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Pedro Kos

Pedro Kos

Editor, director, producer and writer

Primetime Emmy winner · Oscar nominee · 1 other major award body

Academy Award nominee Pedro Kos most recently co-directed The White House Effect with Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, which premiered at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival. His fiction film debut In Our Blood premiered at the 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival and distributed by Utopia Distribution. Pedro co-directed the Netflix Original Documentary Short Lead Me Home (2021) with Jon Shenk, which was nominated for an Academy Award. He also directed, wrote, and edited the documentary feature film Rebel Hearts, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was released worldwide by Discovery+. Prior to that he wrote and produced Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer's Netflix Original Documentary The Great Hack which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA award. His feature directorial debut Bending the Arc (co-directed with Kief Davidson) premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, he edited Jehane Noujaim's Academy Award nominee The Square which earned Pedro an Emmy Award for Best Editing for a Non-Fiction program, Lucy Walker's Academy Award nominee Waste Land and The Crash Reel (2013 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award winner), Jon Shenk's The Island President (2011 TIFF Documentary People's Choice Award winner) among others. Pedro is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and received his B.A. in Theater Directing from Yale University.

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Biography from IMDb.

Works as
Editor, director, producer and writer
Titles
15 on MovieCove · 17 credits in all
TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Up 9% in 30 days

What are Pedro Kos' films like?

Across their 13 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Power.

What they feel like to watch

their average across 12 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category

Grounded 10 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0

Gentle 1 · Charged 6 · Intense 5

A split, not a type: Steady 6 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 2

Straight-faced 11 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0

Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 7 · Relentless 0

Casual 4 · Engaged 7 · Full focus 1

Resolved 7 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 1

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Hopeful
8
Tense
7
Contemplative
6
Melancholic
4
Warm
3
Other
10

How their films end

  • Happy2
  • Bittersweet7
  • Ambiguous4

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Pedro Kos' films?

As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 15 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (3).

Subscription and free streaming for Pedro Kos' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

17 credits, 15 with a MovieCove page.

  • In Our Blood(2024)

    Director

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
  • The White House Effect(2024)

    Director · Editor

    Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
  • Lift(2022)

    Writer

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
  • Lead Me Home(2021)

    Director · Editor

    Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
  • Rebel Hearts(2021)

    Director · Editor · Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
  • Five Years North (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

    Consulting Editor

  • The Vow(2020)

    Show Writer

    Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows
  • The Great Hack(2019)

    Producer · Writer

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
  • Bending the Arc(2017)

    Director · Editor

    Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
  • Speed Sisters(2015)

    Consulting Editor

    Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
  • Dare to Be Wild(2015)

    Editor

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
  • The Crash Reel(2013)

    Editor · Writer

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
  • The Square(2013)

    Co-Producer · Editor

    Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
  • Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
  • March of The Living (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

    Assistant Art Director

  • Waste Land(2010)

    Editor

    Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
  • Little Black Book(2004)

    Post Production Coordinator

    Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films

Career shape

A full career of 14 titles from 2004 to 2025.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Directing5 of 14: 1 only directing, 4 with another role · typical Midcredits score69thWriting2 of 14: 0 only writing, 2 with another roleProducing2 of 14: 0 only producing, 2 with another roleEditing8 of 14: 2 only editing, 6 with another role · typical Midcredits score88thOther crew4 of 14: 4 only other crew, 0 with another role

14 titles, 7 with more than one role — editing and directing overlap on 4 of them.

By decade

2000s1 · crew2010s8 · crew2020s5 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Awards

a Primetime Emmy from 4 major nominations, 2014–2022.

WinNomination
  1. 2022
    • Oscar, nominated · Best Documentary Short Subject
  2. 2021
    • Sundance award, nominated · Documentary
  3. 2020
    • Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
  4. 2014
    • Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming

Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.

How do Pedro Kos' films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 78th percentile, the median of all 14; across their 12 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 78th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

78thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 12

Approval · how many liked their films

81stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 12

Reach · how many have seen their films

66thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 12

Midcredits score across 15 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up9
  • 50th to 74th3
  • 25th to 49th2
  • Below 25th1

Shape of the crowd

5 of their 15 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Loved3
  • Divisive1
  • Crowd Pleaser4
  • Broadly Agreed2
  • Mixed5

Reviewers score the pacing 51/100 in their films, across 8 reviewed titles; fans 58, detractors 34. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Pedro Kos work with?

People who share at least 2 of Pedro Kos' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Geralyn White Dreyfous shares the most, 7.

Directors

Writers

Composers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles