Editors Anonymous - Montatori Anonimi Podcast

Yaël Bitton is an award-winning documentary editor, writer and story consultant, with over 30 years of experience. Born in Geneva and trained in Brussels, she spent a decade in New York, beginning as a script supervisor for Wim Wenders before turning to editing. For over two decades, she has shaped bold, complex nonfiction films with directors worldwide - always drawn to sound, music, and the cine...

This episode is part of a series created in collaboration with AMC and was recorded during “L’arte del montaggio”, a series of ten conversations with ten Italian female editors, held in Rome and organized by AMC in September 2024. Simona Paggi made her debut editing “Porte Aperte” by Gianni Amelio, with whom she still collaborates today. She has also edited films by Peter del Monte, Enzo d'Alò, Em...

Rik Chaubet is a young Belgian editor who has lived one of the most incredible fairy tales in our profession: he started working on “Soundtrack to a Coup d’État” as an intern, eventually becoming its editor and attending the Oscars, where the film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature. Not bad for a debut! In this episode, we dive into the editing of the film directed by Johan Grimonprez. Wor...

This episode is part of a series created in collaboration with AMC and was recorded during “L’arte del montaggio”, a series of ten conversations with ten Italian female editors, held in Rome and organized by AMC in September 2024. Today we’re listening to Paola Freddi and Valentina Mariani. Paola Freddi has collaborated with Piero Messina, Paolo Genovese and Luca Miniero, Claudio Noce, Salvatore M...

Valerio Bonelli is one of the most internationally acclaimed Italian film editors. After taking his first steps in Italy, his training continued in London, where he studied at the National Film and Television School and worked as an assistant editor on films like “Gladiator” by Ridley Scott, alongside Pietro Scalia. From there, he began a career that led him to collaborate with directors such as S...

This episode is part of a series created in collaboration with AMC and was recorded during “L’arte del montaggio”, a series of ten conversations with ten Italian female editors, held in Rome and organized by AMC in September 2024. In this episode, we had the pleasure of listening to two highly experienced editors: Carlotta Cristiani and Ilaria Fraioli. Carlotta Cristiani has long collaborated with...

Desideria Rayner began her editing career after several years of experience in journalism, collaborating, among others, on the Italian television program “Blob". At 30, without a proper academic background, editing came to her as a second life during a moment of reset. In short, it's never too late to become an editor! Desideria started by editing documentaries, working with Agostino Ferrente (“L’...

For the first time in our podcast, we will have not just one, but two guests, and for the first time, they will be directors. No, we haven’t switched to the dark side of the Force - we’ve invited them as editors! Alessandro Comodin and João Nicolau have developed a unique collaboration: both directors, they take on the role of editors to edit each other’s films. João has edited almost all of Aless...

Benni Atria is a peculiar figure in Italian editing over the last few decades. Benni is both a film editor and a sound editor, and he still moves from one room to another, sometimes for the same film! Benni actually starts his adventure in cinema in the cinematography department, but like many of us, he realizes that the stress of the set is not for him. After his first experiences as an editing a...

Marie-Hélène Dozo is a Belgian film editor, one of the most important figures in the European and international film landscape, and a member of the Oscars Academy Awards since 2016. Famous for her thirty-year collaboration with the Dardenne brothers, she has edited all of their films, including “Rosetta” (Palme d’Or at Cannes 1999), “L’enfant” (Palme d’Or at Cannes 2005), and “Tori and Lokita,” aw...

Francesca Calvelli is the editor of numerous films and TV series by important Italian directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Francesca Comencini, and Saverio Costanzo, which has led her to win, among other awards, two David di Donatello and five Nastri d’argento. We started with her latest work, the editing of “Marx può aspettare” by Marco Bellocchio. A very intimate and courageous film, in which Fra...

Natalie Cristiani studied editing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After working as an editing assistant, an experience she still considers fundamental to her training, she collaborated with directors such as Pappi Corsicato (“Pompeii: Sin City,” 2021), Mario Martone (“Capri-revolution,” 2018, with Jacopo Quadri), and Elisa Fuksas (“Nina,” 2012, “Isola,” 2020). She lived for several y...

Letizia Caudullo is one of the most experienced Italian documentary editors, although her filmography is not limited to documentary filmmaking and includes several works of fiction, such as the cult film “Paz!” (2002, directed by Renato De Maria), edited alongside Jacopo Quadri, for whom she had previously worked as an assistant on “L’assedio” by Bernardo Bertolucci. In addition to her work as an...

