Mathilde Bonnefoy (born 11 March 1972) is a French film editor and director who was nominated for an ACE Eddie Award for the editing of the film
Run Lola Run (1998) and who won the award for editing the documentary
Citizenfour (2014). She and her husband Dirk Wilutzky additionally served as producers of
Citizenfour with its director Laura Poitras, and the
Three received the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Bonnefoy was born in Paris, and is the daughter of the French poet Yves Bonnefoy and Lucy Vines, an American; she has dual citizenship in France and the United States. From 1990 to 1991 she studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, but she abandoned her studies to move to Berlin. By 1995 she was working as an assistant editor, and in 1997 she was credited as the "Avid assistant" for the German film Das Leben ist eine Baustelle (directed by Wolfgang Becker). Das Leben ist eine Baustelle was one of the first films produced by the film company X Filme GmbH, which was...
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