LATEST NEWS
28th October 2024
I’ve just heard that Turtle Walker and its impact campaign have been nominatewc for this years Anthem Community Voice Award. This is a celebration of purpose-driven work that sparks change in global communities. With over 8000 submissions, being short listed is a huge honour.
More details here:
22nd October 2024
Billy & Molly and Planet Earth 3 have both been nominated for 2 Televisual Bulldog awards. Both are in the running for Specialist Factual and Cinematography. Life on Our Planet is also up for best music and CGI.
More details here:
https://www.televisual.com/news/voting-opens-for-2024-televisual-bulldog-awards/
17th October 2024
So Wildscreen just happened… And what a night! Not only was I lucky enough to scoop a Best Editing gong for Chimp Empire, but Billy & Molly bagged 3 awards, including the Golden Panda. There was a lot of love and support in the room for our film, let’s hope this is the start of something.
More details here:
15th October 2024
Interesting article in Variety featuring the latest news about Turtle Walker. The distribution push starts now, I really hope people have a chance watch this beautiful, hopeful film.
More details here:
14th October 2024
Billy & Molly has just garnered 6 nominations in the Critics Choice Documentary Awards… ‘the Crttics Choice Documentary Awards are often a harbinger of the Oscars and certainly shine a light on many potential nominees’. I pretty much have everything crossed…
More details here:
https://www.criticschoice.com/critics-choice-documentary-awards/
26th September 2024
Meanwhile… Turn up the Bass has been going great guns at festivals around the world. It’s been in the official selection at film festivals as far flung as Texas, Hungary and Wigan. It’s been celebrated for its direction, it’s impeccable sound work and its power as a documentary. Let’s hope the love for it continues! Watch it if you haven’t already.
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23rd September 2024
The nominations for this years Grierson Awards have been announced and I’m delighted to say that Living with Leopards has been nominated. A huge congratulations to Alex and Bobby, who are responsible for the final film. Well done!
More details here:
https://griersontrust.org/about-us/news/grierson-awards-2024-nominees/
5th September 2024
Jackson Wild 2024 awards have just been dished out and I’m thrilled to share some VERY exciting news. Not only did Billy & Molly scoop the People & Nature film award and Turtle Walker nab the Conservation film award, but Turtle Walker won the Grand Teton award - one of the most prestigious awards in Wildlife Filmmaking. This award is given to the best film of the year.
”A beautifully realized portrait of one man’s decades-long efforts to save his nation’s threatened and endangered sea turtles and an inspiring look at how his legacy lives on in the legions of devoted conservationists continuing his work today.” - The Final Jury
More details here:
26th August 2024
Billy and Molly’s UK-wide release has seemingly been put on hold until next year, but in the meanwhile I’ve been relishing the love it’s been getting on Letterboxd. And it’s been rising up the ranks of the best reviewed films of 2024, and now sits in the top 30.
More details here:
https://letterboxd.com/film/billy-molly-an-otter-love-story/
8th August 2024
The Windscreen Panda nominees have been announced. Billy and Molly, Chimp Empire, Living with Leopards and Planet Earth 3 share 8 nominations between them. My episode of Chimp Empire has also been nominated in the editing category.
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22nd July 2024
Living with Leopards has found its way on to this years Grierson Awards Short List for Best Natural History Documentary. Well done to Brad, Alex and Bobby! Richly deserved and fingers crossed!
More details here:
https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/past-awards/2024/#shorlist
18th July 2024
The Jackson Wild Media award nominations are live. Between Billy & Molly, Turtle Walker, Living with Leopards and Planet Earth 3, there’s 10 awards up for grabs, including Best Series for Planet Earth 3, Best Feature for Billy & Molly and Living with Leopards and Best Editing for Planet Earth 3 Freshwater.
More details here:
20th May 2024
Billy and Molly has won the Audience Award for Best International Feature at NorthwestFest International Documentary Festival, Canada’s longest running non-fiction film festival. I’m so happy this special film is resonating with audience around the world.
