Charlotte Zwerin (born Charlotte Mitchell, August 15, 1931 – January 22, 2004) was an American documentary film director and editor known for her solo work profiling artists and musicians, and as a pioneer of direct cinema and cinéma vérité, co-directing the documentaries Salesman (1969), Gimme Shelter (1970), and Running Fence (1978) with Albert and David Maysles.

[6][7] Zwerin was an editor who worked on some of the canonical films of the cinéma vérité mode of documentary filmmaking including Salesman and Gimme Shelter.

"[8] Gimme Shelter monitors the famous London rock band, The Rolling Stones, during their 1969 tour which culminated in the deadly Altamont Free Concert.

The film has gained a great deal of notoriety, infamy and controversy for portraying a stabbing which resulted in the killing of Meredith Hunter at the hands of the Hells Angels, who were working as security for the concert.

[9] Zwerin directed several other documentaries with subjects such as Thelonious Monk, "the brilliant and eccentric jazz pianist", the Armenian abstract painter Arshile Gorky, and the legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald, among many others.