Hugh Lewis, BFE
Hugh is a documentary editor of 25 years’ experience who combines strong narrative instincts with excellent visual pacing, music and sound design. Hugh has edited for major UK and international broadcasters and streamers, including Netflix, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Hulu, National Geographic, History, Paramount+, Discovery, Smithsonian and Amazon.
He excels at shaping clear, engaging narratives across a broad range of subjects, including the natural world, science, crime, history, the arts and contemporary social and world affairs. He has considerable technical expertise, working with new technologies to enhance creativity and help streamline editing workflows.
The quality of Hugh’s work is reflected in the recognition received by many of the productions he has edited. Twisted Sisters: Madness & Manslaughter was Shortlisted for Outstanding Two-Part Documentary Series at the True Crime Awards, 2026. Lost Women of Highway 20, narrated by Octavia Spencer, received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Narrator at the Primetime Emmy Awards, 2024.
These achievements build on a long-standing record of acclaimed work including: A Killing in Tiger Bay Won Factual Series Award at the Celtic Media Festival, 2022, and was Nominated for News, Current Affairs & Topical at the BAFTA Cymru Awards, 2022. And earlier in his career, the Stephen Fry-narrated short film Nano You Won Best Short Film at SCINEMA, 2010.
Hugh brings creativity and good humour to the edit. He speaks fluent Spanish, has a useful ability with Portuguese and has worked with numerous other languages.
Known for being calm, creative and dependable under pressure, Hugh brings care, thought and great experience to every production.
Work by Hugh
Twisted Sisters: Madness and Manslaughter
Predator Hunters
Lost Women of Highway 20
Babies
The Nilsen Files
Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons
Tony Robinson’s World War I in 3D
American Monster
Drugs Inc.
Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved
Web of Death
Twisted Sisters: Madness and Manslaughter
This two-part documentary series explores the 2008 case of Swedish twins Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, detailing their bizarre behavior and Sabina’s subsequent fatal stabbing of a local man. The series examines theories of shared psychosis (folie à deux) to explain the events.
Predator Hunters
A powerful true crime series following veteran investigator Tony Godwin and the North Texas Internet Crimes Against Children task force as they track down online predators before they can harm children. With access to real investigations, undercover chats and coordinated stings, the series offers a raw look at the fight against online exploitation.
Lost Women of Highway 20
Three-part series investigating into a series of unsolved crimes from the 1970s to the 1990s, specifically the cases of four women who disappeared, and one who was raped, in the vicinity of Highway 20, an east-west route in Oregon.
Babies
The first year of a baby’s life is observed without narration in relation to 3 science stories about the first stages of human social development.
Hugh edited episode Relationships.
The Nilsen Files
The documentary series explores the case of British serial killer Dennis Nilsen and focuses on the lives of his victims.
Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons
Ex-con and investigative journalist Raphael Rowe, who himself was imprisoned for ten years in 1990, explores some of the globe’s harshest prisons.
Hugh has worked on Series 3 – 5.
Tony Robinson’s World War I in 3D
In this 3D/2D documentary series, Tony Robinson explores the history of World War I on the Western Front.
American Monster
The most terrifying criminals often hide in plain sight, looking as ordinary as a friendly next-door neighbour. Those regular Joes are the focus of American Monster, precisely because lurking within them are psychopathic killers.
Hugh edited episode Javier Bahena for Series 11.
Drugs Inc.
A documentary series that explores global narcotics production and trafficking.
Nature’s Strangest Mysteries: Solved
A documentary series giving you a front row seat to the demonstrations, experiments, and first-hand experience needed to solve nature’s strangest mysteries.
Web of Death
This documentary series follows determined online sleuths who use digital footprints, DNA databases and social media to help solve real murder cases. Each episode focuses on one amateur detective and one case – from identifying a skull found inside a cement bucket to tracking down a lottery winner who suddenly disappeared.