Georgia Wyss
Film Editer
- Expertise : Film Editor
- Languages : english
- Website : https://georgiawyss.com/
Georgia Wyss is known as co-founder of the Barcelona based production company TengoTwo in 2003. She works as an editor and has been producing documentaries and image films. Georgia is also co-produced, co-wrote, and edited the documentary No Plorar Mai (Never to Cry). In 2017, she finished producing and directing her feature-length documentary about the yoga music phenomenon, Mantra – Sounds into Silence that was entered in more than six festivals, winning awards in three of them: Illuminate Film Festival in Sedona, winner ‘director’s choice award,’ Maui Film Festival, winner ‘documentary feature world cinema’ award and the Rishikesh Film Festival ‘best of fest” award. During 2018 and 2019, her film was released theatrically in over 14 countries and also continues being released today.
Georgia’s most recent works as an editor include A Crude Awakening, a feature documentary shown at over 70 film festivals, and winner of 5 awards for best documentary; the trailer and additional editing on Isabel Coixet’s feature The Secret Life of Words; and the feature documentary, The Lightbulb Conspiracy, directed by Cosima Dannoritzer and produced by Joan Úbeda, winner of Best Documentary at the Spanish Television Academy Awards 2011. In 2017 Georgia edited the German episode of the global football documentary series Phemons produced by Fox Sports, and the feature-length documentary, Time Thieves, directed by Cosima Dannoritzer and produced by Polar Star Films, which won ‘Best Editing’ at the United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford in 2019.
Her background in film stretches back to 1991. Since then, she started editing commercials, documentaries, and features in Hamburg, Zurich, New York, and Barcelona. During her six years of editing in New York, she focused on music documentaries for VH1 and MTV, including the series Where Are They Now; Aretha Franklin’s The Legends; and EPKs for Tina Turner, Eros Ramazotti, and Paul McCartney’s ‘Back in the World’ tour. Wyss also edited the video background for the musical RENT. For TV channels like the ABC Network and PBS, she edited documentaries such as Living with Cancer, produced by Helene Lerner, the Ken Star special report hosted by Diane Sawyer, a special on Disney’s 100th anniversary, and a series for the children’s channel Nickelodeon.
Work by Georgia Wyss
- Mantra – Sounds into Silence
- Time Thieves
- Phenoms Germany
- The Light Bulb Conspiracy
- A Crude Awakening, The Oil Crash
- Never to Cry
- Coco-Mat: Sleep on Nature
- Vidas Sonoras
- The Secret Life of Words
- Womens’ Secret Anmandine
