About.
Stephanie Filo, ACE is a four-time Emmy, as well as Peabody and ACE Eddie Award-winning Film/Television Editor and activist based in Los Angeles, CA and Sierra Leone, West Africa. She serves on the board for Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone, a social impact and feminist-based organization for Sierra Leonean girls aged 11-16. She is one of the co-founders of End Ebola Now, an organization created in 2014 to spread accurate information and awareness about the Ebola Virus and its impact through artistic community activism.
Aside from editing television and film, Stephanie spends much of her spare time producing and editing social action campaigns and documentaries, primarily focused on the rights of women and girls worldwide. Some of her notable campaigns include her work with the United Nations, International Labour Organization, and the Obama White House Task Force's It's On Us campaign to combat campus sexual assault. Her charitable work has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, Telegraph UK, Yahoo, Al Jazeera, XWhy Magazine, and various others. Her work on the news documentary series "Mental State" earned her an Emmy nomination for the episode "Aging Out" about youth aging out of the American foster care system. She earned an Emmy win for her editing on the Mental State episode "Separated" which covered ICE deportations, making herself and Nzinga Blake the first Sierra Leonean women to ever win an Emmy award. In 2021, she won a Primetime Emmy award for her work on HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show", making her team the first all-Women of Color editing team to take home the award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. In 2022, she made history again as a member of the first all-black editing team to be nominated for and win both an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for "A Black Lady Sketch Show". In 2023, she made history again, as the first Picture Editor and first Black editor to ever be Emmy nominated for 3 different series at the same time. Most recently, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her work on the film "We Grown Now".
Recent Projects.
Horsegirls
Bow & Arrow Pictures/Mad Dog Films
Feature - Drama
Daredevil: Born Again
Marvel/Disney+
Television - Action/Drama
We Grown Now
Sony Pictures Classics/Participant
Feature - Drama
Dahmer - Monster
Netflix
Television - Drama/Period
History of the World Part II
Hulu
Television - Comedy
Acts of Crime
ABC Signature/UCP
Television - Drama
A Black Lady Sketch Show
HBO
Television - Comedy/Sketch
Mid-Century
Lionsgate
Feature - Horror
For Life
ABC
Television - Drama
The Grime
Sony
Television - Horror/Comedy
Surviving R Kelly
Lifetime
Television - Documentary Series
Root Letter
Ammo Entertainment
Feature - Thriller
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
Showtime
Television - Documentary Series
I'm With The Band: Nasty Cherry
Netflix
Television - Documentary Series
Mental State
Tribune Media
Television - Documentary Series
The Justice Project
Oxygen
Feature - Documentary
The Magic Hours
Dosshaus Entertainment
Feature - Drama
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Contact.
Worldwide Production Agency
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West Hollywood, CA 90048
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