Nels Bangerter

Filmes

Riotsville, USA
Editor
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of the late 1960s: take a military base, build a mock inner-city set, cast soldiers to play rioters, burn the place down, and film it all.
32 Sounds
Editor
Explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us.
Arctic Summer
Editorial Consultant
ARCTIC SUMMER is a poetic meditation on Tuktoyaktuk, an Indigenous community in the Arctic. The film captures Tuk during one of the last summers before climate change forced Tuk's coastal population to relocate to more habitable land.
As Mortes de Dick Johnson
Editor
Em Dick Johnson Is Dead, a diretora Kirsten Johnson busca uma maneira de manter vivo seu pai de 86 anos para sempre. Utilizando a magia do cinema e o humor sombrio de sua família, ela comemora os últimos anos do Dr. Dick Johnson encenando fantasias da morte e além. Juntos, pai e filha enfrentam a grande inevitabilidade que nos espera.
As Mortes de Dick Johnson
Writer
Em Dick Johnson Is Dead, a diretora Kirsten Johnson busca uma maneira de manter vivo seu pai de 86 anos para sempre. Utilizando a magia do cinema e o humor sombrio de sua família, ela comemora os últimos anos do Dr. Dick Johnson encenando fantasias da morte e além. Juntos, pai e filha enfrentam a grande inevitabilidade que nos espera.
The Hottest August
Editor
Brett Story's visionary look at New York City as it braces for an uncertain future.
Border South
Consulting Editor
Mexico and the United States crack down on the trails north, forcing immigrants into more dangerous territory. Told against the backdrop of the North American migrant trail, 'Border South' weaves together migrant stories of resilience and survival from different vantage points. The film exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death.
Jaddoland
Consulting Producer
Moving between the playful and the contemplative, explores the meaning of identity and home across three generations of an Iraqi family in Texas.
Exit Music
Editor
Born with cystic fibrosis, 28 year old Ethan Rice faces his demise with a dark sense of humour and more concern about what his passing will mean to those he leaves behind than for himself.
Project X
Editor
A top-secret handbook takes viewers on an undercover journey to Titanpointe, the site of a hidden partnership. Narrated by Rami Malek and Michelle Williams, and based on classified NSA documents, PROJECT X reveals the inner workings of a windowless skyscraper in downtown Manhattan.
Cameraperson
Editor
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What emerges is an elegant meditation on the relationship between truth and the camera frame, as Johnson transforms scenes that have been presented on Festival screens as one kind of truth into another kind of story—one about personal journey, craft, and direct human connection.
Unseen
Writer
In 2009, police discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of known sex offender. With unprecedented access to the surviving victims, UNSEEN looks into how this killing spree went unnoticed for so long.
The Above
Editor
A U.S. military surveillance balloon floats on a tether high above Kabul, Afghanistan. Its capacities are both highly classified and deeply mysterious.
You See Me
Editor
Documentary - After her father suffers a debilitating stroke, documentary filmmaker Linda Brown bravely turns the camera on her family's struggle to understand the legacy left by an emotionally conflicted man. Drawing on home movies, family photos and interviews, she uncovers lies, reveals secrets, and discovers a treasure in a lost family video. You See Me is a touching and poignant exploration of grief, forgiveness and loss as a catalyst for growth. -
A Place in the Middle
Editor
Eleven year old Ho'onani dreams of leading the hula troupe at her inner-city Honolulu school. The only trouble is that the group is just for boys. She's fortunate that her teacher understands first-hand what it's like to be 'in the middle' - the ancient Hawaiian tradition of embracing both male and female spirit. Together they set out to prove that what matters most is to be true to yourself.
Kumu Hina
Editor
A transgender Native Hawaiian teacher inspires a young girl to fulfill her destiny of leading the school's male hula troupe, even as she struggles to find love and a committed relationship in her own life.
Let the Fire Burn
Editor
Jason Osder delivers an account of the incidents leading up to and during the 1985 standoff between the extremist African-American organization MOVE and Philadelphia authorities. The dramatic clash would claim eleven lives and devastate an entire community.
War Child
Editor
Hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal returns to Sudan where he served as a child soldier.