Rosella Tursi is a New York City-based documentary filmmaker and in-demand editor who grew up speaking three languages in the multicultural city of Montreal, Canada. She recently made her directing debut with The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank Robbers, which won Best Documentary at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Over the past decade in NYC, she has edited numerous high-profile documentary films and series, including The Brittney Griner Story for ESPN’s 30 for 30 and God Save Texas for HBO, both of which had Sundance premieres.

Her credits also include the first episode of the critically-acclaimed HBO documentary series Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York, and she has another HBO documentary series slated to premiere in 2026.

She cut three episodes of the FX series Pride, co-produced by Christine Vachon’s Killer Films and Vice Studios, and she was the lead editor on the award-winning feature documentary Willie. Other credits include episodes of Oscar winner Alex Gibney's Netflix series Dirty Money, the Showtime series Dark Net and The Last Defense, a collaboration between ABC and Viola Davis’ Juvee Productions.

Rosella began her career in Canada where she was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for her editing work on the drama doc JFK: The Smoking Gun. She cut her teeth in the industry at MusiquePlus (Canada’s French equivalent of MTV) as an editor and director. She created and directed the street fashion/youth culture series ID Mode while she was at the network.

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