil war in Sierra Leone, and BEHIND THE LABELS, with Academy Award-nominated director Tia Lessin looks at indenture servitude in the garment industry on the U.S. territory of Saipan. Sandrine grew up in France, where she studied film and architecture before moving to New York City.