
Editor
Joe Bini
San Mateo, California, USA · 37 films
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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Filmography 36

Remake
2026 · Editor


Bird
2024 · Editor
On MUBI


My First Film
2024 · Editor
On MUBI


All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022 · Editor
On Kanopy

Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous
2020 · Director

A Thousand Thoughts
2018 · Director


You Were Never Really Here
2017 · Editor
On Amazon MX Player


Salt and Fire
2016 · Editor
On Plex


American Honey
2016 · Editor
On Plex Channel


Into the Inferno
2016 · Editor
On Netflix


Queen of the Desert
2015 · Editor
On Plex

Tales of the Grim Sleeper
2014 · Editor

From One Second to the Next
2013 · Editor


Into the Abyss
2011 · Editor
On Philo


We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011 · Editor
On OVID

All That Glitters
2011 · Screenplay, Editor


Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 · Editor
On AMC+


Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
2010 · Editor
On Brew


The Tillman Story
2010 · Editor, Writer
On Plex


My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · Editor
On Kanopy


Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009 · Editor
On Plex

La Bohème
2009 · Editor

Encounters at the End of the World
2008 · Editor

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008 · Editor, Writer


