
Joe Bini
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.
Credits
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Queer Edward IISupervising Editor2026
Queer Edward IIExecutive Producer2026
RemakeEditor2026- Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – GanymedeDirector2026
- Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – GanymedeWriter2026
- Burden of Other People's Dreams: Chapter One – GanymedeEditor2026
Pompei: Below the CloudsEditorial Consultant2025
The Voice of Hind RajabThanks2025
BirdEditor2024
Social StudiesSupervising Editor2024
My First FilmEditor2024
All the Beauty and the BloodshedEditor2022
9/11: One Day in AmericaStory Consultant2021
Little Ethiopia: Chez NousDirector2020
A Thousand ThoughtsDirector2018
DownsizingAdditional Editing2017
You Were Never Really HereEditor2017
Salt and FireEditor2016
American HoneyEditor2016
Into the InfernoEditor2016
The Hard StopExecutive Producer2016
Queen of the DesertEditor2015
Mr. RobotEditor2015
Tales of the Grim SleeperEditor2014
From One Second to the NextEditor2013
Into the AbyssEditor2011
We Need to Talk About KevinEditor2011
Cave of Forgotten DreamsEditor2010
Happy People: A Year in the TaigaEditor2010
The Tillman StoryEditor2010
The Tillman StoryWriter2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye DoneEditor2010
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansEditor2009
La BohèmeEditor2009
Encounters at the End of the WorldEditor2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and DesiredWriter2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and DesiredEditor2008
Rescue DawnEditor2007
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Sessionas Self2005
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' SessionEditor2005
The Wild Blue YonderEditor2005
Grizzly ManEditor2005
The White DiamondEditor2004
Wheel of TimeEditor2003- NumbEditor2003
Ten Minutes Older: The TrumpetEditor2002
InvincibleEditor2001
PilgrimageEditor2001
2000 Years of ChristianityEditor1999
Wings of HopeEditor1999
My Best FiendEditor1999
Little Dieter Needs to FlyEditor1997
POVEditor1988
Burden of Other People's Dreamsas Narrator—- Napoli 1990, Napoli 2023Editor—
Burden of Other People's DreamsDirector—
Burden of Other People's DreamsWriter—
Burden of Other People's DreamsEditor—