• ‘Open Water’ – a one man hit film

    What happens when the dive boat sails away and no-one notices that you’re not on board? Chris Kentis does an amazing job answering the question; amazing because not only did he write the script but he edited it too. In fact, apart from second camera, which was operated by producer and real-life partner Laura Lau, …

  • ‘Source Code’, edited by Paul Hirsch

    if you love film and love editing it’s worth watching just to admire Paul Hirsch’s work. If the last minutes of a persons life were recorded in the brain as if on some kind of solid-state device, could they be read like data and written into someone else’s brain; a host brain, as it were? …

  • ‘Northern Crock’ How a bank was broken

    When the banking system went into meltdown in 2007, we saw scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression of 1927. People queued round the block to take their money out of Northern Rock. Why this and not the other banks? Who or what caused the panic, and how could you avoid losing your money? This film, …

  • ‘The Inspired Kitty Collins’

    Executive Produced by Asif Kapadia, this was an exercise in quick film making. The script took the director one week to write, the shoot lasted 17 hours and the edit was complete within a week. When this was made I was at a stage in my development where I did a lot of shooting and …