Peter Strauss Picture Editor.

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Peter Strauss

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

INTO THE VOID - Season 1
1.08 - TBA (series premiere)

Hulu

Documentary series. Vice Canada.

DARK SIDE OF THE RING - Season 6
6.01 - Mick Foley: Hell in a Cell (season premiere)
6.03 - Big Van Vader
6.06 - 'Hot Stuff' Eddie Gilbert
6.09 - The Scream Queen: Daffney
6.10 - Becoming Muhammad Hassan (season finale)

Vice TV / Crave

Documentary series. Vice Canada.

WHO KILLED WCW
1.01 - Where the Big Boys Play (series premiere)
1.02 - The Streak is Over

Vice TV / Crave

Documentary Limited Series. Vice Canada.
Canadian Screen Award nominee — Best Factual Series (2024)

THE BLIND COUPLE FROM MALI
90 min — in post-production

CBC

Feature documentary. Mediawan / Makers.

DARK SIDE OF REALITY TV Season 1
1.02 - Kid Nation
1.06 - Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
1.08 - Desperate Housewives

Vice TV / Crave

Documentary series. Vice Canada.

WHO THE [BLEEP] DID I MARRY? Season 7
7.32 - Dr. Date Rape
7.33 - The Child Bride (season finale)

Investigation Discovery

True-crime Documentary series. Efran Films.

FBI: TRUE Season 1
1.05 - Waco: Part 1
1.07 - Hunting Whitey Bulger

CBS / Paramount+

True-crime Documentary series. Efran Films.

SECRETS OF THE CHIPPENDALES MURDERS
1.01 - 1.04 (full series)

A&E

True-crime Documentary Limited series. Big Fish Productions.

CARMEN
87 min. Dir: Valerie Buhagiar

Narrative feature. Falkun Films / Aiken Hearts Productions.
Canadian Film Festival — Best Feature Film (2022)

VERMONT'S QUIET DIGITAL REVOLUTION
23 min. Dir: Peter Strauss

PBS

Documentary special. TWG.
Official Selection: FIN Atlantic Film Festival


SHORTS & DOCUMENTARY

THIS IS NOT A GHOST STORY (23 min)
Director: Valerie Buhagiar. Canada Council for the Arts — in post-production.

THE FALL OF GRACE (15 min)
Produced by Penny McDonald. National Theatre School of Canada.
Coming-of-age ensemble.

THEREBY HANGS A TALE (13 min)
Director: Aaron Yeger. Magical-realist drama.

THE BRUTAL BALLET (4 min)
Doc of Muay Thai champion Simon Marcus. Internationally recognized in Muay Thai community.

ALONE (5 min)
Director: Amanda Row (Star Trek: Brave New Worlds, Wheel of Time, Doom Patrol) 
*Official Selection Toronto After Dark Film Fest

THE BRAWL ON BAY ST. (17 min)
Doc on Bay St. trader annual boxing tournament. Broadcast on Bell TV.

VAN GORE (2 min)
Grindhouse faux-trailer. *Winner: Hobo w. a Shotgun Trailer Contest,
distributed w/ film on DVD, Official selection Fantasia Film Fest

WEIRDO (8 min)
Director: Ashlea Wessel. *Official selection Brooklyn Horror Fest, Blood in the Snow

MACKENZIE’S TRIBUTARIES (13 min)
Doc of acclaimed photographer Donald Weber. 
*Winner: Green Pitch Award, Planet in Focus Film Fest

BADBADNOTGOOD (13 min)
Doc of the internationally acclaimed band on their rise to stardom.

COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE

CUPHEAD Digital. Announcement trailer & BTS for best-selling video game. Over +10M views.

AIR CANADA Digital. “787 Dreamliner” promo campaign

SPIN MASTER TVC, Digital. Numerous new product campaigns

STEAMWHISTLE BREWING
Digital. Brand awareness campaign.

TWG Digital. Culture & inclusivity campaigns. *Winner of 6 W3 Marketing Awards

TEXTNOW TVC. “GOYN” U.S. national campaign.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY Digital. Awareness campaign 2021.

MICROSOFT
Film. Commissioned short documentary

NESTLÉ
TVC. Stouffer’s spots “The Climb” & “The Pre-Game”

ABOUT

Peter is a picture editor with over 10 years experience working with major international brands, independent documentaries and narrative features and shorts in a wide range of genres and outputs. Peter has spent several of those years expanding his skill-set as a producer and director, as seen with his documentary “Vermont’s Quiet Digital Revolution” playing at film festivals internationally and being broadcast by PBS as well as years as an in-house post-production specialist for boutique production company BizMedia, multinational PR agency Weber Shandwick and tech consultancy TWG. Peter’s broad experience in producing, editing and motion graphics allows him to meet varied demands in the ever-changing post-production landscape. Currently Peter is a freelance editor in Toronto. Peter is an alumni of Ryerson’s Image Arts Program in New Media.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Avid Media Compose
  • Final Cut Pro 7
  • Da Vinci Resolve
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Sketch
  • Experience with all major camera systems, intermediate, & delivery codecs.
  • Data best-practices including offloading procedures, backup, logging and transcoding.
  • Finishing roundtrip procedures including delivering EDLs, AAFs, OMFs and consolidation.