Biography
Avril Beukes is a South African film editor. She began her career in South Africa, where she edited feature films including Paljas (1997) and A Reasonable Man (1999). She edited the debut feature films of directors Tom Hooper and Gavin Hood, and worked extensively with Darrell James Roodt.
In 2004 she edited both Red Dust and Yesterday. For Red Dust she received the inaugural Golden Horn Award for Feature Film Editing in 2006. Yesterday was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Little One (2013), which she edited, was South Africa's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
She later relocated to the United States, where her credits include the feature Respect (2021) and television series such as Queen Sugar.
