Nick Fenton

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Nick Fenton is an award-winning and internationally renowned English film editor who is now based in Victoria, Australia. In early 2021, Nick edited NITRAM, directed by Justin Kurzel, which then played in competition for the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where Caleb Landry-Jones won the Best Actor Actor prize. Relocating to Australia in 2019, Nick collaborated with Justin Kurzel on his film THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG, starring George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam and Russel Crowe, for producers Daybreak Pictures and Porchlight Films. The film was nominated twelve times at the 2020 AACTA Awards, including Best Film and Best Editing. Nick's work on the film was also nominated for Best Editing in Feature Drama at the 2020 ASE Awards. In 2019, Nick also edited Francis Annan's film ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA, which starred Daniel Radcliffe for Arclight Films. Nick has worked across many genres, including editing short films and working with artists such as Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller. Their longstanding relationship began with the filmed re-enactment of THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE, directed by Mike Figgis. Another collaboration, ENGLISH MAGIC, was part of Jeremy's exhibition representing Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2013. Nick's feature film credits include Richard Ayoade's SUBMARINE and THE DOUBLE, Anton Corbyn's LIFE, Benedict Andrews' UNA starring Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn, Ian McEwan's screen adaptation of his novel ON CHESIL BEACH directed by Dominic Cooke starring Saoirse Ronan, Matthew Heineman's A PRIVATE WAR and the 2018 Sundance hit AMERICAN ANIMALS with director Bart Layton awarded a BIFA for best editing and an Independent Spirit Nomination for editing also. Nick has also collaborated with acclaimed director Clio Barnard for 20 years on her early shorts, THE ARBOUR, THE SELFISH GIANT, and DARK RIVER. Television drama credits include two of David Hare's THE WORRICKER TRILOGY, TURKS AND CAICOS and SALTING THE BATTLEFIELD. Comedy credits include Julia Davis's NIGHTY NIGHT and the Charlie Brooker / Chris Morris cult series NATHAN BARLEY. In 2020, Nick completed production on the BBC drama series A SUITABLE BOY, produced by Lookout Point and directed by Mira Nair, now streaming on Netflix internationally. Television documentary credits include the EMMY award-winning THE BOY WHOSE SKIN FELL OFF, for which Nick won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Factual Editing and more recently as part of the team that cut the Emmy Award-winning series EXODUS: OUR JOURNEY TO EUROPE, for which they won an RTS Award for Best Factual Editing and were also nominated for a BAFTA TV Award. Feature documentary credits include BAFTA-nominated TAKING LIBERTIES and the kaleidoscopic musical journey ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES for Warp in the UK. Other musical collaborations have been with Sigur Rós on their films HEIMA and INNI, and Nick edited and co-directed (with Peter Strickland) the ambitious music documentary film BJÖRK: BIOPHILIA LIVE for the hugely popular Icelandic singer. Information above via their homepage.

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The Order

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.

6.6

Year:

2024

Ellis Park

As a child growing up in Ballarat, musician Warren Ellis often found inspiration and comfort in creativity and imagination. His father Screamin’ Johnny Ellis, a Country musician himself, imbued Warren with a love of music that shaped his life. Along the way Warren experienced artistic and emotional highs and lows with The Dirty Three, the Bad Seeds and his own struggles with addiction. And then in 1999, Warren jumped on stage at one of Nina Simone’s final concerts, taking her used chewing gum from her piano. In the intervening years, the gum transformed in Warren’s mind, taking on the form of a holy relic, inspiring his work, his personal life and ultimately leading him to a friendship with Femke Den Haas, a wildlife warrior in the rainforests of Sumatra. Here they built Ellis Park, a refuge for abused and trafficked animals.

0.0

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2024

We Dare to Dream

Unprecedented access to the IOC Refugee Olympic Team before, during and after the 2020 Games, which saw 29 athletes competing in Tokyo, originating from 11 countries, and residing in 13 host nations.

8.0

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2023

Nitram

Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.

7.0

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2021

Escape from Pretoria

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

7.2

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2020

True History of the Kelly Gang

Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.

