Pia Di Ciaula

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]

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

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

Film

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

Awards

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

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. 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.

External links

• An Evening with Pia Di Ciaula, CCE
• London Film Academy
• Pia Di Ciaula at IMDb
• Crittenden, Roger (2006). "Pia Di Ciaula". Fine cuts: the art of European film editing. Elsevier. pp. 341–350. ISBN   978-0-240-51684-4 . Retrieved 27 September 2010.
• Crittenden, Roger (2006). "Gillies MacKinnon, Pia Di Ciaula, and Roger Crittenden: A Conversation". Fine cuts: the art of European film editing. Elsevier. pp. 367–383. ISBN   978-0-240-51684-4 . Retrieved 27 September 2010.