True crime feature documentary Blood Money: The Curse of the Brink's - Mat Robbery premieres on Tuesday 10pm, January 31st at Channel 5 and My5.
In November 1983, a gang of balaclava-clad armed robbers broke into the Brink's-Mat security depot near Heathrow and fled with pure gold, worth £26 million - equivalent to around £94 million today. Now nearly 40 years on, police officers and key witnesses, many speaking for the first time, reveal the inside story behind Britain's biggest gold robbery.
Hong Kong: City On Fire + Q&A is screened in ODEON cinemas across the UK on the 22nd of November 2022.
Beijing has tightened its grip on Hong Kong in recent years, dimming hopes that the financial centre will ever become a full democracy. The film is a frontline portrait of the protests and follows four young protesters through a year of struggle.
Follow the link to buy the tickets and see the film in the cinema.
In 2021 Pawel Stec from edit511 edited broadcast versions of the film screened at ARTE and German TV station WDR.
The trailer and all social media clips were made at edit511.
World War II: Secrets from Above documentary series has been nominated for 2022 BROADCAST TECH INNOVATION AWARDS in the INNOVATIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN STORYTELLING category.
The series will be competing with America the Beautiful - V/SPEED, Dinosaur With Stephen Fry, BBC News at Six & Ten studio and FIFAe Finals 2022.
The Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards celebrates the role technology plays in creating and broadcasting the most outstanding productions of the past year.
Among this year’s nominations in other categories are: Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough, Doctor Who - Season 13, Dodger, 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, Peaky Blinders - Series 6, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Responder, and more.
Follow the link to see the nominations list.
INDRA’S NET is a series of 9 short videos prepared for this year’s edition of Frieze London.
Go to INDRA’S NET page to see the videos.
Watch 2 of 9 Instagram posts below:
World War II: Secrets from Above documentary series is now on National Geographic channel across Europe.
An article found on National Geographic explains innovative visual techniques used in the series.
Follow the link here and watch the series on National Geographic channel.
World War II: Secrets from Above airs 8PM Mondays from 19 September on the National Geographic channel, available on Sky (129) and Virgin Media (266).
WWII: Secrets From Above series begins on Monday 19th September at 8pm on the National Geographic Channel in the UK.
Broadcast dates on National Geographic in other countries:
Netherlands - begins 13th September 2022 - 9pm
Belgium (Flanders region) - begins 13th September 2022 - 9pm
France - TBC
Germany - begins 14th September 2022 - 9pm
Poland - begins 16th September 2022 - 10pm
UK - begins 19th September 2022 - 8pm
WWII: Secrets From Above series is going to have its premiere in the UK and globally at National Geographic TV in September 2022.
Rolls-Royce all-electric ‘Spirit of Innovation’ aircraft is officially the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft. On 16 November 2021, the aircraft reached a top speed of 555.9 km/h (345.4 mph) over 3 kilometres, smashing the existing record by 213.04 km/h (132mph).
At the end of 2021, I worked at Stamp Productions, and together with a director Jonathan Lamb we made two films documenting breaking the record.
Watch the promo below and 14 minutes documentary here.
Chinese authorities censor and ban "When a City Rises" and other pro - democracy films, art and literature. According to the new law, anything related to the pro-democracy movement can’t be shown or distributed. Artists and filmmakers can face severe punishment.
“When a City Rises” purpose is a historical record of what happened in the past few years with democracy in Hong Kong. The events can’t be erased and history can’t be silenced or banned.
Read The Guardian article by Helen Davidson to learn how Chinese authorities censor history.
LINK HERE
You can see “When a City Rises” at the festivals around the world and in Europe. The broadcast versions that I have edited are shown on ARTE and WDR at the moment.
For more information about the film and the screenings go to the official website www.whenacityrises.com
I had a chance to edit a broadcast version of an award winning documentary When a City Rises made by a collective of directors Cathy Chu, Iris Kwong, Ip Kar Man, Huang Yuk-kwok, Evie Cheung, Han Yan Yuen, Jen Lee and produced by Sinead Kirwan.
On the 6th of October WDR German TV station is showing 85 minute version that I edited. Here is the link.
If you are in Poland in October go and see 105min cinema version at Warsaw International Film Festival 2021. Follow the link for details.
This thrilling, immersive documentary tells the story of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests through the eyes of four main characters.
After many years of work, Eastern Illuminations has finally premiered on the 23rd Kino na Granicy / Kino na Hranici / Cinema on the border Film Festival in Cieszyn / Cesky Tesin .
This exceptional documentary directed, filmed and produced by Zuzka Markova was a labour of love and passion for Eastern European Cinema.
Milos Forman, Agnieszka Holland, Márta Mészáros, Andrzej Wajda, Kalory Makk, Jiri Menzel, Daniel Olbrychski, Juraj Jakubisko and many many more gave unique interviews about their way of making films during communist regime; dealing with communist party rule, Russian dictate, political turmoils and censorship.
Made with help of the Visegrad Fund the film is important to learn about history and cinema, but also to remind ourself how important democracy and freedom are.
Fourteen-year-old Mohammed is Gaza's best swimmer. He is on a mission to be his nation’s first Olympic swimming champion and now he has the opportunity of a lifetime - to go to Germany and train in an Olympic-sized pool with an elite team. It’s the first time he has been to Europe and just as he gets close to the qualifying time he needs, the Covid pandemic hits the world.
I’m like a fish is a 30 min long documentary that I worked on with Elena Andreicheva, an Oscar and BAFTA winning director and producer.
The film has been broadcasted on BBC on the 25th of July and is now on BBC iPlayer.
A symbol of British countryside - turtle dove have suffered a drastic decline in the UK, with an estimated population drop of 98% since 1970. There are serious concerns that the species could soon disappear from the country and Europe entirely because of land urbanisation and hunting. Turtle doves are shot in huge numbers on migration but some European countries seem unwilling to stop shooting them.
Go to Channel 4 News page or follow the link here to see the full story. I worked on the film together with director Rachel Seifert and commissioning editor Louise Turner.
