Video Editor
I’m very pleased to share the news that Secret Lives of Orangutans has been nominated for no fewer than eight awards for the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmys, including ‘Single Camera Editing’. It’s a real pleasure to see the feature length documentary garner the attention that it deserves after so much work from a small but fantastic team.
Secret Lives of Orangutans is available to watch on Netflix.
Silverback Films for Netflix – Yet to Be Released
My role: Principal storyboard and pre-visualisation editor across all episodes and main editor for one episode. On-location editing and media management.
‘Netflix has given the green light to what it calls the “next iteration” of its Emmy-contending documentary series Life on Our Planet, with Morgan Freeman set to return as narrator and Steven Spielberg as executive producer.’ – Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29/05/2024.
More details to follow at a later date!
Silverback Films for Netflix – 2024
My role: Co-Editor
Follow a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this immersive documentary narrated by David Attenborough. – Netflix
Secret Lives of Orangutans is a feature-length documentary directed by Huw Cordey. The film follows the same orangutans that appeared briefly in the Jungles episode of Our Planet, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in the jungle. It was edited in Avid Media Composer.
In July 2025, the feature was nominated for eight Daytime Emmy awards;
…the latter nomination of which I share with co-editor Khara Stibbons.
I’m very pleased to share the news that Life on Our Planet has won the prestigious RTS West of England award for editing across any genre. In addition, the series also scooped the award for best Natural History programme, going up against such incredible productions as Chimp Empire, Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory and Planet Earth III, whilst receiving further nominations for Best Director or Producer, Best VFX and Digital Creativity and Best Production Management.
The Life on Our Planet editing team consisted of Andy Netley, Nigel Buck, Alex Boyle, Rob Davies, Rupert Troskie, Sam Rogers, Dave Pearce, Andrew Chastney and myself.
The full press release from the RTS Awards can be found here.
Silverback Films for Netflix – 2023
8×60 minutes
My role: VFX Editor across all episodes
Who will rise? Who will fall? Who will rule the world? From executive producer Steven Spielberg and the Emmy® Award-winning team behind Our Planet, this is the story of Life on Our Planet. – Netflix
Edited using a mixture of Adobe Premiere and Avid Media composer, this series combined the creative force of Silverback Films with the legendary visual effects team at Industrial Light and Magic. My role on this series was working across all episodes to edit together those scenes that featured VFX.
Life on Our Planet went on to win the Editing award, along with the award for best Natural History at the Royal Television Society West of England Awards 2024.
Silverback Films for Netflix – 2023
My role: Editor for Episode 4 – ‘Freedom to Roam’
As an editor on the fourth episode, “Freedom to Roam,” I was privileged to help tell the powerful stories of animal migration, capturing the drama and resilience of these incredible creatures as they move through a changing world.
Our Planet II was edited entirely in Avid Media Composer.
Silverback Films for BBC – 2021
My role: Additional Editor, on location in Maryland, US
Following the horrendous pandemic of 2020, whilst most of the world was still in lockdown, I was incredibly fortunate to be given the opportunity to flee the UK in order to work in Flintstone, Maryland for a few weeks. Here, a small team of us documented the emergence of periodical cicadas, an event that only occurs once every seventeen years. Brood X, with their deafening song and striking red eyes, swarmed the skies, lawns and trees, and my role was to offload, process, log and edit the footage into a sequence that could be handed off to the main episode editor for finalising. The behind-the-scenes segment at the end of the episode gives you an idea of how the sequence was filmed.
The Mating Game was edited on Avid Media Composer.
Filmed in 22 countries spanning six continents and featuring 80 unique species captured on film, THE MATING GAME details the remarkably intricate, often dramatic and sometimes comical, ways in which animals begin their courtship and overcome enormous obstacles in the race to win a partner. From the great expanses of the grassland, to the deep ocean and tangled jungles, each episode captures the compelling efforts from across the Animal Kingdom that highlight how ruthless and unpredictable the ‘mating game’ can be.
The privilege of reproduction is one that many are willing to pay with their own lives and animals will go to extraordinary lengths in their desire to mate. Whether it be through thoughtful gestures, displays of power, deception or flamboyance, these interactions result in some of the most stunningly unique and shocking spectacles of wildlife on Earth.
