Pia Di Ciaula ACE, CCE is a BAFTA winning Canadian film editor. She is best known for editing A Very English Scandal, The Crown and Tyrannosaur.
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.
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.
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).
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 YearTitleNotes1987-1990Danger Bay21 episodes1992Road to Avonlea3 episodes1993Matrix7 episodes1993-1994Ready or Not4 episodes1994Squawk Box1 episodeRoboCop1 episode2003A Tale of Two Wives (AKA Double Bill)2004Gunpowder, Treason & PlotMini-series2007-2009The Street4 episodes2008Tess of the D'UrbervillesMini-seriesBurn UpMini-series2009Blood and OilThe Fattest Man in Britain2010Strike Back2 episodes2016-2017The Crown3 episodes2018A Very English ScandalMini-series2020Quiz
Film YearTitleDirectorNotes1993Hush Little Baby TV film1994Another Woman TV film1995Deadly LoveJorge Montesi TV filmFalling for You TV filmChoices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger StoryPaul Shapiro TV filmDancing in the Dark TV filmVisitors of the Night TV film1996The Deliverance of Elaine TV filmIntimate RelationsPhilip Goodhew Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?Jorge Montesi TV filmNight Visitors TV film1997Regeneration (AKA Behind the Lines)Gillies MacKinnon 1998The Real Howard SpitzVadim Jean Hideous KinkyGillies MacKinnon 1999The Last Yellow 2000NoraPat Murphy The Last of the Blonde BombshellsGillies MacKinnon TV film2002The EscapistGillies MacKinnonPureGillies MacKinnon The One and OnlySimon Cellan Jones 2003ByronJulian Farino TV film2005Tara RoadGillies MacKinnon 2006Mysterious CreaturesDavid EvansTV film2007Stuart: A Life Backwards TV filmSilkFrançois Girard 2011TyrannosaurPaddy Considine 2012Best Laid PlansDavid Blair Bert and DickieDavid Blair2013The LiabilityCraig ViveirosBelleAmma Asante2014The Journey Home Roger Spottiswoode, Brando Quilici2016AltamiraHugh HudsonA Quiet PassionTerence Davies2017JourneymanPaddy Considine2019Hope GapWilliam NicholsonDirt MusicGregor Jordan2021Silent NightCamille Griffin2022The Lost KingStephen Frears2024The UnionJulian Farino
Awards
| 1995 | Best Editor for Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story | Gemini Award
| 1996 | Best Editor for Intimate Relations | Gemini Award
| 1997 | Best Editor for Regeneration | Gemini Award
| rowspan="2"|2016 | Best Editor for The Crown Season 2, Ep 9 Paterfamilias | British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Editing: Fiction
| Best Editor for The Crown Season 2, Ep 9 Paterfamilias | Canadian Cinema Editors Award
| rowspan="2"|2018 | Best Editor for A Very English Scandal | British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Editing: Fiction
| Best Editor for A Very English Scandal | Canadian Cinema Editors Award
| rowspan="2"|2020 | Award for Editor - Drama for Quiz | Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards
| Best Editor for Quiz | BAFTA
References
External links
An Evening with Pia Di Ciaula, CCE London Film Academy