
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.
- Editor, director, producer and writer
- 15 on MovieCove · 17 credits in all
What are Pedro Kos' films like?
Across their 13 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Power.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 12
Light 2 · Serious 5 · Dark 5
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
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 6 · Heavy 5
Resolved 7 · Open-ended 4 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- 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).
- Curiosity Stream
- discovery+
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)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
The White House Effect(2024)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Lift(2022)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Lead Me Home(2021)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Rebel Hearts(2021)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Five Years North (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

The Vow(2020)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all shows
The Great Hack(2019)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Bending the Arc(2017)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Speed Sisters(2015)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Dare to Be Wild(2015)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
The Crash Reel(2013)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
The Square(2013)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all films
The Island President(2011)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films
March of The Living (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

Waste Land(2010)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Little Black Book(2004)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 14 titles from 2004 to 2025.

Biggest box office
Waste Land (2010)

Highest rated
The Crash Reel (2013)

Most popular right now
The Vow (2020)
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.
- Oscar, nominated · Best Documentary Short Subject
- Sundance award, nominated · Documentary
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
- 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.
- 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
- Jon ShenkShared titles: The White House Effect (2024), Lead Me Home (2021), The Island President (2011)See all 3 shared titles with Jon Shenk

- Jehane NoujaimShared titles: The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019), The Square (2013)See all 3 shared titles with Jehane Noujaim

- Karim AmerShared titles: The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019), The Square (2013)See all 3 shared titles with Karim Amer

- Lucy WalkerShared titles: The Crash Reel (2013), Waste Land (2010)See all 2 shared titles with Lucy Walker

Writers
- Erin BarnettShared titles: Rebel Hearts (2021), The Great Hack (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Erin Barnett
Composers and editors
- Gil TalmiShared titles: In Our Blood (2024), Lead Me Home (2021), The Great Hack (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Gil Talmi

- Ariel MarxShared titles: The White House Effect (2024), Rebel Hearts (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Ariel Marx

- Daniel ClaridgeShared titles: The White House Effect (2024), The Great Hack (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Daniel Claridge
- H. Scott SalinasShared titles: Bending the Arc (2017), The Square (2013)See all 2 shared titles with H. Scott Salinas

Producers
- Geralyn White DreyfousShared titles: The White House Effect (2024), Rebel Hearts (2021), The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019), Bending the Arc (2017), The Crash Reel (2013), The Square (2013)See all 7 shared titles with Geralyn White Dreyfous

- Bonni CohenShared titles: The White House Effect (2024), Lift (2022), Lead Me Home (2021), The Island President (2011)See all 4 shared titles with Bonni Cohen

- Nina Sing FialkowShared titles: Rebel Hearts (2021), The Vow (2020), The Great Hack (2019), Bending the Arc (2017)See all 4 shared titles with Nina Sing Fialkow

- Jenny RaskinShared titles: The White House Effect (2024), Bending the Arc (2017), The Crash Reel (2013)See all 3 shared titles with Jenny Raskin

Mixed roles
- Christopher de la TorreShared titles: The Great Hack (2019), The Square (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Christopher de la Torre



