Ep 69: Official selection at Hot Docs 2019 - Editor Rosella Tursi

Rosella Tursi is the editor of the feature documentary Willie, an official selection at Hot Docs 2019 and a runner up for the Rogers Audience Award.

Originally from Montreal and now based in New York City, her recent credits include the documentary series Dirty Money (Netflix), Dark Net (Showtime), The Last Defense (ABC limited series executive produced by Viola Davis), Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (SundanceTV limited series executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio) and The Vice Guide to Film ( Viceland) as well as the documentary JFK: The Smoking Gun for which she earned a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Editing in a Documentary Program or Series.

Rosella's narrative credits include the award-winning Canadian series Mohawk Girls, the upcoming short, Junk, and several other short films. Her work has screened at the Montreal World Film Festival, Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Hot Docs and Tribeca Film Festival.

In 2011, Rosella was invited to lead a documentary film editing course at the Stories From Our Landworkshop for emerging Inuit filmmakers, held in Nunavut, in Canada’s arctic. She is currently making a short film with her wife, writer Christine Champagne, entitled George in My Backpack, which will begin shooting in the summer of 2019.

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