BIFA Best Editing Nominees (and the rose between them) 🌹
how to heist the BIFA nominations:
1. assemble a team from all over the world, each with their own unique set of skills.
2. create a plan, draw up the blueprints and bring all ideas to the table. experience is irrelevant. it’s about what you bring today.
3. mess it all up and start again.
4. keep fighting.
5. keep going.
6. hack the system.
7. celebrate for five minutes.
8. plan the next hit.
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💄@pekisdom@charlottetilbury
💆♀️ @ella._.loui
stills from 2024!!
lots of fun work this year! especially excited about all the stuff that’s not out yet!! thank you to everyone I had the pleasure to work with, and hopefully there’s more coolness in 2025!
THE PAINTER AND THE LOVER YET TO BE - So incredibly proud of Beth for taking such a huge leap in directing her first ever short (and setting it in the late 1800s Incase the challenge wasn’t enough)… we’ve finished the edit and sending it around festivals and im completely in love with these stills, very very honoured to get to produce it and figure out how to travel back 150 years without a budget (huge props to art dept for that one)
Could not have done it without such an insanely wonderful crew and great performances from @sophie.laurenxoxo and @__grip__grit__ ! All hail @feaverfilm for his cinematography too!
Anyway, last time I’m gonna post abt these films I promise - can’t wait for people to see this one!
Last year, Beth and I went to Sheffield to go see PULP. After the first two songs, Jarvis pulled the curtain ahead of the band, stopped the music and read us the opening to BREAK IT DOWN by Lydia Davis.
It made me laugh, and then I forgot about it and enjoyed the rest of the show.
But something must have stuck with me. A while later I was having a terrible time with the winter dark, and was most of the way through reading a collection of Davis’ stories.
I kept thinking about Break it Down. It had lodged itself somewhere in my chest and wouldn’t move. It’s a story about loving people, and watching something that once felt full, break down into nothing; save, maybe an old t-shirt.
So that’s the story I settled on. JOHANNA IS LOST AT SEA is my best attempt at getting at that feeling - that every person you’ll ever meet is a graveyard of everyone they’ve ever loved or hated, we all have shards of each other lodged in our hearts. It’s cruel, really.
P.S - do yourself a favour and listen to wickerman by pulp, and an even bigger one by getting yourself the collected stories of Lydia Davis.
big ol thanku to everyone who helped out! ur all cool and wonderful and surprisingly patient given the amount of duct tape you all had to deal with
DoP: @joeehoyin & @gibby_1109
Poster photo: @gibby_1109
On-set photo: @scrawny_nan
⭐️’ing:
@bethffrances as JOHANNA
@__grip__grit__ as GEORGE
we got back from japan last night so here’s a speedy edit because it was all very cool
NOT PICTURED: us eating 7-eleven curry on the first day and then being unable to find a bin anywhere in the hotel for the next 3 nights while it slowly rots, eventually resulting in me wrapping it in 3 plastic bags to contain the smell, trying my very best to not throw up while beth looks on despondently.
