Rogue Films sign Lisa Gunning

Starting her career at Whitehouse Post in Soho, London Lisa Gunning edited a multitude of commercials for top agencies such as Wieden & Kennedy, 72 and Sunny and Mother, with work for clients including Nike, Levi’s, Adidas, VW, Guinness, Samsung and Land Rover. Her work with directors such as Stacy Wall, Daniel Kleinman and Jonathan Glazer led to numerous awards, including D&AD, AICP, and a Gold Lion at Cannes.

She met Anthony Minghella while editing a spot for Comic Relief, Drop the debt written by Richard Curtis. She then cut Play for him as part of the Samuel Beckett season for Film 4 which marked the beginning of a long running collaboration. After working on some musical sequences in The Talented Mr Ripley, her first feature was Minghella’s Breaking & Entering followed by his flagship pilot for The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. She went on to edit several other movies including Seven Psychopaths for Martin McDonagh and Salmon fishing in the Yemen for Lasse Hallstrom. Gunning also collaborated extensively with Sam Taylor-Johnson, first on her Palm D’or winning short Love you more then Nowhere boy and Fifty Shades of Grey. 

As a Film Editor she has helmed multiple BFI and BAFTA masterclasses and worked consistently on panels and workshops to encourage women and other minorities to find their voice in the film business.