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name: "Simon McMahon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-mcmahon"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:35:27.760017+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Simon McMahon

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86212953, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1580828/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2257074

## Biography

Simon McMahon is a British film and television editor. His credits include the 2019 documentary *For Sama*, co-edited with Chloe Lambourne, as well as *My Son the Jihadi* (2015) and *Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story* (2022).

He has worked extensively on documentary projects for television, including episodes of *Frontline*, *Taken: Hunting the Sex Traffickers* and *Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia*. McMahon received two BAFTA Awards and a British Independent Film Award for Best Editing for *For Sama*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *For Sama* (2019), Fi1m 88, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/for-sama.md)

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