Pilar Rico is a freelance editor based between New York City and Spain. She most recently edited the feature length-documentary ROWDY GIRL (2023) by Jason Goldman, which premiered at Hot Docs Festival, and THE GREAT GREEN WALL (2019) by Emmy-award-winning writer/director Jared P. Scott and produced by Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles. The film, which premiered at Venice, follows musician/activist Inna Modja on an epic journey to the frontline of the climate crisis along Africa’s Great Green Wall.
Pilar’s past films include THE FREEDOM TO MARRY (2016) by Eddie Rosenstein, winner of Best Editing and Best Documentary Film at Savannah Film Festival, and the films GRAZERS: A COOPERATIVE STORY (2012) and PATRIMONIO (2018) by award-winning directors Lisa F. Jackson and Sarah Teale’s, which premiered at Berlinale and Full Frame. She has also edited short documentaries for companies such as Retro Report, including a PBS segment on the #MeToo movement and The New York Times film about the killing of Chilean musician Víctor Jara.
Pilar has edited commercial/branded content for companies including VICE Media, Transient Pictures, DirecTV, Hero Edit, Flatbush Pictures, Public Record, Ntropic, Camp4Collective or Stack, and agencies such as J. Walter Thompson, Wunderman or Mother NY.
Outside the edit room, Pilar has worked as director, producer and cameraperson in several films in Spain and America such as WELCOME TO THE WORLD, GREEN CARD and PLAYING GOODBYE. She was a recipient of the 2018 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship, Diversity in the Edit Room.
pilar.rico.soriano@gmail.com