Alethea Lindsay
Alethea is a highly skilled and versatile documentary editor whose greatest strengths are story and musicality. She loves finding fresh ways to explore a subject, bringing creativity, sensitivity and a strong narrative instinct to films spanning feature documentary, observational, history, science, natural history, true crime and factual entertainment.
With a background as a Producer/Director and writer, Alethea brings a valuable wider perspective into the edit, offering strong creative support and an understanding of the filmmaking process from production through to final story. Her work includes Planet Israel: A Cautionary Tale, Lost Treasures of Egypt, The Commandant’s Shadow, Arctic Sinkholes, Saving Venice and JFK: Seven Days that Made a President.
Alethea’s documentary work has received significant international recognition. Planet Israel: A Cautionary Tale won Best of Show at the IndieFEST Film Awards 2026. She also contributed additional editing to The Commandant’s Shadow, which was nominated for Best Documentary at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2025, while Arctic Sinkholes, edited by Alethea, won a duPont-Columbia Award 2023.
Proficient in Avid and Premiere Alethea combines technical confidence with an adventurous editorial approach and an instinct for finding the distinctive rhythm, character and emotional heart of a story. Alethea is also the founder of Cut the Carbon, a sustainability consultancy for the screen industries, with particular work around measuring and reducing post-production emissions. Her methodology, developed with Clear Cut Pictures, won the Sustainability category at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards 2025.
Planet Israel: A Cautionary Tale
Directed by Gillian Mosely, herself a British-American Jew, the film sets out to understand why the majority of Jewish Israelis support the way the war in Gaza has been fought – an inquiry that leads into questions of collective trauma, national identity and the role of media in shaping public perception. Drawing on interviews with historians, academics, commentators and everyday Israelis, IndieFEST describes the film as “exceptional investigative reporting seeking not to judge but to understand.”