5.9

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2019

A Private War

One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

6.8

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2018

American Animals

Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.

6.7

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2018

On Chesil Beach

In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.

6.2

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2018

Dark River

After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.

5.7

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2017

Una

When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.

6.1

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2017

Life

In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.

6.0

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2015

Björk: Biophilia Live

From a mind unlike any other, Biophilia Live chronicles the multidimensional concert centered on the eighth studio album of avant-garde Icelandic artist Björk. Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland, unique voices in their own right, film Björk live in performance and punctuate her music with evocative animation and science and nature footage. The infinitely creative journey presents a culmination of work that represents one of the most original musical endeavors of a generation.

7.6

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2014

Björk: Biophilia Live

7.6

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2014

The Double

An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

6.5

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2014

Salting the Battlefield

David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.

6.3

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2014

Turks & Caicos

The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.

6.3

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2014

The Selfish Giant

A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.

7.3

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2013

Austenland

Obsessed with the BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice", a woman travels to a Jane Austen theme park in search for her perfect gentleman.

6.4

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2013

A Gun for George

Author Terry Finch struggles to find an outlet that will stock or reprint his violent pulp crime series "The Reprisalizer"

7.0

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2011

Submarine

15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.

7.4

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2011

Bad Night for the Blues

Blues rinses, portraits of the queen and stand up bingo. Chris Shepherd delves into his past and recalls the world of his Aunty Glad and her local Conservative Club. The hues of blue that make up the Tory heartland are more than just a party - they are a state of mind.

6.0

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2010

The Arbor

The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 18-year-old Andrea penned a play about growing up in the community titled "The Arbor".

7.3

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2010

So Many Ways to Hurt You

The Life And Times of Adrian Street

0.0

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2010

All Tomorrow's Parties

Covers the history of the long running All Tomorrow's Parties music festival, utilizing footage generated by the fans and musicians attending the events themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone.

6.5

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2009

Arctic Monkeys - At The Apollo

At the Apollo is a live album and video release by the Arctic Monkeys of their final concert from their 2007 world-tour, filmed in Manchester, England. It was filmed on 35mm film and in surround-sound. It has been awarded best music DVD 2009 by the NME. The music played in the introduction credits was written by Bruno Nicolai, entitled 'Servizio fotografico' from the film “The Red Queen Kills Seven Times” starring Barbara Bouchet.

6.5

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2008

Heima

Ethereal post-rock pioneers Sigur Rós play a string of impromptu gigs in their native Iceland after finishing a world tour in 2006. As they travel through the country, the band visits a wide variety of venues, from a large outdoor festival to a coffee shop.

7.7

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2007

The Sickie

When events at work prove too stressful for Douglas Knott, a diligent and extremely busy office manager, he decides to throw a sickie. Unfortunately, his attempts to enjoy a day off are soon sabotaged by the insidious voice of his conscience. Literally.

7.0

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2006

One for the Road

One for the Road follows Jimmy, Paul, Richard and Mark who meet on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Jimmy is young, ambitious and desperate to sell his late father's business; Paul has been salesman of the year three times running, however, that was five years ago; Richard is a retired millionaire property developer and Mark is a taxi driver with a weakness for weed and philosophy.

5.8

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2003

Talking with Angels

A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.

8.0

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2003

The Battle of Orgreave

Intercuts dramatic photographic stills from the clashes in 1984 with footage of the clashes re-enacted in 2001, together with moving and powerful testimonies, to tease out the complexities of this bitter struggle.

0.0

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2002

Mavis and the Mermaid

A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.

0.0

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2000

Tales from a Hard City

This British-French documentary chronicles the endeavors of a group of star struck young people in Sheffield England as they attempt to break into show business. Glen, a petty thief, is pretty good at karaoke. Paul, a boxer who wants to act, must deal with an image consultant. He also is trying to wheedle local car dealers into giving him a free car in exchange for his star quality. Sarah, a young mother who was recently arrested and put in jail during a Greek holiday for immoral dancing, tries to take that incident and launch a singing career. She is assisted by several unscrupulous entrepreneurs. Wayne Chadwick, a bar owner, is one of them.

0.0

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1995