SHORT FORM / CO & ADDITIONAL EDITS
I GET KNOCKED DOWN (2021) - CO-Editor
87mins - 2021- So&So Pictures
Directed by Sophie Robinson & Dunstan Bruce
Produced by Sophie Robinson
Edited by Paul Holland & James Scott
I Get Knocked Down is the untold story of Leeds-based anarcho-pop band Chumbawamba. Founding band-member Dunstan Bruce is 59, and he is struggling with the fact that the world seems to be going to hell in a handcart. Twenty years after his fall from grace, Bruce is angry and frustrated, but how does a retired middle-aged radical get back up again? In this punk version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Dunstan is visited by the antagonistic ghost of his anarchist past – his alter ego, ‘Babyhead’ – who forces him to question his own life, sending him on a search for his long-lost anarchist mojo.
Following Bruce’s personal voyage of rediscovery, redemption, and reawakening, I Get Knocked Down acts as a call to arms to those who think activism is best undertaken by someone else.
UNTOLD CHAOS (2021) - Editor
40mins - 2021- Guardian Documentaries / Field of Vision / Bad Donkey Film Production
Directed by Giovanni Buccomino
Produced by Naziha Arebi
Edited by James Scott
At the end of his Presidency, Obama said his worst mistake was failing to plan for the day after the intervention in Libya. Filmed over seven years, this is a unique window into life in a country now in the hands of warlords, with no clear political path, a proxy war and a failing international peace process. An observational untold mosaic of besieged cities and vast deserts, ancient languages, diversities and divisions.
Yet among the chaos we glimpse a quest for democracy and a thirst for reconciliation from those who are often unseen and unrepresented.
THE REASON I JUMP (2020) - Additional Editing
82mins - 2020 - Met Film Production
Directed by Jerry Rothwell
Produced by Al Morrow, Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee
Edited by David Charap
Additional Editing by Paul Dosaj & James Scott
Based on the best-selling book by Naoki Higashida, THE REASON I JUMP is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida’s revelatory insights into autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe.
The film distills these elements into a sensually rich tapestry that leads us to Naoki’s core message: not being able to speak does not mean there is nothing to say.
THE SURGEON’S CUT (2020) - editor: episode 3 living donor
55mins - 2020 - BBC Studios Production / NETFLIX
Directed by Sophie Robinson
Executive Producers Andrew Cohen & James Van der Pool
Edited by James Scott
The Surgeon’s Cut profiles four ground-breaking surgeons from around the world, each with a visionary approach to their craft. Viewers will follow along as they perform innovative operations and procedures, and reveal personal insight into their journey into medicine, providing a unique window into the world of surgery.
EPISODE 3 - Dr. Nancy Ascher has devoted her career to organ transplants and transplant research. The first woman to ever perform a liver transplant surgery, The Surgeon’s Cut follows her at the University of California San Francisco where she continues to make strides in the field of medicine.
The mortician of manila (2019) - editor
25mins - 2019 - An Al Jazeera Witness production with Disobedient Films
Directed by Leah Borromeo
Edited by James Scott
Orly Fernandez manages and lives at Eusebio’s – a 24-hr funeral parlour in Manila. His relationships with clients and the journalists he meets daily colour the empathy and contempt he holds for drug war victims who, like him, are struggling to survive.
THE SCHOOL IN THE CLOUD (2018) - co-edit
85mins - 2016 - Met Film Production in association with Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program & TED Prize Filmmaker Award
Directed by Jerry Rothwell
Produced by Al Morrow & Dan Demissie
Edited by James Scott & Alan Mackay
What is the future of education in a networked world? TED Prize winning scientist Sugata Mitra installs an unmanned Internet kiosk in a remote Bengali village to pioneer “The School in the Cloud”. As children encounter the Internet for the first time, will they be able to use it to transform their futures?
Orion: the man who would be king (2015) - development editor
86 Mins - 2015 - Documentary
Creative England presents in association with Ffilm Cymru Wales, BBC Storyville and Broadway. A Glimmer Films Production in association with Truth Department and Met Film.
Directed by Jeanie Finlay
Edited by Lucas Roche
Development Editor James Scott
ORION: The Man Who Would Be King, a film by Jeanie Finlay tells the story of Jimmy Ellis – an unknown singer plucked from obscurity and thrust into the spotlight as part of a crazy scheme that had him masquerade as Elvis back from the grave.
With a fictional identity torn from the pages of the best selling novel Orion by Gail Brewer Giorgio, the backing of the legendary birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll Sun Records and a voice that seemed to be the very twin of Presley’s himself, the scheme – concocted in the months after Presley’s death exploded into a cult success – and the “Elvis is alive” myth began.
The story of Orion proves that fact is indeed ‘stranger than fiction’. This is the story behind that story. Who was that masked man?
A CURIOUS LIFE (2014) - co-edit
78mins - 2014 - Dandy Films
Directed by Dunstan Bruce
Produced by Daisy Asquith & Steve Moore
Edited by Alan Mackay, Ella Newton & James Scott
A film by Dunstan Bruce - The Story of the Levellers and 25 Years of Subsidised Dysfunctionality.
Despite over 25 years of rock 'n' roll excess and music press vitriol, the Levellers are still alive...and still here. In Dunstan Bruce's fascinating film 'A Curious Life'; Jeremy Cunningham, the eccentric artist, archivist and whiskey loving bassist of the Levellers takes us on an often hilarious journey; exploring how the band rose to fame from headlining Glastonbury and the plethora of gold and platinum albums to the depths of drug-fuelled despair to ultimately surviving and thriving in the present day.
Threshold, hard words & organic geometries (2009) - Editor
A series of short documentaries for Four Square Fine Arts
Directed by Mark Birbeck
Edited by James Scott
For many years, Eberhard Ross has taken inspiration for his work from natural phenomena and also from music. Ross painstakingly covers canvases and sheets of paper with networks of lines and pattern that evelop organically in a repetitive and meditative process which he calls “organic geometry”. In the apparent randomness of the lines he is searching for a quality or a non-symmetrical order as one finds in nature in the veins of plants, in the flow of water, in the grain of wood, in the mass flocking of birds in the sky.
For over 20 years, contemporary landscape artist Marco Crivello's work has been grounded in an exploration of improvisation. Threshold takes us into the artist's studio, with revealing footage of his improvised working methods. In an engaging interview, Crivello reflects frankly on his creative dialogue, it's challenges, and how ultimately he believes a surrender to process, with its letting go of expectations and preciousness, is always a threshold to new possibilities; raising wider implications for the creative process' potential to enrich our daily lives.
Hard Words, was commissioned as a visual interview to mark Ellen Bell’s solo London show held at the Air Gallery in September 2008. In it she shares her fascination with the power and limitations of language, the paradox of formal dictionaries with fixed meanings and yet the often elusive and ambiguous nature of our experiences. A fascinating introduction to this challenging and insightful artist’s work.