Gail Huddleson is an Emmy nominated documentary editor whose work has screened at festivals across the country, as well as on Showtime, PBS, Al Jazeera and more.  She has been editing long and short form documentaries for over twenty years.  Her current project is Harvest, a vérité film about the Nelson brothers - four young, ambitious, fourth-generation commodity farmers who dream of becoming the biggest Black farmers in the United States.

Her recent work includes Jon Else’s Land of Gold, which weaves the story of the making of an opera about the Gold Rush with the buried history of that era, and Dawn Porter’s Deadlocked, a 4 part series for Showtime that traces the rightward trajectory of the Supreme Court.  She is equally comfortable cutting vérité stories as she is crafting an absorbing narrative out of a complex historical subject. Directors have told her that they enjoy working with her because she surprises them - revealing ‘hidden’ moments in their footage.

Gail has edited films on subjects as diverse as the writings of Michael Pollan, transracial parenting, the history of medieval Spain, Parkinson’s patients who dance, and the celebrated marine biologist, Sylvia Earle. Her credits include:  The Botany of Desire, Capturing Grace, In Defense of Food, Frontline’s My Father, My Brother, and Me, Paperback Dreams, and The Ornament of the World. 

Gail earned a Master’s degree from the Stanford University Documentary Film program, where she received the Guild Award in Documentary from the Princess Grace Foundation for her thesis film.  She was a Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Editing Mentor in 2023-2024. She lives in San Francisco’s Excelsior district with her husband and daughter.