Loulwa Khoury is a New York based film editor, filmmaker, born and raised in Beirut.

She edited award-winning feature documentaries Paradise Without People (2019) and Dusty and Stones (2022), Traces of Home, Joy Dancer and the Title IX ESPN short documentary Let Noor Run (2022). She has also been directing her first feature documentary, We Never Left. Her other work includes award-winning documentaries Some Kind of Heaven (2020), An Act Of Worship (2022), City of Ghosts (2017), It Will Be Chaos (2018), White Sauce Hot Sauce (2018), The Joneses (2016) and Look At Us Now, Mother (2015).  She was one of the fellows of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship 2019-2020, a fellow in the Sundance Co//ab Art of Editing Fellowship 2020, and part of the first DOC NYC x VC Storytelling Incubator cohort, she also won a Creative Power Award.

Fluent in Arabic, French and English she has worked on a variety of projects, but has mostly been interested in documentaries related to social issues, trying to make a difference in the world by raising awareness through film.

Due to her musical background, she also likes documentaries related to art and music since she grew up with a family of musicians and music has been her first love before diving into the film world. This led her to start a music blog Earblend in 2010, in which she interviews and films bands and concerts.

For more information check out her resume here. Samples are available upon inquiry.

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