Moira Demos
{{Short description|American filmmaker, producer and editor}}
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| name = Moira Demos
| alma_mater = Columbia University
| occupation = Filmmaker, film editor
| known_for = Co-producer of the documentary series Making a Murderer
| partner = Laura Ricciardi
}}
Moira Demos is an American filmmaker, producer and editor. Demos rose to prominence with her documentary Making a Murderer which she co-directed with filmmaker Laura Ricciardi, in a process that took 10 years to complete.
Film career
Before working as a director Demos worked as a film editor and an electrician on the set of films. She is credited as an electrician for the film Pollock based on painter Jackson Pollock's life, and is also credited as an additional electrician on the film You Can Count on Me.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
In 2005 Demos and Laura Ricciardi read the article "Freed by DNA, Now Charged in New Crime" in The New York Times.{{cite web|last1=Murphy|first1=Mekado|title=Behind 'Making a Murderer,' a New Documentary Series on Netflix|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/arts/television/behind-making-a-murderer-a-new-documentary-series-on-netflix.html|website=The New York Times|date=20 December 2015|access-date=27 December 2015}} Fascinated by Steven Avery's case, they rented a car and borrowed a camera and began filming the day after they arrived in Wisconsin.{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Nate|title=Making a Murderer Directors on Bringing Steven Avery's Story to Netflix|url=http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/making-a-murderer-directors-on-steven-avery-case.html|website=Vulture|date=18 December 2015|access-date=27 December 2015}}
The series premiered on Netflix in December 2015 to positive reviews. Review aggregator site Metacritic awarded it a score of 85 out of 100, indicating majority positive reviews.{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/tv/making-a-murderer|title=Making a Murderer|website=Metacritic|access-date=27 December 2015}}
Demos won Emmys for her work on Making a Murderer: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming, and Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming which she shared with Ricciardi and the Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming which she won on her own.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
In 2018 Demos and Ricciardi released a second season of Making a Murderer.{{cite web |last1=Travers |first1=Ben |title='Making a Murderer' Season 2 Slipped Because Reality Ruins the Documentary, Even as It Makes Fiction Believable |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/making-a-murderer-2-avery-hard-to-watch-1202014389/ |website=IndieWire |date=24 October 2018 |access-date=17 June 2019}}
Personal life
Demos is in a long-term relationship with director Laura Ricciardi. She graduated from Columbia University in 1996.{{Cite web|last=Alonso|first=Nathalie|date=Winter 2018–19|title=Moira Demos '96 Returns to the Scene of the Crime|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/winter18/article/moira-demos-%E2%80%9996-returns-scene-crime|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=July 27, 2020|website=Columbia College Today}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0218668}}
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Category:American documentary filmmakers
Category:American LGBTQ film directors
Category:American film editors
Category:American women film editors
Category:American women documentary filmmakers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)