LAUREN SAFFA
Meet Lauren






Lauren Saffa is an Emmy Award–winning documentary film editor known for her compelling and socially resonant work. Her recent credits include Rebecca (Tribeca Film Festival, 2025), a feature documentary spotlighting musician Becky G; Social Studies(Telluride Film Festival, 2024), a docuseries directed by Lauren Greenfield that delves into the impact of social media on teenagers; and Subject (Tribeca Film Festival, 2022), a critically acclaimed exploration of the ethics behind documentary filmmaking.
Other notable projects include The Cost of Silence (Sundance, 2020), the Emmy-winning short Blackfeet Boxing, Do You Trust This Computer, and the Oscar-shortlisted Hooligan Sparrow. Her television work spans platforms such as HBO (Unveiled) and Netflix (Song Exploder).
Lauren’s commitment to socially and culturally relevant storytelling began early in her career with Another World (Berlin International Film Festival, 2014), a documentary she co-produced and edited about the Occupy Wall Street movement. She has since collaborated with director Fisher Stevens on several films, including Deepest Dive for BBC America and My Decisions for Microsoft.
A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts / Gallatin, Lauren also studied film in Cuba at La Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano. She has produced political documentary theater for The Culture Project, including the War Against Wars short film series, which premiered at the United Nations.
Growing up as the daughter of veteran documentary filmmaker Joan Saffa, Lauren was raised with a deep-rooted passion for storytelling. She had the opportunity to share this passion with her mom on the film Looking Through the Eyes of AIDS, which they filmed together in Myanmar.
Lauren lives in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, with her husband and their two children.
FILMS
Latest Project
Rebecca (2025)
Directors: Jennifer Tiexiera & Gabriela Cavanagh | Festival: TriBeCa FF 2025
Stay on Board (2022)
Dir. Nicola Marsh & Giovanni Reda | OutFest FF 2022
The Great Imposter (2022)
Dir. Russell Dinallo
Blackfeet Boxing (2020)
Dir. Kristen Lappas & Tom Rinaldi | Sports Emmy

The Cost of Silence (2019)
Dir. Mark Manning | Sundance FF 2020
Most Likely to Succeed (2019)
Dir. Pamela Littky
One Step Back (2019)
Dir. Peter Ventrella
Alone in the Game (2018)
Dir. Natalie Metzger
Additional Editor
Do You Trust this Computer?(2018)
Dir. Chris Paine
Hooligan Sparrow (2016)
Dir. Nanfu Wang | Sundance FF 2015
Additional Editor
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (2016)
Dir. Ron Howard | 2 Emmys
Additional Editor
Another World (2014)
Dir. Fisher Stevens & Rebecca Chaiklin |
Berlin Film Festival 2014
From Baghdad to Brooklyn (2013)
Dir. Jennifer Utz
My Decisions (2012)
Dir. Fisher Stevens & Mark Monroe
Deepest Dive: The Story of the Trieste (2011)
Dir. Fisher Stevens
TELEVISION

Social Studies (2024)
FX | Dir. Lauren Greenfield
United States of Scandal (2024)
CNN | Executive Producers Gil Marsden & Alexandra Orton
Jeanette Lee Vs. (2022)
30 For 30 | Dir. Ursula Liang
Additional Editor
Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson (2021)
Apple + | Dir. Jason Zeldes, Mark Monroe & Morgan Neville
The People v. The Klan (2021)
CNN | Dir. Donnie Eichar
Song Exploder (2021)
Netflix | Dir. Jason Zeldes, Nicola Marsh & Morgan Neville