Hi, I’m Steph
I’m a film editor and visual creative.
I work where storytelling, emotion and design meet, across film, music videos, brands and visual experimentation.
I believe stories are felt long before they're understood.
An editor's instinct.
A designer’s eye.
Editing has taught me to listen for rhythm, emotion and narrative. Design has taught me to see structure, composition and visual language.
Together, they shape the way I think.
For me, editing is about emotion. It’s about finding the feeling inside the footage and shaping it through rhythm—knowing when to hold a moment, when to let it breathe, and when to move on.
I’m fascinated by the space between images: the pause, the tension, the glance, the silence. The things that aren't always written into a script, but somehow say everything.
Sometimes, the story isn't in the image itself. Sometimes, it lives between images. And sometimes, it lives in the space around them—in what we choose to leave out, or simply leave open.
with Zayn Alexander during the premiere of the short film ‘Manara’ during the Venice Film Festival, Giornate degli Autori, 2019
Beyond the edit
Over the years, my curiosity has taken me beyond editing and into graphic design, motion, digital art and new creative technologies.
I love working with images in different ways—mixing, layering, transforming and reimagining them to discover new relationships and unexpected possibilities.
More recently, I've been exploring AI as another creative medium: not as a replacement for craft, but as a new way to experiment, imagine and develop visual worlds.
For me, these disciplines aren't separate. They all come from the same place: a fascination with images, storytelling and the endless ways they can be brought together. Each one constantly feeds into the others.
For the past 15 years, I’ve collaborated with directors, production companies and international brands across independent cinema, documentaries, music videos and visual storytelling for global high-end clients.
Alongside my film work, I’ve developed a long-standing collaboration with a global luxury house, working directly with international teams to adapt and execute creative across EMEIAT markets. The work spans film, motion, design, digital assets and physical brand collateral — often under tight deadlines and strict confidentiality.
My work has taken me from intimate, character-driven films to large-scale luxury visual campaigns, always with the same focus on finding the rhythm, emotion and visual language that make a story resonate.
I’ve been fortunate to have my work recognized internationally. While select brand collaborations and commissioned projects I contribute to are confidential and therefore not shown publicly, what matters to me is less the format or scale of a project, and more the opportunity to collaborate, experiment and create stories that make us feel something we can’t quite explain.
That’s the work I aspire to make.
The work
I don’t fit neatly into one box
I’ve never really been interested in fitting neatly into one box.
I’m an editor, a designer, a motion artist and a post-production problem solver — depending on what the work needs.
And that’s probably the simplest way to describe what I do: I take creative ideas, figure out what they need, and make them work.
Selected Recognition
-5 Lions at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and the White Pencil at the D&AD Impact Awards for the integrated campaign “Abaad522” in 2017
-7 jury awards for “Manara” short film, screened during the 76th Venice Film Festival in the Giornate degli Autori section (Venice Days) – Silver Hypatia Award for Best Narrative Short Film at the 6th Alexandria Short Film Festival
-Youth jury special mention at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival for the short film “Arabian Night” 2020
-Semi-finalist at the New York International Film Awards for the documentary “I Bleed”
-Best Editor Award for the music video “Talisman” at the European Cinematography Awards 2020
-Best Editor quarter finalist at the International Music Video Underground 2020
-1 Lion at the Cannes Festival for the campaign “Close The Gap” in 2021.