Award-winning documentary editor and shoot-edit video producer with 9 years experience working in factual TV documentary, online video journalism and short film. I am passionate about empowering and captivating visual storytelling and have worked for TV production companies, digital journalism platforms, and nonprofits such as the BBC, Smithsonian, The Economist, the Centre for Investigative Journalism, and Amnesty International.
Skills
Non-Linear Editing: Avid MC, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition.
Editorial: Archive research, pitching stories/sequences, scripting, TV compliance editing, versioning.
Camera: Sony FS7 & A7S, C300 Mk I & II, C100 Mk II, 5D Mk III.
Post-production: offline editing, colour correction, motion graphics, sound design.
Publishing: upholding editorial, legal and ethical standards.
Clean driving license, fluent in French, proficient in editing and subtitling in foreign languages.
Projects credited in
- A Place To BeA Place To Be is a VR experience that takes viewers inside a space and time that most never knew even existed. A space devoted to black celebration in Britain, from the Windrush generation right through to the late 1980s and beyond. The unlicensed parties known as Shebeens.2
Work history
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Shoot-Edit Video ProducerSelf Employed
London, United KingdomFreelance
End-to-end video production for clients including Amnesty International, The Roundhouse, Refuge, Women in Prison, The V&A Museum, The Museum of London, The Royal Opera House, The British Museum, The BFI, Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, The Baobab Centre, Eastside and The Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Know Your Rights - Editor - Amnesty International UK
2 x 3’ highlight videos + social videos of young activists discussing child rights with Angelina Jolie.
Hub Sessions - Director / Editor - Roundhouse
6 x 10’ underground gigs with artists from across the UK filmed in the Roundhouse Hub.
Self-Shooting PD / Editor - 'World's War' by Akala - 14-18 Now / The Roundhouse
2019 Latitude Film Awards Bronze Winner for Best Music Video.
Screened at 2020 NYC Independent Film Festival.
Self-Shooting PD / Editor - 'Nursing The Nation' by Molly Case - Ex Animo Foundation / The Roundhouse
Winner of Best Short Short at 2016 London Independent Film Festival.
Winner of 2015 People's Lovie and Silver Lovie Award for Best Individual Performance.
Screened at 2016 London Short Film Festival.
Screened at 2016 Emden Norderney Film Festival.
SS PD / Editor - 'City Now City Future' - Museum of London
2 x 5’ videos of student-led investigations into hate crime and migrant work in London.
SSPD / Editor - 'Understood' - Futures Theatre / Women in Prison
Short film made with women affected by the criminal justice system on the harm caused to women, their families and our communities by imprisonment.
SSPD / Editor - 'Second Glances' - Futures Theatre / Refuge
Short film made with survivors of domestic violence on the small ways that could help someone trying to come to terms with and escape an abusive relationship, as part of the 'An Alternative Life' programme.
Senior Film EditorThe Economist
- London, United KingdomFull Time
2024
Editor - 5' - The war in Sudan, explained
Editor - 5' - Is Putin running out of soldiers?
Editor - 20’ - The World Ahead 2024
2023
Editor - 10’ - Inside America's hoax school shooting epidemic
Nominated for the 2024 Press Gazette Future of the Media Award for Online Video and the 2024 Webby Award for News & Politics. Formed part of the multimedia project, ‘Inside a month of America's school shootings’ which won the INMA Global Media Award First Place for Best Use of Visual Journalism and Storytelling Tools.
Editor - 15’ - Ocean Acidification: The Threat Bubbling Up
Film supported by @NipponFoundationPR. Screened at COP 27.
Editor - 15’ - Longevity: can ageing be reversed?
2022
Editor - 15’ - How China crushed Hong Kong
Nominated for 2023 Press Gazette's Future of Media Award for Online Video.
Editor - 10' - Why is the sex-toy industry booming?
Editor - 5' - How does raising interest rates control inflation?
Social Media
Producer/Editor/GFX - Why childbirth should have made humans extinct (IG 1.5m)
Producer/Editor - Your brain when you burn out (IG 2m)
Producer/Editor - Your brain when you're in love (IG 1.8m)
Editor/GFX - If Biden stepped aside, should Harris replace him? (IG 970k TT 1.2m)
Editor - How Geopolitics is changing finance (TT 1.1m)
Editor - Who is Argentina’s next president? ((IG 1.7m)
Editor - Altman on AGI: People will freak out then move on (TT 2.2m)
Editor - Altman: There's no red button to stop AI (TT 1.8m)
Editor - The man who lived longest in an iron lung (TT 1.1m)
Editor - The secret economics of sexual pleasure (TT 1.3m IG 1.6m)
Editor - How will the world look in 2023? (TT 1.3m)
Editor - Can we stop ageing? (IG 1.5m)
Editor - The Fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin (IG 1.2m)
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Education
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MA History of Film and Visual MediaSOAS
London, United Kingdom
Moving image representations of Africa, Japan, Palestine and India. Dissertation on Palestinian filmmaker Larissa Sansour’s exploration of Israeli, US, Arab and Palestinian moving image representations of Palestine and national, racial, religious and gender identities. Writer of program material for film festival, History on Film: Slavery & the African Diaspora from a Global Perspective.
BA(Hons) History and French (joint HonoursUniversity of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom
First Class: Distinction in Spoken French and Distinction in Dissertation
Dissertation on Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston’s anthropological approach to African American folk culture and performative oral testimony. British Council year abroad working as a teaching assistant at a lycée in La Réunion (France).