About

Dustin Waldman is a filmmaker, writer and editor based in New York. Short films he wrote and directed have played at festivals like SXSW, Rotterdam, Sidewalk, Indie Memphis, Rooftop Films and Nobudge Live. In 2023 he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Vulture once described his work as “cringe-comedy psychodrama.”

As an editor he’s worked on many award-winning narrative and documentary films, including Faya Dayi, Are We Not Cats, ESPN’s 30 for 30 Short Deerfoot of the Diamond and the Camerimage winning A Mouthful of Petrol. He has also edited many short documentaries for the Museum of Modern Art.

Email: dustinwaldman@gmail.com

Press

Filmmaker Magazine - 25 New Faces of Independent Film (2023)
Director’s Notes - Dustin Waldman’s ‘Never Fuggedaboutit’ Sees The Sopranos Become a Heated Battleground for American Patriotism (2023)
Film Shortage - Never Fuggedaboutit (2023)
The Movable Feast - Dustin Waldman on Giving Into the Mob in “Never Fuggedaboutit” (2023)
First Showing - Watch: Dark Comedy Short Film 'Never Fuggedaboutit' About Editors (2023)
Filmmaker Magazine - ”Film as prayer” Editors Jeanne Applegate and Dustin Waldman on “Faya Dayi” (2021)
Indiewire - MoMA Celebrates the Largest Body of Moving-Image Work: Home Movies (2020)
Vulture - 10 Wonderfully Eccentric Indie Films Streaming for Free (2018)