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Emmy-winning editor Elena Maganini gone at 70 🕊️ You may not have seen Elena Maganini on screen, but you've probably watched stories shaped by her hands. Emmy-winning film and television editor Elena Maganini, known for Dexter and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, has passed away at 70. Behind every great scene is someone deciding exactly what the audience sees, when they see it, and how long that moment stays with them. Maganini spent decades mastering that invisible art. Some of the works that carried her touch: • Dexter • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Kill3r • Wild Things • Four Rooms • Mad Dog and Glory • Next Friday • If These Walls Could Talk • The Dead Zone • Dollhouse • Clarice • Manifest • 90210 Her work on the Dexter pilot earned her a Primetime Emmy Award, recognition for helping shape a series that would become one of television's defining crime dramas. Actors give us the performances. Directors capture them. Editors decide how we experience them. Rest in peace, Elena Maganini 🕊️