Inspirational talk with guests og honour Maya Hawke & Joe Bini
Award-winning film editors Joe Bini and Maya Daisy Hawke are married to each other. In addition to editing films and teaching masterclasses, they also make 'live cinema'. Their work explores the power dynamics in filmmaking, and coupledom.
Maya Daisy Hawke was editor on Oscar and double Sundance Audience Award-winning Navalny, and Sugarcane, which won the Sundance Directing Award at Sundance 2024. She co-edited Cave of Forgotten Dreams (dir. Werner Herzog) with partner Joe Bini. Supervising and Consulting Editor credits include Joonam (Sundance 2023), Black Box Diaries (Sundance 2024), After a Revolution (IDFA 2022), A Photographic Memory (True/False 2024), Band (2022 HotDocs). She has also edited doc series for the BBC and commercials for Apple. Before that, she was an assistant editor on eight films with Werner Herzog, including Grizzly Man. Her own experimental films have been exhibited and performed at the Museum of Moving Image, NYC; Sundance FF; ICA Frames of Representation, London; LACMA; Camden International FF; and IDFA. She has been an advisor at seven Sundance labs since 2017, a fellow at the 2018 Sundance Nonfiction Directors Residency, and a Sundance Interdisciplinary Fellow in 2020. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Joe Bini is an editor, writer and director best known for his long-time collaboration with Werner Herzog on such notable documentaries as, “Little Dieter Needs to Fly,” “Grizzly Man,” "Cave of Forgotten Dreams," and “Into the Abyss,” and narrative films such as “Rescue Dawn,” and “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.” He has premiered six films at the Cannes Film Festival, including “American Honey,” directed by Andrea Arnold, as well as the Lynne Ramsay films, “We Need To Talk About Kevin” and “You Were Never Really Here,” for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Editor. He has an Emmy Award for Best Nonfiction Writing for the film, “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,” and he wrote and co-directed a live cinema piece about and featuring the Kronos Quartet called “A Thousand Thoughts,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has played in theatres worldwide. So far, in 2024, he has completed editing 2 narrative films and a television series and is beginning a new feature documentary.
Together, they created Little Ethiopia, a love story masterclass about two editors, which was performed seven times between 2018 and 2020. Described as 'art-house vaudeville', every show was different, sometimes edited and narrated live. They are developing a new project, Endless Fall: a masterclass in the film noir style.
In addition to the talk, two documentaries they have edited will be screened during the festival.
