Stephanie Filo
Stephanie Filo, ACE, is a four-time Emmy winner, as well as a Peabody and ACE Eddie Award-winning film/television editor and activist based in Los Angeles, CA, and Sierra Leone, West Africa. She serves on the board for Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone, a social impact and feminist-based organisation for Sierra Leonean girls aged 11-16. She is one of the co-founders of End Ebola Now, an organisation created in 2014 to spread accurate information and awareness about the Ebola Virus and its impact through artistic community activism. Aside from editing television and film, Stephanie spends much of her spare time producing and editing social action campaigns and documentaries, primarily focused on the rights of women and girls worldwide. Some of her notable campaigns include her work with the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation, and the Obama White House Task Force's It's On Us campaign to combat campus sexual assault. Her charitable work has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, Telegraph UK, Yahoo, Al Jazeera, XWhy Magazine, and various others. Her work on the news documentary series "Mental State" earned her an Emmy nomination for the episode "Ageing Out," about youth ageing out of the American foster care system. She earned an Emmy win for her editing on the Mental State episode "Separated," which covered ICE deportations, making herself and Nzinga Blake the first Sierra Leonean women to ever win an Emmy award. In 2021, she won a Primetime Emmy award for her work on HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show," making her team the first all-Women of Colour editing team to take home the award for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. In 2022, she made history again as a member of the first all-Black editing team to be nominated for and win both an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for "A Black Lady Sketch Show." In 2023, she made history again as the first picture editor and first Black editor to ever be Emmy-nominated for 3 different series at the same time. Most recently, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her work on the film "We Grown Now." Information above via their homepage.