Editor
Laura Israel
13 films
Laura Israel cut her teeth editing award-winning commercials and music videos while still a film student at NYU. By the time she graduated she had formed her own editorial company, Assemblage. Her client list included: John Lurie, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Sonic Youth, New Order, Ziggy Marley, David Byrne, artists Laurie Simmons and Robert Frank. The films she edited with Frank have screened all over the world and won many awards. WINDFALL, her debut doc, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won top prize at Doc NYC. A NY Times Critics Pick, the paper dubbed it “Urgent, informative and artfully assembled”. WINDFALL is distributed by First Run Features, and Ms. Israel was named in Filmmaker Magazine’s 2011 “25 New Faces of Independent Film”.
Best known for
Filmography 13

Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage, 1970–2006
2024 · Director

Robert Frank's Scrapbook Footage: New York 1971
2024 · Director

Robert Frank in Conversation with Clark Winter: 10 Films
2024 · Editor

Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries
2019 · Editor


The King
2018 · Editor
On Plex

Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017 · Editor


Defining Hope
2017 · Editor
On PBS

National Disintegrations
2017 · Editor


Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015 · Director, Producer
On Tubi TV

Windfall
2012 · Director

The Music of Regret
2006 · Editor

Sanyu
2005 · Editor

Souvenir
1996 · Editor