Laura Helbing, born in Amsterdam and currently based in Berlin, is a film editor who graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2022. There, she learned how to edit both fiction and documentary films, as well as commercials.

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In her second year at the Film Academy, she went to refugee camp Moria (Lesvos, Greece) to volunteer as a teaching artist with Refocus MediaLabs, doing workshops about filmmaking with the residents of the camp who were participating as students in the Refocus MediaLabs film program.

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In 2021, she moved to Berlin to do an internship with editor Marion Tuor on the CPH:DOX opening film Into The Ice, directed by Lars Henrik Ostenfeld.

After moving back to Amsterdam to finish her studies, she edited two short films for her graduation: the documentary LOUDER! So I Can Hear You directed by Laura Bokhoven, and the fiction film To Break A Butterfly, directed by Kate Hummel.

 

For Laura, editing is the moment in the process where the film can really take shape and comes together as a whole. She is interested in working on socially engaged films that can bring new perspectives to the audience, and strives to find a filmic experience that goes beyond the daily reality.