Aaron I. Butler

Aaron I. Butler, ACE, is an Emmy Award-winning, two-time ACE Eddie Award-nominated editor. He is best known for the film "J.T. LeRoy" starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger and Jim Sturgess which was the closing night film at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018. Other theatrical films he edited have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. He began his career in 1997 at the Saul Zaentz film center in Berkeley, CA where he shot and edited his first documentary "Learning to Fly" with Academy Award-nominated director Bill Jersey. The film won Gold Medals at the New York Festivals and the US International Film Festival and aired on PBS. In 2002 Aaron edited on the documentary series "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow," which won the IDA Award for limited series and the Peabody Award, and was nominated for three Emmys. Aaron later moved to Los Angeles, where he edited the Sundance Channel series "Plea