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A Bit Of A Stretch: True Crime Podcast Award

2024
04.26

Very happy to hear that ‘A Bit Of A Stretch’ has won the ‘True Crime Podcast Award. Picture of Chris Atkins (Director) I Was the Sound Engineer and Vincent Watts was the Composer. It was good to get the old gang back together! More information below:

“Chris Atkins is a documentary maker who went to prison for tax fraud in 2016. He spent nine months in HMP Wandsworth, one of the most dangerous prisons in the UK, and has written about his surreal experiences in his bestselling book A Bit of a Stretch. After his release he interviewed 20 ex-prisoners about their time in jail, and turned the recordings into season 1 of this podcast. Their stories are shocking, uplifting, heartbreaking, hilarious, and often downright weird, taking you headfirst into the biggest prison crisis in history. It reveals a collapsing system that is failing victims and wider society, and reveals how the human spirit can thrive in the darkest corners. Each episode is centred around a different theme, like Arrival, Family and Change, and was a huge hit on its release and the winner of the Criminal Justice Alliance media award in 2021.”

Hear the series here

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Scary Girl nominated for ‘Best Sound In Film’ AACTA awards

2024
02.09

I enjoyed creating the foley for this film. I got to experiment and find lots of creative solutions. I had to cover a giant walking octopus, a sentient tree, humanoid rabbits, assorted robots, spaceship crashes and dream sequences. This lead to me making all sorts of weird and wacky props. The clip below gives a sense of one of the worlds that the characters inhabit . The award nomination was the icing on the cake! An IMDB link is available here

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One Brit Wonder

2024
02.07

James Blunt’s career trajectory has been an interesting one. From a British Army tank captain to a best-selling artist to -seemingly- one of the most hated people in show business. This was followed by a career revival sparked by a willingness to verbally eviscerate himself and anyone else willing to spar with him on social media.  

I completed the dialogue edit and premixed the dialogue, music and SFX for this film (I am credited as dialogue editor and re-recording mixer).  Mixing fly-on-the-wall camera-sound with feeds from the back of a concerts mixing desk was tricky in places, but it was time well spent. I believe that the audience gets a good sense of who James and the band are behind the scenes. Listeners also gain a front row, surround sound experience of high points from many gigs.

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‘While The Men Are Away’ nominated for ‘Best Mini series’ at the AACTA awards

2024
01.11

I worked as dialogue editor for all eight epsodes. It can be very challenging to clean up sound for a period drama set in the countryside- there is nowhere to hide when filtering out planes/ cars. The New South Wales  cicadas and birds were often busy. The trailer is below, and the show is currently available via SBS on Demand.

More information available using this IMDB link

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Djaambi Available to View on SBS on Demand.

2023
10.01

I completed the sound design and mix for this short drama back in 2021 (lots of good dialogue editing and sound design by Leah Mckeown + Foley by Baylon Fonseca). It has had a good festival run picking up a lot of gongs along the way including this prize at the South Australia Screen Awards. If you are Australia based you can click here for link to view it on SBS on demand.

Click here for prize listings information  https://www.getbackjojo.com.au/djaambi

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‘Who Killed The KLF?’ AMPS nominated for ‘Excellence in Sound For A Factual Film

2023
06.01

“This is going straight to the pool room”(If the reference means nothing, click here for a link to a clip from ‘The Castle’ ). Photo just in from my UK press office AKA my mum’s kitchen table. ‘Who Killed The KLF’ covers the stranger than fiction story of the UK band. Following on from a theatrical release It is currently  available to stream on SBS in Australia and More 4 in the UK. It’ll make you laugh, dance/tap your feet then either think “OK, so that was what they thought they were thinking, but WHAT THE HELL WERE THEY THINKING?” or it may just inspire you to do something bold and wreckless..

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Savage River- Logie Award nominee for ‘Most Popular Drama Series’

2023
05.03

I was supervising foley editor so no tuxedo or night out in the bright lights. All the same, I am happy to be working on content people like. You can view information on Savage Rivers award nominations visible using this IMDB link. Nb I posted more info on Savage River back in February 2023 when it was AACTA nominated for best sound in TV.

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‘Flyways’ documentary, theatrical release.

2023
04.14

Flyways tells the story of  migratory shorebirds that fly thousands of killometers every year. I shot the foley and edited dialogue for this documentary feature. The birds are naturally skittish so a lot of the actuality footage was shot at great distance and sound had to be replaced. The foley involved lots feathers being flapped, rustling straw/ pecking around in wet sand, mimicking   Also I covered things like Chinese fishermen hauling sacks of shellfish, scientist wading around on mud flats. My studio looked like a bomb site afterwards!

TV versions will be released on ABC iview in Australia, ARTE in France, PBS America and in many other territories. More information is available at the film website https://flywaysfilm.com/ Trailer is below.

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Savage River AACTA nominated for ‘Best Sound in TV’

2023
02.01

I was supervising foley editor for this crime thriller set in small town Australia. If you are in Australia you can use this link to stream the programme via the ABC If not, I’ve attached the trailer and a clip that the ABC shared below.

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‘Mungo’ Wins ‘Best Indigenous/ Native People’s Film’  at the Cannes world film festival

2023
01.18

I did the sound design and mix for this short scripted film, based on real events. The synopsis is “On the cusp of his initiation, a young Aboriginal boy, Mungo, has a chance encounter with James Ashton and his travelling circus in 1853” I have just found out that it won this prize among others on a good festival run- A relief as the film was finalised as COVID was starting to get going so I didn’t know what was going to happen  . It was shot near  Tamworth (New South Wales) there was a lot of scope to immerse the audience in the sound of the Australian bush and then contrast this with circus sounds. Trailer viewable below

More information on the film and the prizes it has picked up is available at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12319304/awards/?ref_=tt_awd

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