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Chiara Rossini

Film editor · Narrative & documentary · Los Angeles

Chiara Rossini

Seven years cutting narrative and documentary features — with editorial credits on a Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee and a Venice Official Selection.

  • 7years in post-production
  • 6selected credits, 2020–2025
  • 4festival selections and nominations
  • 2working languages — Italian, English

Selected credits

Features, documentary and series

Editorial credits across narrative features, documentary and a limited series.

Feature · 2025 · Editor

The Salt Line

Feature, directed by Mara DeVito.

Feature · IT/US co-production · 2024 · Editor

Confini

Italian–American co-production, directed by Luca Ferri.

Venice Film Festival Official Selection

Documentary · 2023 · Editor

Still Here

Documentary, directed by James Okafor.

Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee

Feature · 2022 · Additional editor

Una Notte Sola

Feature, directed by Sofia Amendola.

Tribeca Official Selection

Limited series · 6 episodes · 2021 · Editor

Borderline

Editor on episodes 3, 6 and 8 of a six-part limited series.

Released on streaming (MUBI)

Documentary · 2020 · Director and editor

Roots Abroad

Her own documentary, which she directed and edited.

Hot Docs Official Selection

An editor for features, limited series and documentary, fluent in Italian and English.

Chiara has seven years in narrative and documentary post-production, from additional editor on a Tribeca selection to editor on a Venice Official Selection and a Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee. She trained at the AFI Conservatory after a first degree in cinema in Rome, and works across Avid, Premiere, Resolve and Pro Tools dialogue edits.

  • Based inLos Angeles
  • StatusItalian citizen, O-1A visa
  • LanguagesItalian, English
  • Available forFeatures, limited series, documentary
  • TrainingAFI Conservatory, MFA

Post-production

Tools of the cut

  • Avid Media Composer
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Pro Tools (dialogue edit)
  • Frame.io
  • LUT design
  • SFX assembly

Recognition

Festivals and nominations

  • Best Editing — nomineeItalian National Syndicate of Film Journalists · 2025
  • Venice Film Festival — Official SelectionConfini · 2024
  • Sundance Grand Jury Prize — nominee, as editorStill Here · 2023
  • Hot Docs — Official SelectionRoots Abroad · 2020

Education

Training

  1. 2016 — 2018

    MFA, Film Editing

    American Film Institute Conservatory, Los Angeles

    Fellowship Award.

  2. 2012 — 2016

    BA, Cinema & Media Studies

    Sapienza University of Rome

    110/110 cum laude.

Contact

Cutting something?

chiara.rossini@email.com

  • Los Angeles, CA
  • chiararossini.com
  • imdb.com/name/nm9876543

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