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10th May 2024
Living with Leopards is being released on Netflix today. It’s a film of 2 editors and much of the craft of the final film is courtesy of Bobby Sheikh, who more than helped bring this one over the line. I fell in love with the leopards of this story and I’m sure you will too!
More details here:
22nd April 2024
Life on our Planet scooped a couple of big awards tag the RTS West awards, including the award for Best Editing. Like last year, I get the privilege of sharing the award with the other editors on the series. It was a bit of surprise this one, but an honour against such strong competition. Much fun was had!
More details here:
https://rts.org.uk/article/rts-west-england-awards-2024-winners-announced
15th April 2024
The otter man cometh!
Billy and Molly is a matter of weeks/months away (depending on which side of the pond you reside). It’s a beautiful film that I am incredibly proud of. Everybody who worked on it really excelled and gave their all. And this love an dedication is there for all to see. I’ll stop blathering on. Check out the trailer!
More details here:
26th March 2024
Chimp Empire beat some stiff competition to scoop the award in the Science and Natural World Category at the RTS awards. It was a spectacular night, rubbing shoulders with the great and the good. In a couple of months time: the BAFTAs! The judges said our series was “a best-in-class production which delivered a totally immersive experience for viewers”.
More details here:
20th March 2024
The nominations for the BAFTAs have been announced and I’m beyond thrilled that Chimp Empire has made the cut! We’re up against some remarkable films and series, so I will have everything crossed! It’s 2 years in a row for me, and I’m hoping that this year we bring home the award!
More details here:
29th February 2024
The nominations for the RTS West awards have been announced and 3 productions I worked on have been nominated for a total of 16 awards between them. Including a nod for the editing team on Life on our Planet. Also Planet Earth 3, Chimp Empire and Life on Our Planet are up for best natural history programme and best director. Roll on the party!
More details here:
https://rts.org.uk/article/rts-west-england-awards-nominations-2024-nominations-announced
21st February 2024
More exciting Billy and Molly news: it will be getting its European premier in CPH: dox - one of the foremost documentary festivals in the world. A true labour of love for all involved, here’s hoping it finds some love in Scandinavia.
More details here:
7th February 2024
Incoming otter love! Billy and Molly is coming to a screen near you (provided you live in Texas!). I’m incredibly excited that this film is venturing into the world. it will receive its world premier at South by South West.
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1st February 2024
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of ‘Turn Up The Bass’, a Netflix short celebrating the life of Troi Lee, a deaf rave pioneer and DJ. The film was funded by Netflix UK’s Documentary Talent Fund. A team of talented filmmakers made it can you can watch it on my trailers page.
More details here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/netflix-documentary-fund-deaf-dj-black-people-swimming-fear-1235811928/
25th October 2023
Life on our Planet is launching globally on Netflix today. It has been a project 5 years (at least!) in the making. It’s packed full of spectacle, jaw dropping facts and the profound realisation that Planet Earth survives whatever the universe throws at it - even if its residents don’t always make the cut. A dream collaboration between ILM, Spielberg and Silverback.
Check it out: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23181388/
22nd October 2023
Planet Earth 3 is launching today. I am enormously proud of my contribution (editing the Freshwater episode), and have been insanely impressed with the level of filmmaking across the entire series. It’s a project I am incredibly chuffed to be part of. Watch it!
More details here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gjwxhv
28th September 2023
Chimp Empire has scooped the award for best limited series at Jackson Wild Media awards, 2023. Congratulations to the whole team, a massive achievement.
More info here: https://www.jacksonwild.org/2023-media-awards.html
4th August 2023
Chimp Empire has received 3 nominations at the Jackson Wild Media awards, including Best Limited Series and thrillingly Paradise has been nominated for Best Editing. Winners are announced later in the year.
More info here: https://www.jacksonwild.org/2023-media-awards.html
20th July 2023
Chimp Empire: Paradise has been nominated for the Best Natural History Documentary I the granddaddy of Documentary award - the Griersons. I am over the moon with this nomination and will start crossing various digits now.
