Elena Maganini

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Elena Maganini
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Elena Maganini is a film editor, [1] best known for her work on the first season of Showtime TV drama series Dexter .

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Life and career

Maganini started out working on commercials in Chicago, [2] and then moved on to her first feature, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer , for which she was not only editor but also sound editor. [3] On Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, she collaborated with John McNaughton, a teaming that continued through a series of projects, often themed around sexuality, such as Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, Mad Dog and Glory , Push, Nevada and 1998 thriller Wild Things . [2] She was nominated for an award for the HBO miniseries If These Walls Could Talk , in the category of Outstanding Single Camera Editing for a Miniseries or Special.

She met the pinnacle of her career when she was contacted by episode director Michael Cuesta for Showtime TV drama series Dexter . She worked on 6 episodes of Dexter and won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2007 for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series [4] [5] for the pilot episode, Dexter . The episodes she worked on were " Dexter ", " Crocodile ", "Popping Cherry", " Return to Sender ", "Father Knows Best" and " Born Free ". Elena explaining why she took the job for Dexter, said that she had always been drawn to darker features.

"I have always been drawn to shows that have a dark theme. What’s interesting to me about Dexter is that it features a character who is extremely disturbed and yet is trying to present himself as someone normal; he says and does all the right things. When his dark side takes over, you are totally in his psychotic world. The intersection where these two things meet makes for a lot of tension."

Elena Maganini [2]

Filmography

YearFilm/ShowNotes
1986 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1991 The Borrower
1991Sex, Drugs, Rock & RollDocumentary
1992Eyes of the Prey
1992How Blue Can You Get?
1993 Mad Dog and Glory
1994Somebody to Love
1995 Four Rooms
1996 Normal Life
1996 Infinity
1996 If These Walls Could Talk Nominated — Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Editing for a Miniseries or Special
1998 Wild Things
1998 Louis & Frank
1999 Lansky
2000 Next Friday
2000Condo PaintingDocumentary
2000 In the Light of the Moon
2001 Speaking of Sex
2002 Push, Nevada
2003 Expert Witness
2003 Tarzan
2004–2006 Dr. Vegas 3 episodes
2005 Book of Swords
2005 8mm 2
2006Haskett's Chance
2006 Dexter 6 episodes
Won — Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series for episode " Dexter "
2007 The Dead Zone 5 episodes
2008–2009 Eli Stone 6 episodes
2009 NY-LON
2009–2010 Dollhouse 4 episodes
2010 Scoundrels 2 episodes
2010 90210 2 episodes
2021 Clarice 4 episodes

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