Lauren Schwartzman is a documentary film editor and producer based in Oakland, California, USA.

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Credits include: Editor on the documentary feature Among Neighbors (2024, Dir. Yoav Potash); Associate Editor for the documentary feature The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023, Dir. Nicole Newnham, Ed. Eileen Meyer) which premiered in competition at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival; and Associate Producer and Assistant Editor for the Oscar-nominated & Peabody-award-winning documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020, Dir. Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht; Ed. Eileen Meyer, Andrew Gersh).

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Lauren holds a Masters of Journalism in documentary film from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her thesis film, Dust Rising, won a Student Academy Award, was shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Film Awards, and screened in festivals across the U.S.

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Before embracing film as the perfect marriage of all her interests, Lauren has variously been an environmental educator, Peace Corps Volunteer, trail crew leader, poet, and visual artist. These past lives inform her work in film.​​