Editor
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Represented by United Agents:
Eliza McWilliams
emcwilliams@unitedagents.co.uk

direct email: rv.petre@gmail.com


I’m a film editor based in London, UK.

My work spans across narrative, documentary, animation, music videos and commercials, with shorts that screened at the Venice International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, AFI FEST, BFI London Film Festival, Aesthetica, Doclisboa, London Short Film Festival and Annecy.
My documentary projects were awarded at Open City Documentary Festival and shortlisted for a Grierson Award.
I’ve edited films commissioned by the BFI, Disney, Sky Arts and Channel 4.
In 2023, I was named a BFI Film London Lodestar.



I edited my first feature, Trapping, for BAFTA and BIFA nominated filmmaker Penny Woolcock and have since cut several features. This includes Portraits of Dangerous Women, starring Screen Star of Tomorrow Yasmin Monet Prince and Tara Fitzgerald, and the documentary Doppelgangers3, produced by the Sundance Institute / BFI Doc Society, which premiered at SXSW.
I was also assembly editor on Layla, produced by Film 4 / BFI, which premiered at Sundance and LFF.

For TV, I recently edited three episodes of the thriller series Curfew, for Paramount+, and an episode of the upcoming eco-drama The Rig S2, for Amazon Studios. I also edited the Grime episode within The Evolution of Black British Music, a music documentary series that won a Royal Television Society award for Best Arts Programme.

I aim to bring sensitivity and curiosity to the material I edit, while I also enjoy being creative with form to tell stories in unexpected ways.

I started out by learning the craft as an assistant editor on award winning features, TV dramas and documentaries. Credits include Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight), His Dark Materials (BBC/HBO), Goodbye Christopher Robin (Fox Searchlight), Dolittle (Universal) and Broadchurch series 3 (ITV), among others.

I graduated with distinction from the National Film & Television School’s MA in Editing and have a BA in History and Politics from Oxford University. I have a musical background, so I get excited about finding the rhythm and timing inherent to every project.

I am a Berlinale Talents alumna, a BAFTA Connect and British Film Editors member.
I’m also a visiting tutor at the NFTS.

Born in Bucharest, Romania, I moved to the UK at a young age.