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Joe Bini

Joe Bini

Editor · San Mateo, California, USA

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Biography

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.

Edited 42

2010s

  1. 2017

    Downsizing

    Additional Editing

    56

  2. You Were Never Really Here

    Editor

    75
  3. 2016

    Salt and Fire

    Editor

    42

  4. American Honey

    Editor

    74

  5. Into the Inferno

    Editor

    77
  6. 2015

    Queen of the Desert

    Editor

    45

  7. Mr. Robot

    Editor

    84
  8. 2014

    Tales of the Grim Sleeper

    Editor

  9. 2013

    From One Second to the Next

    Editor

  10. 2011

    Into the Abyss

    Editor

  11. We Need to Talk About Kevin

    Editor

    73

  12. All That Glitters

    Editor

  13. 2010

    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    Editor

  14. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

    Editor

  15. The Tillman Story

    Editor

    81

  16. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

    Editor

    59

2000s

  1. 2009

    Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

    Editor

    70

  2. La Bohème

    Editor

  3. 2008

    Encounters at the End of the World

    Editor

  4. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Editor

  5. 2007

    Rescue Dawn

    Editor

    76
  6. 2005

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    Editor

  7. The Wild Blue Yonder

    Editor

    63

  8. Grizzly Man

    Editor

    82
  9. 2004

    The White Diamond

    Editor

  10. 2003

    Wheel of Time

    Editor

  11. 2002

    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    Editor

  12. 2001

    Invincible

    Editor

  13. Pilgrimage

    Editor

1990s

  1. 1999

    2000 Years of Christianity

    Editor

  2. Wings of Hope

    Editor

  3. My Best Fiend

    Editor

    76
  4. 1997

    Little Dieter Needs to Fly

    Editor

    82

1980s

  1. 1988

    POV

    Editor

    78

No release date

  1. Burden of Other People's Dreams

    Editor

Wrote 5

2010s

  1. 2011

    All That Glitters

    Screenplay

  2. 2010

    The Tillman Story

    Writer

    81

2000s

  1. 2008

    Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

    Writer

No release date

  1. Burden of Other People's Dreams

    Writer

Directed 3

2020s

  1. 2020

    Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous

    Director

2010s

  1. 2018

    A Thousand Thoughts

    Director

No release date

  1. Burden of Other People's Dreams

    Director

Produced 2

2020s

  1. 2026

    Queer Edward II

    Executive Producer

2010s

  1. 2016

    The Hard Stop

    Executive Producer

Appearances2

2000s

  1. 2005

    In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

    Self

No release date

  1. Burden of Other People's Dreams

    Narrator

Thanked in the credits1