Peter Kinoy

Editor

 Peter Kinoy is no stranger to the Sundance Film festival. He arrives in 2011 with Granito, his sixth feature documentary to grace Park City. Along with long-time collaborator Pamela Yates, Kinoy specializes in long form documentaries on justice and human rights. His films have spanned the globe geographically, covering a wide spectrum of human experience. Kinoy produced and edited When the Mountains Tremble about a revolutionary moment in Guatemala that won a Special Jury Prize at the first Sundance Film Festival in 1984, and returned with Takeover, an inside look at homeless activists in 1990.  He was back at Sundance in 1995 with Teen Dreams, a searing look at young lives on the edge co-produced with Ilan Ziv, that pioneered self-documentation with small format cameras.  With Yates, Kinoy made Poverty Outlaw (Official Sundance Selection 1997) that brought the struggles of poor women organizing to Park City screens.  His most recent Sundance contribution (2009) was The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court , an international thriller about the possibilities and pitfalls facing humanity’s quest for international justice. 

Peter has a passion for teaching and has mentored emerging filmmakers at City College of New York, Columbia University, Casa Comal in Guatemala, and at the International School of Film and Television in Cuba.  He was a founder of The Media College of the University of the Poor here in the US.