Joe Bini
Known For: Editing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Queer Edward II ... (Supervising Editor)
- Remake ... (Editor)
- Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – Ganymede ... (Director)
2025
- The Voice of Hind Rajab ... (Thanks)
- Pompei: Below the Clouds ... (Editorial Consultant)
2024
- Bird ... (Editor)
- Social Studies ... (Supervising Editor)
- My First Film ... (Editor)
2022
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed ... (Editor)
2021
- 9/11: One Day in America ... (Story Consultant)
2020
- Little Ethiopia: Chez Nous ... (Director)
2018
- A Thousand Thoughts ... (Director)
2017
- Downsizing ... (Additional Editing)
- You Were Never Really Here ... (Editor)
2016
- American Honey ... (Editor)
- Salt and Fire ... (Editor)
- Into the Inferno ... (Editor)
- The Hard Stop ... (Executive Producer)
2015
- Mr. Robot ... (Editor)
- Queen of the Desert ... (Editor)
2014
- Tales of the Grim Sleeper ... (Editor)
2013
- From One Second to the Next ... (Editor)
2011
- We Need to Talk About Kevin ... (Editor)
- Into the Abyss ... (Editor)
2010
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done ... (Editor)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams ... (Editor)
- The Tillman Story ... (Editor)
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga ... (Editor)
2009
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ... (Editor)
- La Bohème ... (Editor)
2008
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired ... (Editor)
2007
- Rescue Dawn ... (Editor)
- Encounters at the End of the World ... (Editor)
2005
- Grizzly Man ... (Editor)
- The Wild Blue Yonder ... (Editor)
- In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session as Self
2004
- The White Diamond ... (Editor)
2003
- Wheel of Time ... (Editor)
- Numb ... (Editor)
2002
- Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet ... (Editor)
2001
- Invincible ... (Editor)
- Pilgrimage ... (Editor)
1999
- My Best Fiend ... (Editor)
- Wings of Hope ... (Editor)
- 2000 Years of Christianity ... (Editor)
1997
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly ... (Editor)
1988
- POV ... (Editor)