Moira Demos is an Emmy Award winning American

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, producer and editor. Demos rose to prominence with her documentary ''

Making a Murderer ''Making a Murderer'' is an American true crime documentary television series written and directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos. The show tells the story of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who served 18 years in pri ...

'' 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 frequently as a film editor and an electrician on the set of films. She is credited as an electrician for the film ''

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'' based on painter Jackson Pollock's life, and is also credited as an additional electrician on the film '' You Can Count on Me''.

''Making a Murderer''

In 2005 Demos and Laura Ricciardi read the article "Freed by DNA, Now Charged in New Crime" in ''

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''. Fascinated by

Steven Avery Steven Allan Avery (born July 9, 1962) is an American convicted murderer from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who had previously been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of sexual assault and attempted murder. After serving eighteen years of a thirty-tw ...

's case, they rented a car and borrowed a camera and began filming the day after they arrived in Wisconsin. The series premiered on

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in December 2015 to positive reviews. Review aggregator site

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awarded it a score of 85 out of 100, indicating majority positive reviews. Demos went on to win four Emmys for her work on ''

'': 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. In 2018 Demos and Ricciardi released a second season of ''

''.

Personal life

Demos is in a long-term relationship with director Laura Ricciardi. She graduated from

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in 1996.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Demos, Moira American documentary filmmakers LGBT film directors American film editors Living people American women film editors American women documentary filmmakers Year of birth missing (living people) Columbia College (New York) alumni 21st-century American women