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.
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 marked the first World Wildlife Day, and to commemorate the occasion, the UN Headquarters in New York hosted a film festival in partnership with Jackson Hole and CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna). A number of films were screened to those attending the event, raising awareness of both the beauty and fragility of world, and what we can do to protect it.
Those films that best impressed the carefully selected jury, were presented with awards, and I’m pleased to announce that two of the films that I worked on (one of which I edited, and both of which I graded) were selected as the winners of their respective categories.
We’re still making content to accompany the Our Planet series that was released earlier this year, but some of our first films just picked up awards at the prestigious Jackson Wild Festival (previously the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival).
How To Save Our Planet – Winner of ‘Best Changing Planet Film – Short Form’
‘Awarded for the best examination of our changing planet, including human impact, the environment, sustainability and climate change. Sponsored by Smithsonian Channel.’
How To Save Our Planet – Winner of ‘Best Limited Series Film – Short Form’
‘Awarded to the mini-series with episodes shorter than 20 minutes in length, that most effectively advances a natural history theme. Sponsored by ARRI.’
…and if that weren’t exciting enough, the main series (for which I was edit assistant) also scooped up some great awards as well;
Our Planet: High Seas (main series episode) – Winner of ‘Best Ecosystem Film’
Our Planet: Frozen Worlds (main series episode) – Winner of ‘Best Changing Planet Film’
Now in its twenty-eighth year, the world-famous Jackson Wild Film Festival (previously known as the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival) kicks off on Saturday 21st September 2019, with seven days of sessions, screenings, workshops and exhibitions to entertain and inspire. On the final day, creatives from all over the world will gather for the Grand Teton Awards Gala in the hopes of winning one of the festivals prestigious awards.
This year Our Planet, along with the accompanying online video content that I edited as part of a small team, battled through a list of 1,000 entries to receive no less than eight nominations.
From the Our Planet Series, for which I was edit-assistant…
From the web-based video content to accompany the series, for which I was an editor…
The Grand Teton Awards Gala will take place at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming at 6pm on Thursday, 26th September. For more information on the festival and other finalists, please visit the official website.
Charles Dyer 