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.

Meeting Gillies MacKinnon and beyond

Di Ciaula met Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon at the Toronto International Film Festival where he was interviewing for roles for his upcoming film, Regeneration. He hired Di Ciaula, who moved to the UK where they worked together on seven films, including Hideous Kinky, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells and Pure.
Di Ciaula's collaboration with director David Blair resulted in the multi-Emmy and BAFTA award winning show The Street and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
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.