Princess A. Hairston is a director, producer, cinematographer and Emmy-nominated editor based in New York City. Princess co-directed a feature-length doc titled BREAKING THE NEWS. She edited THIS WORLD IS NOT MY OWN, a feature doc that Premiered at SXSW 2023. Princess recently worked on several doc series for major streaming services to be released in 2023. Princess was an editor for Amazon’s LULARICH. Princess also edited a one-hour special for the 2020 BIDEN/HARRIS campaign, a five-part 81-minute documentary series MASTERPIECE OF LOVE, was supervising editor for PIER KIDS and was an editor on FRESH DRESSED, an official 2015 Sundance Film Festival selection. In 2020, she produced a digital campaign for “Get Out The Vote” for Black Lives Matter. Princess was selected as one of 25 filmmaker nominees for the 2020 Lynn Shelton Of A Certain Age grant. She is a 2018 recipient of the Karen Schmeer Editing Fellowship and a 2018 Winner of the NYTVF + WEtv Producer Pitch which led to a development deal. Her work has been recognized with nominations and awards from the Emmys, The Webbys, and many film festivals.