I’m a freelance film editor based in London. I cut features, short films and docs for TV. ‘The World’s Finest Cars’, a 60-min doc I cut for Smithsonian Networks, USA, was entered by them for a Best Editing Emmy. I’ve cut short and long-short drama and studied story structure 15+ years. In my day-job I’ve cut many films for series such as ’The Money Programme’, ‘First Steps’, ‘Survivor’s Guide’, ‘The Foods That Make Billions’, ‘The Culture Show’, ‘Rogue Traders’, ‘Bang Goes The Theory’ and ‘The One Show’.
The most compelling films reveal an aspect of the human condition. I think our actions reveal what is in our heart. A rich panoply, the human condition; beautiful, awe-inspiring, challenging, scary, perplexing, tragic…
Can a finely edited, movingly scored, beautifully shot – let’s just say confidently directed – film do anything to affect the human condition? I believe it can, in a very small way. But that’s what I work for.
Outside the cutting room, I love to observe the world, often with Leica M2 in hand to catch a telling moment on film. Or my 5D for glorious colourful images. It’s a wonderful world we live in.
I have worked professionally since 1989, starting as an uncredited BBC Trainee on films including:
• Truly Madly Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella
• The Green Man, dir. Elijah Moshinsky
• Postcard from London with Clive James
• Portrait of A Marriage, about Vita Sackville-West
• Love Joy, Only Fools And Horses, The Darling Buds of May and many other top BBC dramas
I am always on the lookout for a creative challenge and interesting people to work with.