ABOUT – Meg Sims

BIO

Meghan Sims is an award-winning editor and filmmaker who seeks to close the gaps separating fiction and nonfiction, narrative and abstraction.

She got her start on the ground floor at VICE in its early days of expanding into a multimedia production company and agency. While there, she worked on what became the Emmy-winning HBO investigative news series, “VICE News Tonight” and feature documentary, The Ride, which showed at MoMA and SXSW Film Festival in 2010.

In 2012, she led the digital campaign for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, cutting more than 40 portraits of survivors of gun violence as MAIG lobbied for national legislative reform. Her short film, “We Do Too,” won Best Documentary at the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Scene: Brooklyn film showcase that same year.

Her feature film credts include BIG STAR: Nothing Can Hurt Me, (Official Selection, 2012 SXSW Film Festival), distributed by Magnolia Pictures, as well as Tickling Giants (Official Selection, 2016 TriBeCa Film Festival) as an assistant editor. She assisted Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) and editor Melody London (Stranger Than Paradise, Heart of a Dog) on Poitras’ latest feature, RISK, about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2016. In September 2019 she was profiled in industry publication, Shots magazine’s “On My Radar” section. This November, she was proud to serve as a juror for the Shots Awards Europe’s 2019 Festival.

She has enjoyed collaborations with eBay, Adidas, and The New York Times, among others. In 2017, she worked with Budweiser to commemorate Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s retirement from NASCAR. The tribute film was viewed more than 4 million times within 24 hours of its release online and generated 13 million hits in less than one week. In 2018, she worked alongside Wieden + Kennedy to edit a six-part travel series for S7 Airlines, which has since received over 35 million YouTube views.

Meghan Sims is an award-winning editor and filmmaker who seeks to close the gaps separating fiction and nonfiction, narrative and abstraction.

She got her start on the ground floor at VICE in its early days of expanding into a multimedia production company and agency. While there, she worked on what became the Emmy-winning HBO investigative news series, “VICE News Tonight” and feature documentary, The Ride, which showed at MoMA and SXSW Film Festival in 2010.

In 2012, she led the digital campaign for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, cutting more than 40 portraits of survivors of gun violence as MAIG lobbied for national legislative reform. Her short film, “We Do Too,” won Best Documentary at the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Scene: Brooklyn film showcase that same year.

Her feature film credts include BIG STAR: Nothing Can Hurt Me, (Official Selection, 2012 SXSW Film Festival), distributed by Magnolia Pictures, as well as Tickling Giants (Official Selection, 2016 TriBeCa Film Festival) as an assistant editor. She assisted Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) and editor Melody London (Stranger Than Paradise, Heart of a Dog) on Poitras’ latest feature, RISK, about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2016. In September 2019 she was profiled in industry publication, Shots magazine’s “On My Radar” section. This November, she was proud to serve as a juror for the Shots Awards Europe’s 2019 Festival.

She has enjoyed collaborations with eBay, Adidas, and The New York Times, among others. In 2017, she worked with Budweiser to commemorate Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s retirement from NASCAR. The tribute film was viewed more than 4 million times within 24 hours of its release online and generated 13 million hits in less than one week. In 2018, she worked alongside Wieden + Kennedy to edit a six-part travel series for S7 Airlines, which has since received over 35 million YouTube views.