Cut Above Panel

Held on Saturday 15th February 2025
Hosted by Eddie Hamilton, ACE BFE

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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

BFE held it's first Cut Above Panel at the Picturehouse Central in the 2025 awards season which was an amazing success. The event took place two days after the British Film Editors, Cut Above Awards Ceremony at London’s BFI, on the Saturday morning of the 15th February, the day before the UK BAFTA Awards.

Guests were treated to a delicious networking breakfast, with engaging demonstrations from Flawless of their Deep Editor Software, being the sole sponsors for the event.

Panelists

About Host Eddie Hamiliton, ACE BFE

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357835

“It was so exciting for me to be hosting this panel. When I was younger I remember dreaming about going to the Egyptian Theatre in LA to watch the Invisible Arts Invisible Artists Panel which is held the day before the Oscars every year. I did get to go in 2006, but I always wanted to have a version here in the UK, so that we could get to hear these incredibly talented editors talk about the films that have done so well on the awards circuit.” Panel Host Eddie Hamilton, ACE BFE

Eddie recently completed editing Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One and is now hard at work on Part Two. Before that Eddie cut Top Gun: Maverick, directed by Joseph Kosinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, for which he was nominated for the Oscar and BAFTA Film Editing awards, and won the ACE Eddie and Hamilton Behind The Camera Award. He also cut Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation for director Christopher McQuarrie. Other credits include Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass for director Matthew Vaughn. After 30 years in the industry Eddie has cut over 20 feature films (both indies and studio movies) in a wide variety of genres as well as TV dramas, documentaries and award-winning short films. His enthusiasm for big screen storytelling is matched only by his total dedication to the craft of film editing, his nerdy technical expertise and his undisputed love of chocolate. He has given presentations on Avid Media Composer editing at NAB and IBC. Eddie is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, American Cinema Editors, British Film Editors and BAFTA, was on the feature film panel at EditFest London in 2013 and 2018, and was the keynote speaker at EditFest Los Angeles in 2022. Bio taken from https://www.eddiehamilton.com/

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

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1620134

Multi-genre documentary editor with over 25 years experience working for UK &
international broadcasters.

Credits include major documentary series & multi award-winning current affairs for
BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & Discovery.

Other specialist areas include arts, history & education, both long & short-form.

Dan Hembery

Wallace & Gromit - Venegence Most Fowl

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

Civil War

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

The Substance

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

Flow

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

Emilia Perez - Bafta Nominated

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

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

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.