Emiliano Battista

Historia

Editor Emiliano Battista is a London-based film editor of award winning feature documentaries, dramas and television programs. His films include 3 Minutes, Ten Bullets (Special Jury Prize Sundance 2015, HBO); How is your Fish Today? with Chinese novelist and film-maker Xiaolu Guo (Sundance 2007); The Intimacy of Strangers; The Solitary Life of Cranes, Black Out, and Night, Peace with Eva Weber; Elvis Pelvis (Berlin Film Festival); Dolce Vita Africana, a portrait of Malian photographer Malik Sidibe; The Runner by Saeed Taji Farouky; and The Auction House, a tale of two brothers about the oldest auction house in India. Emiliano has also worked on multi-screen art installations shown in major exhibitions and museums worldwide: All That is Solid Melts into Air and No Permanent Address with Mark Boulos.

Películas

Defiant
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Unique access to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and other key figures in the administration who are fighting to save their country against Russia’s invasion by combatting disinformation.
Phantom Parrot
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The revelation of a top-secret British surveillance programme brings down the dominoes in a dark and analytical film about technology, rights and structural racism – and about a man with the courage to speak out.
The Return
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It’s spring in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Uyantza festival is underway with the community celebrating all that the forest has to offer. Meanwhile, news is breaking around the world that a novel virus is spreading and a state of emergency is declared across the country. As people test positive for COVID-19 in the community, some families decide to leave and head deeper into the jungle. Disconnected from school, friends, the internet, and work, one family learns to reconnect with life in the forest. The children begin to unlearn the national curriculum, and instead are taught Indigenous knowledge that mainstream schools normally pass over. As COVID-19 wreaks havoc around the planet, the family reconnect to their ancestral ways, but as news arrives that Ecuador’s lockdown will end soon, will the family choose to return?
Marghe and Giulia
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A documentary following the lives of two baby YouTube influencers and their family. Sisters Marghe and Giulia, aged 9 and 12, are known as “Marghe Giulia Kawaii” by their over 300,000 followers and their videos have been viewed millions of times. The documentary examines the effects of their new found fame and explores its influence on their private lives, where daily habits and online sharing seem to constantly overlap.
H Is for Harry
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A coming of age story about Harry, a charismatic 11-year old boy, who arrives at secondary school in suburban London unable to read or write. With the help of Sophie, his extremely dedicated teacher, can he overcome the illiteracy ingrained across generations of his family? Against the backdrop of a Britain riven with debates around class, identity and social mobility, the film follows Harry over two years as he fights not only to improve academically but also to believe in a different future for himself.
Unrest
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En este desgarrador documental, una joven que prepara su tesis doctoral recurre a la cámara para dar visibilidad a su lucha diaria contra el síndrome de fatiga crónica.
Harry Styles: Behind the Album
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Chronicles Harry’s musical journey while creating his much anticipated debut solo album. The film features exclusive interviews and behind the scenes footage shot in Jamaica, Los Angeles and London during the making of the album and is complemented by Harry and his band performing songs from it for the first time at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London.
3 Minutos Y Medio 12 Balas
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Viernes negro, el día después de Acción de Gracias, noviembre de 2012, cuatro muchachos en una camioneta roja entran en una gasolinera después de pasar tiempo en el centro comercial y hablando con las niñas. Con música a todo volumen, un niño sale del coche y entra en la tienda, una parada rápida para un refresco y un paquete de chicles. Un hombre y una mujer se detienen junto a los chicos de la estación, haciendo una parada para comprar una botella de vino. La mujer entra en la tienda y un algo estalla cuando el conductor del segundo coche pide a los chicos bajar la música. 3 1/2 minutos y diez balas más tarde, uno de los muchachos está muerto. 3 1/2 MINUTOS disecciona las secuelas de este encuentro fatal.
The Guvnors
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The Guvnors es a la vez una carta de amor y un mensaje de odio al macho alfa. La historia de este alpha es Mitch que vive enterrado en los suburbios de Londres, después de haber dado la espalda a su anterior vida de violencia e intimidación como parte de una legendaria banda del sudeste de Londres. En la actualidad es el decano de la respetabilidad y la calma confianza. Esta película pone un espejo frente a Mitch y le muestra su monstruo interno, una vez más, enterrado profundamente tanto en su ADN como en su psique, desesperado por romper y causar estragos.
Lost Every Day
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Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears
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Two Bangladeshi girls born and raised in London have weddings arranged for them against their will by their family. Shahanara, the rebel of the family, banished from the family in her teens for being "too Western", has to swap her pink hot pants for a sari as she goes off to the airport to meet her new Bangladeshi husband. Her sister Hushnara is the opposite of Shahanara; a devout Muslim who agrees to marry so she doesn't upset her parents.
How Is Your Fish Today?
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Un escritor realiza el viaje soñado entre la ciudad y el pueblo, la realidad y la ficción, en una caótica China contemporánea. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Intimacy of Strangers
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You use to have to make an effort to overhear other people's intimate conversations. Now you have to make an effort not to. The Intimacy of Strangers is a story of life, love, loss and hope - entirely constructed out of real, overheard mobile phone conversations
The Concrete Revolution
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Examine the tremendous moral and human cost of creating a 'New China' for the 2008 Olympics. As traditional communities are bulldozed to make way for modern high-rise apartments and ancient traditions are cast aside, just who is benefitting?
Clean
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A woman's love letter and final goodbye to heroin, as she attempts to come off the synthetic opiates that have kept her clean for the past six years.