Tessa Malsam is a film editor based in Denver, Colorado. She has worked on various projects including the Emmy awarded Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, the Patagonia feature Newtok, The Grab, the latest exposé from filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish). Tessa is an alumni of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing fellowship and currently editing multiple feature documentaries including I Was Born This Way, a documentary feature by the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard.
Tessa graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in Journalism and spent time in Los Angeles assisting in editing nationally broadcast campaigns for a wide range of clients before shifting her focus to documentary editing.