Pia Di Ciaula

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.

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

Film

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

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

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

Award for Editor - Drama for Quiz Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards Best Editor for Quiz BAFTA