Pia Di Ciaula

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Pia Di Ciaula
NationalityCanadian
Education Ryerson
OccupationFilm 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]

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Personal life and education

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]

Early career

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]

Meeting Gillies MacKinnon and beyond

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.

Television

YearTitleNotes
1987-1990 Danger Bay [5] 21 episodes
1992 Road to Avonlea 3 episodes
1993 Matrix 7 episodes
1993-1994 Ready or Not 4 episodes
1994Squawk Box1 episode
RoboCop 1 episode
2003A 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
2009Blood 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

Film

YearTitleDirectorNotes
1993Hush Little BabyTV film
1994Another WomanTV film
1995 Deadly Love Jorge MontesiTV film
Falling for YouTV film
Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story Paul ShapiroTV film
Dancing in the DarkTV film
Visitors of the NightTV film
1996The Deliverance of ElaineTV film
Intimate Relations [9] Philip Goodhew
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? Jorge MontesiTV film
Night VisitorsTV film
1997 Regeneration (AKA Behind the Lines) [10] Gillies MacKinnon
1998 The Real Howard Spitz Vadim Jean
Hideous Kinky [11] Gillies MacKinnon
1999The Last Yellow
2000 Nora [12] Pat Murphy
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells [13] Gillies MacKinnonTV film
2002 The Escapist [14] Gillies MacKinnon
Pure [15] Gillies MacKinnon
The One and Only [16] Simon Cellan Jones
2003 Byron Julian FarinoTV film
2005 Tara Road Gillies MacKinnon
2006 Mysterious Creatures David EvansTV 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

Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
1995Best Editor for Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story Gemini Award Nominated
1996Best Editor for Intimate Relations Gemini Award Nominated
1997Best Editor for Regeneration Gemini Award Nominated
2016Best 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 AwardWon
2018Best 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 AwardNominated
2020Award for Editor - Drama for Quiz Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards Won
Best Editor for Quiz [23] BAFTA Nominated

References

  1. Charles Miller (18 March 2012). "How they make The Crown sparkle". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  2. "EDITING MASTERCLASS WITH PIA DI CIAULA AND RICK BARKER". rts.org.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  3. 1 2 Crittenden, Roger (2006). Fine Cuts The Art of European Film Editing. Oxford, UK: Routledge. p. 343. ISBN   978-0240516844.
  4. Crittenden, Roger (2005). Fine Cuts:The Art of European Film Editing. London, UK: Routledge. p. 40. ISBN   9780080454481.
  5. Cotter, Bill (1997). The wonderful world of Disney television : a complete history. New York, USA: Hyperion. p. 578. ISBN   0786863595.
  6. Crittenden, Roger (2005). Fine Cuts:The Art of European Film Editing. London, UK: Routledge. p. 40. ISBN   9780080454481.
  7. "Q&A: Pia Di Ciaula, Editor on 'The Crown'". londonfilmacademy.com. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  8. "EDITING: FICTION - PIA DI CIAULA, A Very English Scandal". bafta.org. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  9. Janet Marlin (17 September 1997). "Not Just the Same Old Illicit Sex". nytimes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  10. Crittenden, Roger (2005). Fine Cuts:The Art of European Film Editing. London, UK: Routledge. p. 341. ISBN   9780080454481.
  11. Crittenden, Roger (2005). Fine Cuts:The Art of European Film Editing. London, UK: Routledge. p. 341. ISBN   9780080454481.
  12. Meaney, Gerardine (2004). Nora. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. p. 78. ISBN   1859182917.
  13. Crittenden, Roger (2005). Fine Cuts:The Art of European Film Editing. London, UK: Routledge. p. 341. ISBN   9780080454481.
  14. Crittenden, Roger (2005). Fine Cuts:The Art of European Film Editing. London, UK: Routledge. p. 341. ISBN   9780080454481.
  15. Crittenden, Roger (2005). Fine Cuts:The Art of European Film Editing. London, UK: Routledge. p. 341. ISBN   9780080454481.
  16. James, Cameron-Wilson (2003). Film review 2003-2004. London, UK: Reynolds & Hearn. p. 93. ISBN   9781903111680.
  17. Darvell, Michael (2008). Film review 2008-2009. London, UK: Reynolds & Hearn. p. 131. ISBN   9781905287796.
  18. Darvell, Michael (2015). Film review 2014-2015. Cambridge, UK: Signum Books. p. 34. ISBN   9780957648173.
  19. "A Quiet Passion 2016". nziff.co.nz. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  20. "Pia Di Ciaula". screenaustralia.gov.au. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  21. Guy Lodge (16 September 2021). "'Silent Night' Review: A Seasonal Blend of Genres That Gives New Meaning to 'Last Christmas'". variety.com. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  22. David Canfield (2 September 2022). "Sally Hawkins Finds (and Takes) the Crown in The Lost King". vanityfair.com. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  23. Harrison Bennett (29 January 2021). "Editor Pia Di Ciaula on piecing together the big puzzle of ITV's Quiz". rts.org.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2024.