Cut Above Panel
Sponsored by Flawless
Saturday 15th February, 9am - 12pm
Panelist's
Editor's Panel Tickets
Cut Above Panel - £35
Editor's Ticket (non-member)
(includes Breakfast)
Cut Above Panel Student- £25
Student Ticket (non-member)
(includes Breakfast)
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EDITORS' PANEL
HOST Eddie Hamilton, ACE BFE
Headline Sponsor - Flawless AI Demonstration
Panel Guests - Bafta and BFE Cut Above Awards Guests
Venue: Picturehouse Central, 15 Great Windmill Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly Circus, London W1D 7DH - First Floor Restaurant and Screen 1
When: 15th February 2025, doors open 9am, panel starts 10.30am
BFE launches its inaugural annual awards panel event. Starting with breakfast drinks and a pastry in the Picturehouse Central restaurant. Hosted by esteemed Editor, Eddie Hamilton, ACE BFE, the Editor's Panelist
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Pinny Grylls - Grand Theft Hamlet
Mel Quigley BFE - Kill Zone: Inside Gaza
Juliette Welfling - Emilia Perez
Gints Zilbolodis - Flow
Jake Roberts - Civil War
Jerome Eltabet - The Substance
Otto Burnham, ACE BFE - Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Dan Hembery - Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The presentation includes clips from their films.
The event which includes Q&A will take a deep dive into the craft of the editors.
The event will be held at Picturehouse Central and attended by Editors and select industry guests.
09:00 - Breakfast Reception, Drinks & Pastry (includes Flawless AI demonstration available in upstairs restaurant)
10:00 - Guests to access Screen 1
10:30 - Panel starts
12.00 Ends
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You will be placed on the Guest List
Entrance Criteria: Please bring photo ID with the name on the ticket at the door.
Students please bring your Student photo ID
Panel
Pinny Grylls
Grand Theft Hamlet
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2996028/
Pinny Grylls is an award winning director and editor. In 2024 she won the BFI Chanel Filmmaker Award for her debut feature film Grand Theft Hamlet which she directed and edited. Co-directed with her partner actor Sam Crane, Grand Theft Hamlet won the SXSW Jury Award for Best Feature Doc and 2 BIFA Awards (Raindance Maverick and Outstanding Debut Feature) and was longlisted for an Outstanding Debut BAFTA. It will be distributed in cinemas in the UK and the US in 2024/2025 by Tull Stories and MUBI.
The film is about their journey to stage a live performance of Hamlet inside Grand Theft Auto which won a Stage Innovation Award. The BFI is currently supporting her to develop her 2nd feature Hear My Voice, which is about a boy who dreams of being an opera singer and his relationship with his deaf father. Pinny’s debut short documentary ‘Peter and Ben’ premiered at IDFA won awards at festivals, including Aspen, LSFF, and SXSW and she has made short documentaries for Channel 4 (Who Do You Think You Were?), Guardian (Thank You Women) BBC/ The National Theatre (The Hour), The Royal Opera House (Becoming Zerlina).
Pinny is deaf/ Hard of hearing and lives in Hackney, East London. She uses BSL to level 3.
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Melanie Quigley BFE
Killer Zone - Inside Gaza
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620134
Multi-genre documentary editor with over 25 years experience working for UK &
international broadcasters.
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Credits include major documentary series & multi award-winning current affairs for
BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & Discovery.
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Other specialist areas include arts, history & education, both long & short-form.
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Dan Hembery
Wallace & Gromit - Venegence Most Fowl
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1958185
Dan Hembery is a senior editor at Aardman working in the industry for over 20 years. He has worked across a broad spectrum of Aardman’s content from commercials and shorts to series, specials and features.
After working under acclaimed editor Sim Evan-Jones on Early Man (2018) and Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon (2019) Dan’s recent credits include the International Emmy award-winning Shaun the Sheep: Adventures from Mossy Bottom (2020) and Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (2021), and most recently Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024).
He is currently working on a new as yet unannounced Aardman feature film.
Jake Roberts
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Civil War​
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1075638
Jake has worked with Alex Garland for several years cutting ‘Civil War’, ‘Men’ and all 8 episodes of the TV series ‘Devs’. He is currently editing the second part of the 28 Years Later Trilogy ‘The Bone Temple’.
Starting out as a tea boy in a post facility Jake worked his way through the industry cutting documentaries, music videos, commercials and television drama before establishing himself as a feature editor. As well as his work with Alex Garland he has edited numerous films including ‘Alien: Romulus’, ’‘Brooklyn’, ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’, ‘Outlaw King’, ‘Starred Up’ and ‘Hell or High Water’ for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
He lives in Somerset with his wife and 3 sons.
Jerome Eltabet
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The Substance​
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/fr/name/nm1593899
Jérôme Eltabet is a french narrative editor, mainly known for his work with director Coralie Fargeat.
Their collaboration dates back around 20 years and they have been working together on Revenge and The Substance.
Gints Zilbalodis
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Flow
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6478535
Gints Zilbalodis (born 1994) is a Latvian filmmaker. He is best known for directing the animated features Away (2019) and Flow (2024), the latter of which received nominations for Best International Feature Film and Best Animated Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, making it the first Latvian film to earn multiple nominations.
After directing a string of animated short films, Zilbalodis' debut feature, Away, premiered in 2019. Written, directed, and scored by Zilbalodis himself, Away was awarded the Contrechamps prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production.[2][3]
Zilbalodis' second feature film, Flow, was selected to screen in the Un Certain Regard portion of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.[4] Unlike his past works, Flow marked the first time Zilbalodis collaborated with other staff, with animation co-produced by Sacrebleu Productions of France and Take Five of Belgium.[5] It went on to win numerous awards worldwide, including Best Animated Feature at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards,[6] while receiving nominations for two British Academy Film Awards and two Academy Awards, including Best International Feature Film and Best Animated Feature. (Bio taken from Wikipedia)
Juliette Welfling
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Emilia Perez - Bafta Nominated
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919761
Juliette Welfling began her career at age eighteen as an intern on Jean-Charles Tachella’s Cousin cousine. She later befriended Jacques Audiard while both were working as assistant editors, and she earned her first editor credit on his directorial debut See How They Fall. Welfling has received César nominations for each of Audiard’s eight films, winning four times: for See How They Fall, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, and Rust and Bone. She received an additional César nomination for Asghar Farhadi’s The Past, as well as a César win and Oscar nomination for Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Welfling has also collaborated with other directors including Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep) and Gary Ross (The Hunger Games, Ocean’s Eight).
Otto Burnham ACE BFE
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
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IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3324968
Otto Burnham an award winning (Eddie, Emmy & RTS) Film Editor. Always looking to push documentaries into a more cinematic space his work on “Atomic People”, “Apollo Thirteen Survival” & “Super/Man” has established him as one of the leading young(ish!) editors in the UK. A proud father of mixed Afro-Caribbean descent, outside documentaries he is a video game playing, music loving, film nut who tries sneaking in his favourite three F’s - F1, football and fishing when he can. But really his love is for crafting emotional, stylish & dynamic stories. He loves editing. Actually loves it.
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