Keiko Deguchi, ACE
Born 1962
Keiko Deguchi, ACE, is an award-winning film editor of over 50 feature narrative and documentary films. She was a nominee in the Best Editing category for the 2019 Spirit Award for her work on We the Animals. Other narrative films she has edited include Steven Shainberg’s Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, Dina Amer’s You Resemble Me, and most recently, Jeremiah Zagar’s Hustle. Her documentary film credits include award-winning films such as Jeremiah Zagar’s In a Dream, Matt Wolf’s Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, Ross Kaufman’s TIGERLAND, and JR’s Paper and Glue. Most recently Deguchi edited four episodes of the 2025 TV series Task. Like Mary Stephen, she is a rare editor versed in both fiction films and documentary films who brings her sense of narrative structure to documentary films and her creative use of footage to narrative films.
