Adam Finch is a Film Editor whose multi-award winning work spans Drama,
Documentary and The Arts.
Adam is currently cutting; EARWIG,
directed by french auteur Lucile Hadzihalilovic and featuring Romola Garai,
and F@ck This Job, a feature documentary tracing the tumultuous last
decade of Putin's Russia through the furtunes of it's last
independent television channel - TVRain
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), 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).
