Beschrijving
// bio //
Pierpaolo Filomeno is an Italian film editor, based in Brussels.
He graduated at ZeLIG - School for films, editing the award winning documentary Vergot by Cecilia Bozza Wolf (premiered at Festival dei Popoli 2016).
He worked with Marie-Hélène Dozo as assistant film editor and editor on feature and documentary films, including What You Gonna Do When The World Is On Fire? by Roberto Minervini (Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2018), God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija by Teona Strugar Mitevska (Berlinale 2019). Among the others, he edited the documentaries No Kings by Emilia Mello (CPH DOX 2020, True/False 2021) and Love is not an orange by Otilia Babara (DOK Leipzig 2022). Both films were invited at the exclusive New York MoMA's “Doc Fortnight”, in 2022 and 2023.
In 2017 he was awarded for the Best Editing of the year by the Italian Academy of Documentary (Doc/it Awards), with the film Vergot.
Since 2021 he hosts together with Beppe Leonetti and Gabriele Borghi Montatori Anonimi, a podcast about film editing.
// filmography //
2024
Così com'è, feature 84 min, Antonello Scarpelli
in post production
film editor
2024
Jump Out, documentary 82 min, Nika Šaravanja
premiered at FIPADOC
film editor
2023
La casa del bosco, short 16 min, Giovanni Benini and Luca Mantovani
premiered at Lago Film Festival
film editor
2023
Rispet, feature 105 min, Cecilia Bozza Wolf
premiered at Bolzano Film Festival
film editor
2022
Makedonium: Dramaturgija na nezavrsenoto, short 48 min, Teona Strugar Mitevska
film editor
2022
Love is not an orange, documentary 70 min, Otilia Babara
premiered at DOK Leipzig
film editor
2021
La Restanza, documentary 93 min, Alessandra Coppola
premiered at Torino Film Festival
film editor
2021
Borderline - Where the world ends, documentary 52 min, Anna Savchenko
premiered at Astra Film Festival
film editor
2020
Marana, documentary 65 min, Giovanni Benini and Davide Provolo
premiered at Beldocs
film editor
2020
No Kings, documentary 88 min, Emilia Mello
premiered at CPH:DOX
film editor
2019
God Exists, her name is Petrunija, feature 100 min, Teona Strugar Mitevska
premiered at Berlinale
additional film editor
2019
What You Gonna Do When The World’s on Fire?, doc 123 min, Roberto Minervini
premiered at Mostra del Cinema di Venezia
assistant film editor
2018
Rosie & Moussa, feature 89 min, Dorothée Van Den Berghe
premiered at Toronto International FIlm Festival
assistant film editor
2018
Sembra Mio Figlio, feature 95 min, Costanza Quatriglio
Premiered at Locarno Film Festival
assistant film editor
2016
Vergot, documentary 60min, Cecilia Bozza Wolf
premiered at Festival dei Popoli
film editor
2016
Wrong Elements, documentary 133min, Jonathan Littell
premiered at Festival de Cannes
assistant film editor
2016
Aquamazonida, documentary 39min, Joao Leite
premiered at Festival do filme etnografico
sound editor
2016
Metalmorphosis, documentary 29min, Cecilia Bozza Wolf and Michela Tomasi
premiered at DOK.fest München
film editor
2014
Liturgica, documentary 17min, Pierpaolo Filomeno
director
2014
Iron, short 8min, Nika Šaravanja
film editor