Pietro Scalia

Pietro Scalia (born March 17, 1960) is an Italian-American film editor. He was born in Catania (Sicily), but later he moved to Switzerland with his parents and attended Swiss-German schools until high school. After graduation he decided to move to the United States to pursue his college education. He spent two years at the University at Albany, The State University of New York, after which he was accepted as an undergraduate at UCLA. The Swiss government's scholarship helped him though five years of UCLA and in 1985 he earned his Master of Fine Arts from the UCLA Film School. After his MFA, a couple of short films, a screenplay, two video documentaries, and a 16 mm thesis film, he returned to Europe to pursue his desire to become a film...