Joe Bini

Editor, Writer, Producer

January 1, 1963 (63 years)
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.

FreeMovies & Shows on Plex

  • Rescue Dawn
    Rescue Dawn
  • The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
  • Grizzly Man
    Grizzly Man
  • Queen of the Desert
    Queen of the Desert
  • My Best Fiend
    My Best Fiend
  • Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
    Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
  • Little Dieter Needs to Fly
    Little Dieter Needs to Fly
  • The Tillman Story
    The Tillman Story
  • The Wild Blue Yonder
    The Wild Blue Yonder
  • Salt and Fire
    Salt and Fire
  • Wheel of Time
    Wheel of Time
  • On Death Row
    On Death Row
    1 Season

Known For

  • You Were Never Really Here
    You Were Never Really Here
  • Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  • 9/11: One Day in America
    9/11: One Day in America
    6 Episodes
  • The Tillman Story
    Free
    The Tillman Story
  • The Hard Stop
    The Hard Stop
  • Iago
    Iago

Filmography

2019
Iago · as Co-Producer
2015
The Hard Stop · as Executive Producer

2025
Pompei: Below the Clouds · as Editorial Consultant
2024
Social Studies (2024) · as Supervising Editor
2021
9/11: One Day in America · as Story Consultant
2017
Downsizing · as Additional Editing