Adam Finch is a Film Editor whose multi-award winning work spans Drama,
Documentary and The Arts.
Adam is currently cutting; OUT IN THE
COLD - a documentary mini-series following an infanticide case in Alaska,
directed by BAFTA winning auteur Alison Millar; and THE GHOST OF LINA BO
BARDI - a dramatized study of the life and work of the eponymous Brazilian
Architect, directed by Isaac Julien.
Adam’s past drama credits
include; INNOCENCE - the critically acclaimed feature film featuring Marion
Cotillard, (artistically electrifying… a once-in-a-lifetime piece of
cinema. - BBC), directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic and winner of the
Bronze Horse at Stockholm; AN ORGANIZATION OF DREAMS - featuring Dominique
Pinon, (“stunningly beautiful and brilliantly edited.” - Sight
and Sound), directed by Ken McMullen; and BALTIMORE – directed by Isaac
Julien and starring the actor director Melvyn Van Peebles, the father of
Blaxploitation Cinema, which took the Grand Jury Prize at the Kuntsfilm
Biennale;
Adam has cut a diverse range of documentary films and received
a Best Editor nomination from the RTS. Recent work includes;
SEARCHING FOR SHERGAR – unraveling the story of the racehorse kidnapped
by the IRA. Nominated for the Prix Europa 2018; SAVING YEMEN - a
hard hitting three part series tracing the build up to the devastating war;
and DEREK - a feature documentary with Tilda Swinton, which was nominated
for the ‘Grand Jury World Cinema Documentary Prize’ at Sundance and won
at Seattle.
Adam’s other credits include; AMBER: TALK – a
commercial directed by auteur director Lynne Ramsay and featuring Samantha
Morton.
He is also the editor behind Film Artist Isaac Julien’s
multi-screen artworks, which present a unique editing challenge. In
2001 the triptych THE LONG ROAD TO MAZATLAN, earned the Artist a Turner
Prize nomination and WESTERN UNION: SMALL BOATS won the award for most
distinguished work at last year’s RA Summer Show in London.
More
recently they have collaborated on larger installations; most notably the
epic nine-screen film TEN THOUSAND WAVES - starring the legendary Chinese
actress Maggie Cheung, and acquired by MOMA in New York, (“I cannot get
this work out of my mind.“ - Glenn Lowry, MOMA).