More info here: https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/past-awards/2023#shortlist
24th April 2023
The Green Planet won 4 awards at the RTS West Awards: Natural History, Sound, Cinematography and Editing! It’s an honour to share this award with my fellow button monkeys, whose excellent talents helped bring the series to life! It was a great night!
More info here:https://rts.org.uk/article/rts-west-england-awards-winners-announced-2
29th March 2023
The Green Planet won the RTS Programme Award for best Science and Natural World Series - amazing news! Next: the BAFTAs.
The judges said, “It was mind-blowingly good – hugely ambitious editorially and technologically ground breaking.”
More info here: https://rts.org.uk/award/rts-programme-awards-2023
22nd March 2023
Chimp Empire is coming. The official trailer has been launched ahead of the Netflix release next month. It’s cracking series that shows chimps as they’ve never been seen before.
22nd March 2023
Green Planet has been nominated for a BAFTA! It’s in the running for best Specialist Factual series of the year. I am extremely excited!
More info here: https://www.bafta.org/television/awards/bafta-television-2023-nominations
16th March 2023
Green Planet has been nominated in 7 categories at this years RTS West awards, including a joint editor nomination for myself, Jimmy Taggart, Nick Carline and Tim Lassiter - three very talented editors and all round good eggs. Fingers crossed.
More info on screenings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDk48Llm9qY
3rd March 2023
Life Ambition Klaxon! I’ve been an avid listened of Kermode and Mayo for about 20 years now and I’ve harboured the dream that one day Mark might review a film a cut… and that he might even like it…
BOOM!
More info on screenings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDk48Llm9qY
3rd March 2023
Today is the day that Fashion Reimagined finally hits the big screen. It’s being screened in over 50 cinemas throughout the UK. It’s been a labour of love for Becky the Director and an edit I’m super proud of. Watch it.
More info on screenings here: https://www.fashionreimaginedfilm.com
16th November 2022
Green Planet has come second in the Specialist Factual category in the prestigious Bulldog Televisual Awards 2022. It’s voted for by the reads of Televisual, so this one means a lot!
More info here: https://www.televisual-bulldogs.com/drama-one-off-or-serial/
13th October 2022
Green Planet has done it again! It’s won Best TV series at the Windscreen Panda awards. Bravo!
More info here: https://wildscreen.org/festival/panda-awards/
29th September 2022
Green Planet has won Best TV series at this years Jackson Hole festival - it faced stiff competition, but came home with the award! Well done to the team.
More info here: https://www.jacksonwild.org/2022-media-awards.html
16th August 2022
Another 5 nominations… this time for Lucy, The Human Chimp at the RTS West awards. We’ve been nominated for a variety of awards including Best Documentary. I have 2 nominations… the first for editing and the second I share with a very talented team for VFX and Digital Creativity.
More info here: https://rts.org.uk/article/rts-west-england-awards-nominations-announced
11th August 2022
The Green Planet has been nominated for 5 more awards! This time Panda Awards at Wildscreen, the other globally recognised Natural History Festival. Amongst the nominations is one for Best Series.
More info here: https://wildscreen.org/festival/panda-awards/
9th August 2022
The Green Planet has been nominated for 5 awards at Jackson Wild Media Awards, one of the biggest Natural History festivals in the world. Amongst the nominations is one for Best Limited Series.
More info here: https://www.jacksonwild.org/2022mediaawards.html
8th August 2022
Go team Fashion Reimagined and thank you Woods Hole Film Festival. I’m over the room to announce that Fashion Reimagined won the Best Documentary Feature Award at this years festival.
Amazing news!
More info here: https://woodsholefilmfestival.org/festival-2022/2022-festival-jury-sound-design-and-screenwriting-awards/
29th July 2022
I am delighted! Lucy, The Human Chimp has been nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Nature Documentary cateory. A huge congratulations to the team who toiled during lockdown to get this film made. Fingers crossed!
