Editing

Peter Kinoy

Known for

Editing

Credits

5 titles

Peter Kinoy is an American documentary filmmaker and film editor, best known for his contributions to social and political documentaries. He co-founded Skylight, a human rights media organization, with his partner, Gilda Sheppard. Kinoy’s work spans a wide range of impactful subjects, and he has received numerous accolades, including multiple Emmy nominations and a win for When the Mountains Tremble (1984). His films have focused on issues such as human rights, justice, and social movements, leaving a lasting imprint on the documentary field.

Known for

When the Mountains Tremble poster
9.0

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.

When the Mountains Tremble

1983

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator poster
4.5

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

2011

Takeover poster
7.0

Filmed across eight U.S. cities on May 1, 1990, the documentary follows homeless activists who simultaneously occupy vacant federally owned houses to protest the lack of affordable housing. Organized with the National Union of the Homeless, the coordinated action challenges government housing policies while documenting the movement from the participants’ perspective.

Takeover

1991

State of Fear poster
8.5

STATE OF FEAR takes place in Peru, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a world engaged in a "global war on terror." It dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it embarks on a "war" against terror, a "war" potentially without end, all too easily exploited by unscrupulous leaders seeking personal political gain.

State of Fear

2006

Mother Tongue poster
NR

"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil—5.5% of whom were killed during the armed conflict in the 1980s. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, an emerging Ixil leader and the translation project’s coordinator, "Mother Tongue" illuminates the Ixil community’s ongoing work to preserve collective memory.

Mother Tongue

2015

Behind the camera

When the Mountains Tremble poster
9.0

A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.

When the Mountains Tremble

1983

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator poster
4.5

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

2011

Takeover poster
7.0

Filmed across eight U.S. cities on May 1, 1990, the documentary follows homeless activists who simultaneously occupy vacant federally owned houses to protest the lack of affordable housing. Organized with the National Union of the Homeless, the coordinated action challenges government housing policies while documenting the movement from the participants’ perspective.

Takeover

1991

State of Fear poster
8.5

STATE OF FEAR takes place in Peru, yet serves as a cautionary tale for a world engaged in a "global war on terror." It dramatizes the human and societal costs a democracy faces when it embarks on a "war" against terror, a "war" potentially without end, all too easily exploited by unscrupulous leaders seeking personal political gain.

State of Fear

2006

Mother Tongue poster
NR

"Mother Tongue" chronicles the first time a documentary film about Guatemalan genocide in Guatemala was translated and dubbed into Maya-Ixil—5.5% of whom were killed during the armed conflict in the 1980s. Told from the perspective of Matilde Terraza, an emerging Ixil leader and the translation project’s coordinator, "Mother Tongue" illuminates the Ixil community’s ongoing work to preserve collective memory.

Mother Tongue

2015