Joe Bini
Joe Bini is an American film editor, born in 1963 in San Mateo, California, best known for his two-decade collaboration with Werner Herzog, having edited twenty-seven of his documentaries and narrative features, including Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Grizzly Man (2005), Rescue Dawn (2007), the Oscar-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (2007), and Into the Inferno (2016). He won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming and the 2008 Documentary Editing Award for Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, and has also edited narrative features for Andrea Arnold (American Honey) and Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin, You Were Never Really Here). He served on the documentary jury at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and edited Remake (2025), directed by Ross McElwee.
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Movies (45)
Queer Edward II
2026 · Supervising Editor, Executive Producer
Remake
2026 · Editor
Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede
2026 · Director, Writer, Editor
Pompei: Below the Clouds
2025 · Editorial Consultant
The Voice of Hind Rajab
2025 · Thanks
Bird
2024 · Editor
My First Film
2024 · Editor
La belleza y el dolor
2022 · Editor
Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous
2020 · Director
A Thousand Thoughts
2018 · Director
Pequeña gran vida
2017 · Additional Editing
Nunca estarás a salvo
2017 · Editor
Sal y Fuego
2016 · Editor
Dulzura americana
2016 · Editor
Dentro del volcán
2016 · Editor
The Hard Stop
2016 · Executive Producer
La reina del desierto
2015 · Editor
Tales of the Grim Sleeper
2014 · Editor
From One Second to the Next
2013 · Editor
Into the Abyss
2011 · Editor
Tenemos que hablar de Kevin
2011 · Editor
All That Glitters
2011 · Screenplay, Editor
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · Editor
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010 · Editor
The Tillman Story
2010 · Editor, Writer
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · Editor
Un Maldito Policia en Nueva Orleans
2009 · Editor
La Bohème
2009 · Editor
Encounters at the End of the World
2008 · Editor
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008 · Writer, Editor
Rescate al amanecer
2007 · Editor
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005 · Self, Editor
The Wild Blue Yonder
2005 · Editor
El Hombre Oso
2005 · Editor
The White Diamond
2004 · Editor
Wheel of Time
2003 · Editor
Numb
2003 · Editor
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 · Editor
Invincible
2001 · Editor
Pilgrimage
2001 · Editor
Wings of Hope
1999 · Editor
My Best Fiend
1999 · Editor
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997 · Editor
Burden of Other People's Dreams
· Narrator, Director, Writer, Editor
Napoli 1990, Napoli 2023
· Editor