Among mating ritual firsts captured on camera include the courtship rituals of the Great Argus Pheasant, a bird renowned among naturalists but whose courtship has never been filmed in the wild due to its extremely reclusive nature. Other firsts include an extremely rare tree frog breeding event captured in a remote patch of virgin rainforest in French Guiana on Christmas Day, as well as the fascinating and somewhat tender courtship behavior between digger bees in the Sonoran Desert that includes everything from a ‘bee brawl’ to a delicate tasting of each others scent.
In the Serengeti, a violent game is played when a Zebra stallion must defend his mares in a herd 30,000 strong, and rains in South Africa trigger intense clashes between an army of African Giant Bullfrogs. Meanwhile, the never-before-filmed display of the Argus pheasant in Borneo’s rainforest offers a much more delicate approach to the mating game.
For all who choose to play THE MATING GAME, they’ll need to flaunt what they got for a chance at seducing a mate and securing a lasting legacy. Navigating the mating season can be daunting for many eligible animals — this is nature like you’ve never seen and these animals are ready to get it on.
THE MATING GAME is produced for BBC, Discovery, and discovery+ by Silverback Films in co-production with NHK, bilibili, and France Télévisions. For Silverback, Jeff Wilson is series producer and Keith Scholey is executive producer. For Discovery and discovery+, Howard Swartz is executive producer. BBC Studios is distributing internationally.
– BBC Studios Press Room
Silverback Films for BBC – 2015
My role: Behind the Scenes Editor
I have always been fascinated by the behind-the-scenes segments that accompany TV and film production, so it was a real pleasure to get the opportunity to edit them for A Perfect Planet.
Featuring such extraordinary adventures as descending into a volcano to film iguanas, chasing wolves across frozen tundras, and piloting hovercraft across the acrid salt pans of Lake Natron to film flamingoes, I was spoilt-for-choice when it came to engaging footage and incredible tales. It was particularly rewarding to see my work get a mention in reviews.
Despite yet another glorious, enthralling, bloody and awesome – in the vital and literal senses – series from Attenborough and team, the chief draws in A Perfect Planet are to many becoming the behind-the-scenes end sections – Euan Ferguson, Guardian, 17/01/2021
A Perfect Planet was first broadcast on UK screens on Sunday, January 3rd at 8pm on BBC One.
The behind-the-scenes segments were edited entirely in Avid Media Composer.
Following a week of great reviews and press coverage, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet is now available to stream on Netflix.
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80216393
Some of the reviews so far (sourced from Rotten Tomatoes)…
‘Environmental catastrophe can be hard to convey in emotional ways. The scale of it can be deadening. Hearing it from Attenborough, however, gives the message stirring intimacy as well as authority.’
– Times (UK)
‘Attenborough’s stark documentary is essential viewing.’
– Common Sense Media
‘This incredibly important documentary pulls no punches – and will have you reaching for a reusable cup or joining the Greta Thunberg fan club the moment the credits roll.’
– The Sun
‘An incredibly important and moving document, and a warning to us all.’
– HeyUGuys
One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement. In his 93 years, David Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Now, for the first time he reflects upon both the defining moments of his lifetime as a naturalist and the devastating changes he has seen. Honest, revealing and urgent, DAVID ATTENBOROUGH: A LIFE ON OUR PLANET is a powerful first-hand account of humanity’s impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations. Created by award-winning natural history filmmakers Silverback Films and global conservation organization WWF, the film is Directed by Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes and Keith Scholey and Executive Produced by Colin Butfield. Celebrated British naturalist Sir David Attenborough has a broadcasting career spanning over eight decades. He has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and bringing the wonders of the living world to audiences worldwide through groundbreaking natural history series. His work includes: Life on Earth, Planet Earth and more recently the Netflix original documentary series Our Planet.
– IMDB
An exclusive world premiere event for David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet was intended take place at the Royal Albert Hall on 16th April 2020, where Sir David was to be joined live on stage by guests to discuss some of the most prevalent and pressing issues raised in the film. However, after a certain pandemic set in, these plans were abandoned in favour of an almost entirely online release.
Nonetheless, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet went on to garner a great deal of attention and awards, including an Emmy nomination for outstanding picture editing.
The feature was edited entirely in Avid Media Composer.
Charles Dyer 