Hillary Bachelder
Director
HILLARY BACHELDER (Director/Shooter/ Editor) is a graduate of Northwestern University’s film program and an associate of Kartemquin Films, the social-issue documentary powerhouse in Chicago. Hillary is the previous Director of Production at Kartemquin and earned both editing and production credits on over a dozen of the company’s critically acclaimed films and series, including the Emmy-award-winning Trials of Muhammad Ali, Al Jazeera America's Hard Earned, and Oscar shortlisted Minding the Gap. In 2015, she was selected to participate in the prestigious Sundance Documentary Edit and Storytelling lab as an up- and-coming editor of promise. Her recent work has included a 4-part video series with the New York Times that won an Edward R. Murrow award in 2018. Hillary’s first film, Embodies, is a 40-minute piece that explores three women’s complicated relationships with the human body. The film premiered at the Big Sky Film Festival in 2014.