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Pia Di Ciaula | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Ryerson |
| Occupation | Film editor |
Pia Di Ciaula ACE, CCE is a BAFTA winning Canadian film editor. She is best known for editing A Very English Scandal, The Crown [1] and Tyrannosaur. [2]
Di Ciaula was one of six daughters born to Italian parents in Toronto. Her father was a dental technician. She attended Ryerson to study photography, where she discovered film editing in the second year. [3]
Upon graduation she initially worked as a camera assistant. She worked as assistant editor on a Paul Saltzman project as part of Sunrise Films. She then worked as an assistant sound effects editor on long-running programme Danger Bay, moving on to dialogue assistant and then picture assistant. [3]
Di Ciaula met Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon at the Toronto International Film Festival where he was interviewing for roles for his upcoming film, Regeneration (1997). He hired Di Ciaula, who moved to the UK where they worked together on seven films, including Hideous Kinky (1998), The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) and Pure (2002). [4]
Di Ciaula's collaboration with director David Blair resulted in the multi-Emmy and BAFTA award winning show The Street (2006) and Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008).
Di Ciaula's first collaboration with Paddy Considine on Tyrannosaur won approximately 40 awards world-wide, including Sundance Film Festival, British Independent Film Awards and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Their collaboration continued on his second film Journeyman which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2017.
Di Ciaula's most recent film was The Union , directed by Julian Farino and released by Netflix.
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1987-1990 | Danger Bay [5] | 21 episodes |
| 1992 | Road to Avonlea | 3 episodes |
| 1993 | Matrix | 7 episodes |
| 1993-1994 | Ready or Not | 4 episodes |
| 1994 | Squawk Box | 1 episode |
| RoboCop | 1 episode | |
| 2003 | A Tale of Two Wives (AKA Double Bill) | |
| 2004 | Gunpowder, Treason & Plot [6] | Mini-series |
| 2007-2009 | The Street | 4 episodes |
| 2008 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Mini-series |
| Burn Up | Mini-series | |
| 2009 | Blood and Oil | |
| The Fattest Man in Britain | ||
| 2010 | 'Strike Back | 2 episodes |
| 2016-2017 | The Crown [7] | 3 episodes |
| 2018 | A Very English Scandal [8] | Mini-series |
| 2020 | Quiz |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Hush Little Baby | TV film | |
| 1994 | Another Woman | TV film | |
| 1995 | Deadly Love | Jorge Montesi | TV film |
| Falling for You | TV film | ||
| Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story | Paul Shapiro | TV film | |
| Dancing in the Dark | TV film | ||
| Visitors of the Night | TV film | ||
| 1996 | The Deliverance of Elaine | TV film | |
| Intimate Relations [9] | Philip Goodhew | ||
| Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? | Jorge Montesi | TV film | |
| Night Visitors | TV film | ||
| 1997 | Regeneration (AKA Behind the Lines) [10] | Gillies MacKinnon | |
| 1998 | The Real Howard Spitz | Vadim Jean | |
| Hideous Kinky [11] | Gillies MacKinnon | ||
| 1999 | The Last Yellow | ||
| 2000 | Nora [12] | Pat Murphy | |
| The Last of the Blonde Bombshells [13] | Gillies MacKinnon | TV film | |
| 2002 | The Escapist [14] | Gillies MacKinnon | |
| Pure [15] | Gillies MacKinnon | ||
| The One and Only [16] | Simon Cellan Jones | ||
| 2003 | Byron | Julian Farino | TV film |
| 2005 | Tara Road | Gillies MacKinnon | |
| 2006 | Mysterious Creatures | David Evans | TV film |
| 2007 | Stuart: A Life Backwards | TV film | |
| Silk [17] | François Girard | ||
| 2011 | Tyrannosaur | Paddy Considine | |
| 2012 | Best Laid Plans | David Blair | |
| Bert and Dickie | David Blair | ||
| 2013 | The Liability | Craig Viveiros | |
| Belle [18] | Amma Asante | ||
| 2014 | The Journey Home | Roger Spottiswoode, Brando Quilici | |
| 2016 | Altamira | Hugh Hudson | |
| A Quiet Passion [19] | Terence Davies | ||
| 2017 | Journeyman | Paddy Considine | |
| 2019 | Hope Gap | William Nicholson | |
| Dirt Music [20] | Gregor Jordan | ||
| 2021 | Silent Night [21] | Camille Griffin | |
| 2022 | The Lost King [22] | Stephen Frears | |
| 2024 | The Union | Julian Farino |
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Best Editor for Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story | Gemini Award | Nominated |
| 1996 | Best Editor for Intimate Relations | Gemini Award | Nominated |
| 1997 | Best Editor for Regeneration | Gemini Award | Nominated |
| 2016 | Best Editor for The Crown Season 2, Ep 9 Paterfamilias | British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Editing: Fiction | Nominated |
| Best Editor for The Crown Season 2, Ep 9 Paterfamilias | Canadian Cinema Editors Award | Won | |
| 2018 | Best Editor for A Very English Scandal | British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Editing: Fiction | Won |
| Best Editor for A Very English Scandal | Canadian Cinema Editors Award | Nominated | |
| 2020 | Award for Editor - Drama for Quiz | Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards | Won |
| Best Editor for Quiz [23] | BAFTA | Nominated |
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