Hi, I’m Will Hewitt. I’m a documentary editor and filmmaker with extensive hands-on editing experience across Netflix, BBC, ARTE, and festival work. I specialise in documentary storytelling and love shaping observational content into engaging narratives for feature and short docs, whether for broadcaster versions or theatrical releases. I work with a collaborative, exploratory approach to storytelling and continually look for projects that invite different perspectives. I’m a dyslexic, neurodiverse creator who fell in love with storytelling. I’ve edited and co-directed BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland-winning films, and I teach documentary storytelling at NFTS Scotland and the Edinburgh College of Art & the Edinburgh Futures Institute. I want to keep editing feature films you’d choose to watch in the cinema, while sharing knowledge with students and collaborators through teaching and mentorship.

Will Hewitt

Hi, I’m Will Hewitt. I’m a documentary editor and filmmaker with extensive hands-on editing experience across Netflix, BBC, ARTE, and festival work. I specialise in documentary storytelling and love shaping observational content into engaging narratives for feature and short docs, whether for broadcaster versions or theatrical releases. I work with a collaborative, exploratory approach to storytelling and continually look for projects that invite different perspectives. I’m a dyslexic, neurodiverse creator who fell in love with storytelling. I’ve edited and co-directed BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland-winning films, and I teach documentary storytelling at NFTS Scotland and the Edinburgh College of Art & the Edinburgh Futures Institute. I want to keep editing feature films you’d choose to watch in the cinema, while sharing knowledge with students and collaborators through teaching and mentorship.

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Hi, I’m Will Hewitt.

I’m a documentary editor and filmmaker with extensive hands-on editing experience across Netflix, BBC, ARTE, and festival work. I specialise in documentary storytelling and love shaping observational content into engaging narratives for feature and short docs, whether for broadcaster versions or theatrical releases. I work with a collaborative, exploratory approach to storytelling and continually look for projects that invite different perspectives.

I’m a dyslexic, neurodiverse creator who fell in love with storytelling. I’ve edited and co-directed BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland-winning films, and I teach documentary storytelling at NFTS Scotland and the Edinburgh College of Art & the Edinburgh Futures Institute. I want to keep editing feature films you’d choose to watch in the cinema, while sharing knowledge with students and collaborators through teaching and mentorship.

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Work Experience

Freelance - Documentary Editor at Freelance
January 1, 2018 - Present
Editing three feature documentaries; working across Netflix, BBC, ARTE; providing broadcaster and theatrical version edits (Editor and Additional Editor) and contributing to a range of feature and short docs.
Tutor in Documentary Storytelling at NFTS Scotland & Edinburgh University
January 1, 2022 - Present
Teaching documentary storytelling at NFTS Scotland and the Edinburgh University College of Art & the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Education

Master's in Documentary & Features (Distinction) at University of the West of England
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2014
BA Digital Media at Falmouth University
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2013

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