Roberto Sommella

I am an Adobe-certified Premiere Pro Video Editor with a broad range of experience in my portfolio and a specialisation for digital and social media.

Creative at heart. Technical by habit. Curious by nature

I’m a video editor. Mainly.

But I have also been a filmmaker, a scriptwriter, a copywriter, a producer...

(and a few other roles where the font keeps getting smaller and smaller...)

Teamwork is the key

Although I have been freelancing a good part of my life, most of the projects I have worked on, I have had the pleasure of being in a team. An essential experience that helped me through the sharing of knowledge, creative problem-solving, and the art of making things work together.

Post-production ninja

I can confidently say my home is Adobe Creative Cloud, as long as I am fuelled by a decent amount of caffeine. I have travelled to many other places, though: DaVinci, FCPX, Frame.io, Iconik, LucidLink, CapCut, LumaVision are just some of the tools I have used in my long career.

Code learner in progress

Currently taming Python and JavaScript - one bug at a time. With the hope that I can integrate more and more all my life experiences and use programming and AI as the glue that brings it all together. Working on it 💪🏻

My academic background shaped how I think

But it’s the art, music, and films I’ve devoured that opened my mind to the wild, beautiful mess of human creativity. And, of course, the people I have met along the way.

Born in Naples, bred in Milan, buttered in London (with a sprinkle of New York)

The buzzing London is my home today. Yet I am increasingly attracted by the idea of reconnecting with Europe and the world. The ideal would be to build a bridge in between - no wait, the ideal would be to work remotely on an island where it's always warm and the food is good, but hey, we can't have it all.

Always up for a challenge

Especially the kind that makes me Google something weird at 1 AM.

Or talk to GPT for half an hour.

Graduated in Comparative Studies with an address in History of Cinema and a dissertation on Disney and Miyazaki.