Video and Film Editor — NL
Polina Masalska
Commercial and social post-production · Independent film.
Selected Work
Film
Narrative editing is where I started and where I keep coming back. Currently lead editor on the feature Artificial Soul (in post-production) and Two Truths and a Lie, with earlier award-winning work on The Trinity System, Volwassen and Anyone But Me (48 Hour Film Project entries). Film school graduate, director of my own work.
Artificial Soul
Artificial Soul
Editor · Feature Film
The feature I'm currently cutting — most recent project.
Two Truths and a Lie
Two Truths and a Lie
Lead Editor · Independent Fiction Feature · 2024–Present
Cutting this independent fiction feature from assembly through picture lock.
Volwassen
Volwassen
Crew · Another One Productions
"Growing up isn't just for kids." Full credits on IMDb.
The Trinity System
The Trinity System
48 Hour Film Project · 2025
Award-winning entry, written, shot and cut against the 48-hour clock.
Anyone But Me
Anyone But Me
48 Hour Film Project · 2023
Award-winning entry from an earlier year's competition.
F=ma
F=ma
Short Film · 2019
An earlier short — part of where this all started.
48 Hour Film Project — award-winning entries across three separate years. Full credits on IMDb.
Essays
I studied film twice: once as a cinematographer, once as a critic. Polina Gif is where both degrees kept going after graduation. Video essays on film, television and the industry. Researched, written, filmed and cut by me.
A few recent essays — full archive and new uploads on YouTube.
About
Six years ago I started cutting other people's campaigns and never stopped: BBC, Puma, Audi, Meta, Philips, bol.com. Freelance under my own studio and at the advertising agency DEPT. That work taught me speed, volume, and how to keep thirty versions of one thing consistent.
Film is the other half, and the OG one. I studied cinematography before I studied anything else, and I'm now lead editor on the feature Artificial Soul (in post), with 48 Hour Film Project awards across 3 years. In between I make video essays on Polina Gif, which is what a Film Studies degree turns into when you also own a small production studio and an edit suite.
I like all of it for the same reason: somewhere in the footage there's a version that works, and finding it never gets boring.
