Chris O’Coin is a Brooklyn, New York based award winning documentary editor whose films have screened on PBS, HBO, Showtime, Hulu, Vice, and ESPN among others.

He is best known for his work with the iconic PBS series Frontline. His first film for Frontline, Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos garnered rave reviews from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Salon and more, as well as an Emmy Award, and the honor of being the most streamed Frontline documentary of 2020 and the most streamed documentary in Frontline history. His follow up for Frontline The Power of the Fed received an Emmy nomination and was the second most streamed Frontline film of 2021. His third film for Frontline "Age of Easy Money", an epic investigation into so-called “easy money” monetary policy and its wide ranging unintended consequences, earned 10 million views on YouTube alone in its first month. Additionally his work on the 2022 film “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes” helped earn the RFK Award Grand Prize, along with multiple Emmy nominations, and a Peabody nomination.

Previously his work on the Showtime feature documentary American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself directed by Alexandra Pelosi and Executive Produced by Sheila Nevins, lead to praise in The Washington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, and more.

As an editor at Vice Media, his work on the Vice limited series Terror as both an Editor and Supervising Producer garnered a prestigious Canadian Screen Award, while his other documentary work racked up over 65 million views on YouTube alone, as well as earning several Webby Awards and a Clio Award.

In 2011, his work as an editor and writer on independent feature documentary Push: Madison vs. Madison helped the film earn the Audience Award at The Independent Film Festival of Boston, praise from The Boston Herald, and showings on ESPN and PBS.

When he’s not holed up in an edit room Chris spends his time singing in punk bands, singing at karaoke bars, and singing to his partner Laura and their dog Goose.