About

Rebecca Adorno-Dávila is an award winning video editor born and raised in Puerto Rico. She was an editor on the nine part HBO documentary series The Vow Part I and worked on three seasons of the Emmy-award winning series VICE on HBO. Among others, she edited feature length documentaries “We Can Be Heroes” (SXSW Film Festival 2024), “Homeroom” (Sundance Film Festival 2021) and “Moments Like This Never Last”, which was an official selection at DocNYC and CPH:DOX 2020. 

Adorno received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Puerto Rico (2008) and an MFA in computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2010). She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing in 2016 and was a recipient of Sundance Film Festival’s 2021 Jonathan Oppenheim Documentary Editing Award for her work on documentary film Homeroom. She was also a 2022 nominee for Cinema Eye Honors’ Outstanding Achievement in Editing award and for IDA’s Best Editing Award. She currently works between New York, Puerto Rico or anywhere where there is a good story that needs to be told.

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