Stephanie Filo, ACE is a four-time Emmy Award-winning film and television editor, Peabody Award recipient, and ACE Eddie Award winner. Based in Los Angeles, California, and Sierra Leone, West Africa, she is also a passionate activist committed to global social justice. Filo serves on the board of Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone, a feminist organization supporting girls aged 11–16. She is also a co-founder of End Ebola Now, launched in 2014 to raise awareness about the Ebola crisis through artistic community activism. Beyond her editorial work in film and television, Filo dedicates much of her time to producing and editing social justice campaigns and documentaries, with a strong focus on women's and girls' rights worldwide. Her work has included collaborations 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 activism and creative work have been featured in Forbes, Entertainment Tonight, Al Jazeera, Yahoo, Telegraph UK, and more. Filo earned an Emmy nomination for the Mental State episode Ageing Out, addressing youth aging out of foster care, and won an Emmy for Separated, which tackled ICE deportations—making her and collaborator Nzinga Blake the first Sierra Leonean women to win an Emmy. In 2021, she made history with HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show, as part of the first all-Women of Colour editing team to win the Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming. She repeated history in 2022 as a member of the first all-Black editing team to win both an Emmy and an ACE Eddie for the same show. In 2023, she became the first picture editor—and the first Black editor—nominated for three different series in a single Emmy season. She received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her work on the acclaimed feature film We Grown Now.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Editor
- 18 on Motif · 23 credits in all
What are Stephanie Filo's films like?
Across their 14 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
Light 0 · Serious 2 · Dark 3
Grounded 5 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 2 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet6
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous5
- Cyclical1
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 Stephanie Filo's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 14 of their 18 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (4).
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Subscription and free streaming for Stephanie Filo's titles on Motif; 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
23 credits, 18 with a Motif page.
Horsegirls(2025)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Two Old Women (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2025)
Daredevil: Born Again(2025)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
We Grown Now(2023)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all shows
DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)
Root Letter(2022)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
Spinner (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2022)
Mid-Century(2022)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
Monster(2022)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all shows
Hopelessly in Love(2020)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
A Black Lady Sketch Show(2019)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all shows
Surviving R. Kelly(2019)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
Outrageous 911(2013)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Blood Relatives(2012)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all shows
Excavating the 2000 Year Old Man (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2012)
Cursed(2012)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all shows
Hood to Coast(2011)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all filmsNot Even Death (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2009)
Career shape
A full career of 14 titles from 2009 to 2026.
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 Motif, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
3 Primetime Emmys from 6 major nominations, 2021–2024.
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best Editing
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Picture Editing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety 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 Stephanie Filo's films land?
Their typical Motif film has a Midcredits score in the 46th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 37th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th7
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 18 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Divisive4
- Cult Classic2
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the pacing 48/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 63, detractors 8. The element that speaks to their work as an editor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on Motif; 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 Motif 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 Stephanie Filo work with?
People who share at least 2 of Stephanie Filo's Motif titles, grouped by what they did on them; Daysha Broadway shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Sonja O'HaraShared titles: Mid-Century (2022), Root Letter (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Sonja O'Hara
Editors
- Daysha BroadwayShared titles: I'm with the Band: Nasty Cherry (2019), Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club (2019), Surviving R. Kelly (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Daysha Broadway
- Kelley TourangeauShared titles: I'm with the Band: Nasty Cherry (2019), Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club (2019), Surviving R. Kelly (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Kelley Tourangeau
- Adam H. MillerShared titles: Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine (2021), Hopelessly in Love (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Adam H. Miller
- Bradinn FrenchShared titles: Hopelessly in Love (2020), Surviving R. Kelly (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Bradinn French
Producers
- Brie Miranda BryantShared titles: Hopelessly in Love (2020), Surviving R. Kelly (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Brie Miranda Bryant
- Farnaz FarjamShared titles: Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project (2020), Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Farnaz Farjam
- Gil GoldscheinShared titles: Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project (2020), Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Gil Goldschein
- Julie PizziShared titles: Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project (2020), Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Julie Pizzi
Mixed roles
- Jacob LaneShared titles: Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project (2020), Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Jacob Lane