Elena Toccafondi is an award-winning documentary editor and creative producer based in NYC. She loves working on character-driven stories and projects about activism and social issues.

 

Elena has worked on 10+ feature documentaries, including Netflix’s critically acclaimed Amanda Knox and Miracle on 42nd Street, which won the 2020 New York Emmy Award for Best Documentary. Among other projects, she edited I Am The Revolution (RAI CINEMA), a feature documentary about three women fighting for gender equality and freedom in the Middle East - it premiered at DOC NYC 2018.

 

Some of the doc series she worked on are First Team: Juventus (Netflix), Deadly Cults 2 (Oxygen), NBC Dateline and Counter Space (VICE).

 

She also edits short films and branded content. Her clients include:

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• Netflix

• Amazon 

• CNBC 

• NBC

• VICE

• iHeart Radio

• Vogue

• Al Jazeera

• TRT World 

• SCAD 

 

In her free time, Elena likes to watch movies and draw anthropomorphic insects.

She is a native Italian speaker, fluent in English and proficient in Spanish. 

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