Currently in Post-Production

Release 2024

Documentary - 94mins

Archer’s Mark / PT Film / BFI Doc Society / PBS POV

Directed by Joseph Curran & Dominic Aubrey de Vere
Produced by Jo-Jo Ellison & Yvonne Ibazebo

Edited by James Scott

WORLD PREMIERE
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2022 Competition

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sheffield Doc Fest 2022
DOKUFEST KOSOVA 2022
Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2022
Movies That Matter 2023

As the Chief Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s doomed £285m airport project, Annina van Neel witnessed the unearthing of a terrible secret. Haunted by a historical injustice, she takes on institutional and governmental ambivalence to expose disturbing truths about Britain’s colonial past.

The project was part of the first wave of grantees of the BFI / Doc Society Fund.

Documentary - 120mins

Bad Donkey Film Production / EIE Film in Association with RAI Cinema / EYESTEELFILM

Directed by Giovanni Buccomino
Produced by Naziha Arebi & Giovanni Buccomino
Executive Producers: Bob Moore, Maya Daisy Hawke, Jarreth Merz

Edited by James Scott

★ WORLD PREMIERE ★
IDFA 2021 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

★ WINNER ★
GRAND PRIZE FIFDH Int’l Film Festival on Human RIghts

★ WINNER ★
BIOGRAFILM 2022 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

★ OFFICIAL SELECTION ★
CPH:DOX 2022
HOTDOCS 2022,
ONE WORLD Int’l Human RIghts Documentary Film Festival
DOK.fest MUNCHEN 2022
Millenium DOC AGAINST GRAVITY 2022
BIOGRAFILM 2022

"When injustice exceeds what you can withstand you’ll do anything”. This is the story of a brother and sister who fought on opposite sides of the Libyan revolution. In the years that follow they navigate injustice, PTSD, revenge, hope, elections, extremists, and a proxy war as they raise their children amongst the chaos. Formally civilians, our siblings are constantly pulled between family or country, survival or change, unable to escape their recent past. Filmed over six years we get under the skin of a country unknown and experience the psychological impact of modern warfare, international intervention, and the fragility of democracy, at close range.

AFTER A REVOLUTION is supported by: Sundance Film Institute / Field Of Vision / Doha Film institute / San Francisco Film Fund / Rai Cinema / Piemonte Regional Fund / Tribeca Film Institute.

Short Documentary - 34mins - Dogwoof / SKY Arts

Directed & Edited by James Scott

★ Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere★

★ Winner Best Short Documentary★
Warsaw International Film Festival
Orlando International Film Festival
Rome International Film Festival

No one on the planet has drawn more than Laurie Lipton.

With millions of tiny strokes of her humble pencil, Laurie’s haunted images seek answers to some of the most uncomfortable themes in our culture. But what compels her to live a life of isolation drawing is neither black nor white.

www.lovebitefilm.com

Documentary - 85mins - Clink Street Films / Dartmouth Films

Directed by Will Francome & Mark Pizzey
Produced by Laura Shacham

Edited by James Scott

America’s most divisive issue – capital punishment – is running into some trouble. With drug supplies for lethal injections drying up and public support at an all-time-low, the struggle to keep executing is taking its toll. 

The Penalty follows three people caught in the crosshairs of capital punishment and the political landscape that could decide their fate.

Going behind the scenes of some of the biggest headlines in the history of America's death penalty, the film follows the lethal injection protocol crisis that resulted in a botched execution; the rehabilitation of a man who spent 15 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit, and the family of a young woman - brutally murdered - split by the state's pursuit of the ultimate punishment.

www.thepenaltyfilm.com

Documentary - 85mins - NETFLIX / Met Film / Dogwoof
Directed by Jerry Rothwell & Reuben Atlas
Produced by Al Morrow

Edited by James Scott

With pockets full of cash, charisma and a preternatural memory for vintages, an unassuming young Rudy Kurniawan earns the reputation of a wine savant, surrounding himself with some of high society’s most fervent wine connoisseurs. But when Bill Koch, a top US collector,and, Laurent Ponsot, a Burgundian wine producer, discover suspicious bottles, a humorous and suspenseful investigation begins into one of the most ingenious cons of our time.

www.sourgrapesfilm.com

Documentary - 110mins - Dogwoof / Met Film

Directed by Jerry Rothwell
Produced by Al Morrow

Edited by James Scott

★ Sundance Special Jury Award for World Cinema Documentary Editing
& Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Feature Length Documentary ★

Grierson Award, Best International Documentary on a Contemporary Theme
International Documentary Association Pare Lorenz Award, 2015
Best Environmental Film, Sheffield DocFest, 2015
Reykjavik International Film festival, Best Documentary 2015
Hot Docs Top Ten Audience Favourite, 2015
Sebastopol Documentary Festival, Best Feature 2015

Available on NETFLIX in some countries.

How To Change The World is about a group of friends who, in their fight to save the planet, find that they must also fight each other. This film tells the story of the pioneers who established Greenpeace, using intimate footage from their personal archives.

www.howtochangetheworldmovie.com

Documentary - 88mins - NETFLIX Original / Sunshine Pictures

Directed by Sophie Robinson & Lotje Sodderland

Edited by James Scott

★ Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Science & Technology Documentary ★

My Beautiful Broken Brain is a profoundly personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of the human brain, after Lotje Sodderland miraculously survives a hemorrhagic stroke and finds herself starting again in an alien world, bereft of language and logic.

www.mybeautifulbrokenbrain.com

Documentary - 77mins - Succulent Pictures

Directed by Toby Amies
Edited by James Scott

★★★★ - The Guardian
★★★★ - The Times
★★★★ - The Independent

Available on NETFLIX in some countries.

In this "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema", Toby Amies crosses the line between filmmaker and carer, trying to cope with the strange and hilarious world view of the fragile eccentric, Drako Oho Zarharzar. A love story.

www.themanwhosemindexploded.com

Documentary - 93mins - Met Film / BBC Storyville / Vertigo

Directed by Jeanie Finlay
Produced by Al Morrow

Edited by James Scott

★★★★ - Total Film
★★★★ - Evening Standard
★★★★ - The Herald

Californian hip-hop duo Silibil n' Brains were going to be massive. What no-one knew was the pair were really students from Scotland, with fake American accents and made up identities. A film about truth, lies and the legacy of faking everything in the desperate pursuit of fame.

www.jeaniefinlay.com/hiphophoax

Documentary - 92mins - Monster Pictures

Directed by Andrew Leavold
Edited by James Scott

Winner: Filipino Audience Award Terracotta Far East Film Festival London 2014

Official Selection: Sheffield Doc Fest, Melbourne Int'l, CINEMANILA, Viennale, Udine Far East Fest, Fantasia Int'l Film Fest 2014 & Rotterdam Int'l Film Fest 2015

The Search For Weng Weng is the bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its little James Bond superstar Weng Weng.

www.searchforwengweng.com

Documentary - 72mins - Dandy Films

Directed by Dunstan Bruce
Edited by James Scott

Official Selection & Runner Up for the Music Doc Award IDFA 2012

Ray Yao is the 'best organiser of the China for punk rock bands!' and Sham 69 are a bunch of middle-aged punks, the first British punk band to ever tour China. A 14 day slog across the length of a country in the process of rebuilding and reinventing itself with a group at war with themselves.

A selection of strange and surreal lo-fi peccadilloes from the past...

No matter. Try again.
Fail again. Fail better.
           - Samuel Beckett

You have to make 20 questionable films before you ever make a good one.
(paraphrased & elaborated)
            -Robert Rodriguez