Elisa Bonora

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Best editing award at the Boston Film Festival for the documentary “ The Turning Point, 2018"
ACE Eddie Award nomination for the documentary “Glen Campbell…I’LL BE ME”, 2015
Emmy Award nomination as the co-producer/editor of the documentary film “No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos”, 2010
Golden and Bronze Lion winner at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, 1997

ABOUT:
Elisa was born in Milan, Italy and graduated in Film Editing after winning a scholarship at Albedo Cinematografica. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue her editing career and began working in advertising at Red Car with editor/director Larry Bridges. Shortly after, she started working exclusively for DGA winning commercial director, Joe Pytka and edited campaigns for Pepsi, Lee Jeans, Nike, Gap, Sony, Levis and others. She later opened her Venice, California editing company, Us2 Editorial and collaborated with a wide range of directors, including Tony Kaye, Marcus Nispel, David Cornell and Anthony Hoffman.

Elisa’s first breakthrough in long format editing occurred when Oliver Stone asked her to edit Comandante, a feature length documentary about Fidel Castro. Following the success of Comandante, she collaborated with Oscar winner Pietro Scalia to edit the film “Ashes and Snow”, directed by Canadian artist Gregory Colbert.

In 2008, Elisa opened Airstream Film in Topanga, California and edited co-produced the feature length documentary No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos, directed by James Chressanthis, which premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2011, she edited the feature length documentary, This Space Available, directed by Gwenaëlle Gobé, Oliver Stone documentary, South of the Border, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In 2012, she was the Additional Editor on Gabriela Cowperthwite’s documentary Blackfish, which was shortlisted for the Oscars and received an ACE Eddie nomination.

Elisa co-produced and partially edited Cecilia Peck’s “Brave Miss World”, which was nominated for an Emmy in 2014. She cut “Rising From Ashes”, directed by TC Johnstone and executive produced by Forest Whitaker. Following these projects, she supervised the editing of Malachi Leopold’s Alex & Ali, winner of the Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

In 2014 Elisa edited James Keach’s Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me, which opened at the Nashville Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize. The film has been met with critical acclaim and audience recognition, receiving nominations for an ACE Eddie Award, 2 Grammy Awards, a Satellite Award and a Critics Choice Award in 2015 and an Oscar nomination for best song.

After her collaboration on the Oscar’s short listed documentaries The Ivory Game, directed by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani, and Bending The Arc by Perdo Kos and Kief Davidson, and Franca, Chaos and Creation by Francesco Carrozzini, in 2016 Elisa edited Augie and The Turning Point by James Keach and In 2018 Elisa edited the Ghost Fleet By Shannon Service and Jeff Waldron that premiered in Telluride and screened at TIFF and Berlin Film festival, and the Grammy nominated documentary film David Crosby: Remember My Name by AJ Eaton, produced by Cameron Crowe, that premiered in Sundance 2019.

In 2020 Elisa edited Still Working 9 to 5, directed by Camille Hardman and Gary Lane, a documentary film based on Jane Fonda’s feature film 9 to 5 and the women’s secretarial movement from the 70s until today. The film premiered in SXSW in 2022. Elisa also edited the TV series Heist for Netflix by Dereck Doneen and the feature length documentary Race 2 Dinner premiering at Hot DOCS in 2022.In 2021 Elisa moved to Holywood, Northern Ireland, UK and in collaboration with Giordano Bonora Groome opened REDWOLF FILMS, a company geared toward production and postproduction. Their first feature length documentary Deep Rising by Matthieu Rytz was selected for Sundance Film Festival 2023. Since 2021 Redwolf Films has edited 2 more feature length documentaries Nothing But Net by Billy Raftery and Maestra by Maggy Contreras and are currently editing the documentary Kenny Loggins, Conviction of the Heart and the Kenneth Cole documentary by Dori Berinstein . Please check their website for more informations at Redwolf-films.com.