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, working across narrative, documentary, animation, music videos and commercials.
My latest feature, 7 Miles Out, directed by Carol Morley, will be premiering at the BFI London Festival.
Recent projects also include the Scottish film Salvation, which premiered at TIFF in 2026, and Ghost School, set in Pakistan, which had its premiere at TIFF ‘25 before screening at Berlinale ‘26.
I edited my first feature, Trapping, for BAFTA and BIFA nominated filmmaker Penny Woolcock. I’ve since cut several features, including 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 edited three episodes of the thriller series Curfew, for Paramount+, and an episode of the sci-fi drama The Rig S2, for Amazon Studios. I also cut 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.
The shorts I edited over the last decade 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 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 and Goldsmiths.
Born in Bucharest, Romania, I moved to the UK at a young age.