There have been many sliding doors that Jacopo Quadri encountered at the beginning of his career. His work as an assistant director, a vacation in Capraia, the exam at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome, and a trip to China. All of these have led him to become one of the most prominent contemporary editors today. A long-time collaborator with several directors, including Mario Martone (among them, hi...

Francesca Sofia Allegra became interested in editing when she realized it is not far removed from screenwriting. She has worked across various genres and formats: from documentaries to music videos, from commercials to trailers for fiction films. She now lives and works in London, where she was part of the editing teams for two important Italian documentary series: “Veleno” (directed by Hugo Berke...

Cristiano Travaglioli's career is closely tied to that of Paolo Sorrentino: the two crossed paths from the very first feature film by the Neapolitan director, “L’uomo in più,” in 2001, when Cristiano was an editing assistant to Giogiò Franchini. It is starting with “Il Divo” (Cannes 2008) that he began his collaboration as an editor with Sorrentino. From “This Must Be The Place” (Cannes 2011) to t...

Roberto Perpignani has collaborated with the Taviani brothers, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti, Gianni Amelio, Miklós Jancsó, and many others. He has won four David di Donatello awards (“La notte di San Lorenzo,” 1983; “Il postino,” 1995; “Marianna Ucria,” 1997; “Cesare deve morire,” 2012) and a Palme d'Or (“Padre Padrone,” 1977). Since editing his first film “Il processo” in...

Esmeralda Calabria is one of the most experienced Italian editors, a three-time winner of the David di Donatello for Best Editing (“Fuori dal mondo” by Giuseppe Piccioni in 1999, “Romanzo Criminale” by Michele Placido in 2006 and “Favolacce” by D’Innocenzo brothers in 2021). She edited “La stanza del figlio” by Nanni Moretti (Palme d'Or at Cannes 2001), with whom she also collaborated on “Il caima...

Johannes was born and lives in Germany, but he studied film in Italy and took his first steps as an editor there. He was the assembling editor for Gianfranco Rosi on “Below Sea Level,” edited documentaries for Arte (“Das Wikipedia Versprechen” by Lorenza Castella and Jascha Hannover), and worked on the films of Alberto Fasulo, including “Rumore Bianco,” “Tir” (AMC Award for Best Editing at the Rom...

Annalisa Forgione has never abandoned her passions for writing, cinema, and study. One of the first graduates in editing from the Centro Sperimentale, she told us about her lessons with Perpignani in front of the legendary Moviolas. She has edited films by Giorgia Cecere (“Il primo incarico” and “In un posto bellissimo”) and “Bellissime,” “Bellissime 2,” and “Il mare della nostra storia” by Giovan...

Enrico Giovannone is one of those mythical creatures, half editor and half producer. In practice, he is one of the few editors who can hire his own director! He was indeed the producer of his editing debut “Rata nece biti!” by Daniele Gaglianone, thus inaugurating a long partnership with the Turin-born director, both in documentary (“Dove bisogna stare,” 2019) and in fiction (“Ruggine,” 2011 and “...

Enrica Gatto, who studied directing at the Zelig Film School, began her career as an editor almost by chance, editing the documentary “Valentina Postika in attesa di partire” (Best Italian Documentary at the Turin Film Festival 2009) by her schoolmate Caterina Carone. Since then, Enrica has edited some of the most interesting Italian documentaries of the last decade (“L’apprendistato” by Davide Ma...

A graduate in editing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Francesco Fabbri edited the documentary “Bajkonur, Terra” by Andrea Sorini and the comedy “Ci vuole un fisico” by Alessandro Tamburini. More recently, he co-edited “Padrenostro” (Venice Film Festival 2020) by Claudio Noce alongside Giogiò Franchini, whom he previously assisted on “Figli” by Giuseppe Bonito. Francesco als...

Aline Hervé is a film editor who experienced a revelation on her own road to Damascus: she abandoned a PhD in econometrics for film editing after watching "The Man with a Movie Camera" by Dziga Vertov in a theater. After working as an assistant editor ("The Dreamers" by Bernardo Bertolucci, "The Consequences of Love" by Paolo Sorrentino), she went on to edit numerous documentaries, including "Dal...

In the first episode of our podcast, we have a chat with Beppe Leonetti, who loved the project so much that he later joined the team as a co-host. Beppe studied under Roberto Perpignani at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and edited the film "Là-bas - educazione criminale," which won Best Debut Film at the Venice Film Festival in 2011, as well as "Babylon Sisters" by Gigi Roccati and the...