Aaron Wickenden is a filmmaker with extensive professional experience as a freelance editor and cinematographer. He is regarded for bringing a tireless work ethic and playful spirit to each of his creative collaborations. His recent accomplishments include: Co-Editor and Post Supervisor for Kartemquin’s The Interrupters, Documentary Cinematographer and Post Supervisor for the concert documentary Andrew Bird: Fever Year, and Producer and Cinematographer for multi-media content on The New Yorker website. His professional career began via internships in 1999 with world-renowned photographers Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz and he still occasionally dabbles in photography. In the past year his images appeared on the covers of Realscreen and Videography magazines, and were also published in dozens of print outlets including Streetwise, Cineaste, Rolling Stone and The Chicagoan. Wickenden’s commercial clients include Bank of America, Mom+Pop Records, and Epitaph Records.

2011’s release of The Interrupters marked his fifth significant collaboration with Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams). The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and garnered top festival awards at major festivals as well as the 2012 Independent Spirit Award. The Interrupters was also named “The Best Documentary of 2011” by national critics’ polls conducted by IndieWire, the Village Voice and in a numerical study by PBS. Prior to that Wickenden Co-Produced and Co-Edited James’ award-winning documentary At the Death House Door for Kartemquin and IFC, and was Associate Editor and Post Supervisor on SenArt Films’ The War Tapes which won Best Documentary at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Both projects were shortlisted for the documentary Academy Award®. Wickenden’s editing credits also include Scrappers, a feature that won both Best Documentary and the Audience Award at The Chicago Underground Film Festival and later was named one of the top 15 docs of 2010 by Roger Ebert.

He is currently working on a number of projects in various stages of development. Wickenden is a Cinematographer for Mormon Movie, Editor of The Trials of Muhammad Ali, Editor on Finding Vivian Maier, Editing Advisor for Street Fighting Man and Keepers of the Earth, and a Consultant on WBEZ’s Curious City. In addition, along with filmmaker Dan Rybicky, he is Co-Directing and Co-Producing a feature documentary for Kartemquin titled Almost There, which has been six years in the making. The project has been awarded an Art in Technology Residency at the Wexner Center in Ohio and will be completed in 2013.