Yaël Bitton is an award winning documentary film editor, writer, story consultant,
and director with over 25 years of experience in the industry. She has won the
SIMA Editing Award for Radio Silence (2020), Best Editing at the Israel
Documentary Forum for Advocate (2019), and the Adobe Dok Fest Editing
Award for KIX (2024).
She was invited by the NCE to give a masterclass at IDFA 2023. She is a
member of the Oscars Academy documentary branch.
Yaël has collaborated with documentary filmmakers around the world, working
on films that have been recognised at major festivals including Cannes,
Sundance, Venice, and IDFA… Over the last few years she has edited and
written (among many others) with director Petra Costa, whose latest film
Apocalypse in the Tropics screened at Venice film festival (2024) ; with Anirban
Dutta and Anupama Srinivisan on Nocturnes (2024), which won the World
Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Craft; with Balint Revesz and
David Mikulan on KIX (2024) which garnered the FIPRESCI Award at GoEast
2024, the Camera Justitia award and the Aljazeera Impact award at Movies that
matter 2024, and several prizes at ZagrebDox 2024; with Rahul Jain whose
latest film Invisible Demons (2021) premiered at the Cannes film Festival that
Year and whose first film Machines (2015) won numerous prizes worldwide ; with
Felipe Monroy on three films, including the powerful Hijos del Viento (2021); with
Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche on Advocate (20219) which won,
among many awards, the Emmy award for Best documentary, the Asia Pacific
Screen awards for best documentary feature; and with Juliana Fanjul on there
two feature films Radio SIlence (2019) and Muchachas (2014),
In addition to her editing work, Yaël is a sought-after mentor, consultant, and
educator, working with prestigious programs such as Rough Cut Service, Docs
Nomads, Zelig Documentary film school, DOK Incubator, Visions du Réel, and
Ex Oriente. She has been teaching editing at HEAD/Cinéma du Réel in Geneva
since 2008 and was invited as a fellow teacher at Barnard College/Columbia
University in New York for the Spring semester of 2024.
Her most recent projects as an editor include Ceux qui veillent by Karima Saïdi
(2024), La muraille by Callisto Mc Nulty (2024), and The World is Not (A) Mine by
Natalia Korniaz (2024) , soon to be premiering at major international festivals.