Maureen Gosling (born 30 November 1949) is an American documentary filmmaker, editor, and director.
Her physician father was a jazz pianist and her mother, who worked in little theater, was a first generation American of Norwegian/Canadian descent.
[citation needed] Gosling earned a BA in social anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1972 after which she became an apprentice to documentary filmmaker, Les Blank.
[4] Their first film together was in 1972, Dry Wood and Hot Pepper, on Black French Louisiana Zydeco music and Creole culture.
[5][6] In 1996, Gosling was an editing instructor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University, fall semester.