More info here: https://theemmys.tv/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/43rd-NewsDoc-Nom-Release-FINAL-rev-8.16.22-.pdf
19th April 2022
A feature documentary that I’ve been involved with for the past couple of years is finally getting it’s premier at the Tribeca Festival, 2022. Directed by the force of nature that is Becky Hutner, I hope this is the start of a very exciting journey for the film!
More info here: https://tribecafilm.com/films/fashion-reimagined-2022
19th Jan 2022
I’m delighted to say The Green Planet has been a great success and I’m extremely proud of the Water Worlds episode, and was overjoyed at a particular 5 star review who said I was one of ‘TV’s Michaelangelos’. I’ll take that!
More info here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-green-planet-review-attenborough-unearths-a-botanical-horror-flick-pvrf70w8x
4th August 2021
I’m very pleased to say that the Volcano episode of A Perfect Planet has been nominated for a couple of awards (including Best Editor) at the Jackson Wild Media Awards, 2021 - dubbed ‘the nature equivalent to the Oscars’.
More info here: https://www.jacksonwild.org/2021-media-awards.html
19th April 2021
I’m very pleased to say that Lucy, the Human Chimp is premiering on Channel 4 this very evening. It was made under the constraints of lockdown and many innovations were sprung out of this situation.
A longer version will be premiering on HBO Max in the US at the end of the month.
16th April 2021
Very excited to finally see the Meadows episode I edited hit Apple+. It was a hugely ambitious project and is well worth checking out.
4th March 2021
Ralph Jones, a journalist and writer, working for Inverse has published a great piece on the ‘Dream Team’ behind the flamingo sequence from A Perfect Planet.
Some great insights! Read it here: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/how-silverback-films-made-a-perfect-planets-astonishing-flamingo-sequence
1st February 2021
Following the launch of A Perfect Planet, I came across this wonderful quote from the big man himself about the flamingo sequence I edited from the volcano episode.
“one of the most memorable sequences I've seen on television“… Sir David Attenborough
11th October 2020
I took part in Bristol Editors Network first talk event ‘Lets Talk Sound’, where Kate Hopkins and I talked about our approach to working with sound an Editor’s secret weapon!
3rd September 2020
‘Last Breath’ won 4 awards at 2020’s RTS West awards, including Best Editing! If you’re that way inclined you can watch the whole shebang here:
https://rts.org.uk/event/rts-west-england-awards-2020
30th July 2020
‘Natural World - Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal’ has been included in the first ever Wildscreen Official Selection programme.
https://www.wildscreen.org/about/news/wildscreen-official-selection-programme-2020-revealed/
11th February 2020
‘Perfect Planet’ is coming…
“BBC One today announces that Sir David Attenborough is to present A Perfect Planet, a brand new five-part natural history super-landmark from Silverback Films.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/attenborough-presents-perfect-planet
11th February 2020
‘Last Breath’ has been officially nominated in 4 categories for the RTS West of England Awards, including Best Documentary and Best Editor.
https://rts.org.uk/article/rts-west-england-awards-2020-nominations-announced
19th September 2019
‘Natural World - Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal’ has been officially nominated for Best Natural History Documentary at this years Grierson Awards.
https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards/nominations/
5th August 2019
Hostile Planet: Oceans has been nominated in the Special Jury category for the 2019 Jackson Hole awards.
25th July 2019
Both ‘Natural World - Pangolins: The World's Most Wanted Animal’ (Best Natural History Documentary) and ‘Last Breath’ (Best Cinema Documentary) have been shortlisted for this years Grierson Awards.
https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards/shortlist/
25th July 2019
Big Cats has been nominated for Outstanding Documentary in the 40th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
19th July 2019
Hostile Planet has been nominated in 3 categories at the 71st Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.
17th June 2019
RTS West of England and The Farm hosted a sold-out screening of Last Breath at Bristol’s Everyman Cinema featuring a Q and A with myself, Alex Parkinson and Richard de Costa.
https://rts.org.uk/article/documentary-makers-discuss-making-last-breath-rts-west-england
