JOHNNY BURKE
Films I have edited have gone on to win a wide range of INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, such as:
Grand Jury Prize, Sheffield Documentary Festival: A Syrian Love Story, 2015.
International Documentary Association and Grierson Nominated, Best Short Documentary:
Tashi and the Monk, 2015
Special Jury Prize Batumi International Art-House Film Festival: The Reluctant Revolutionary.
Audience Award at the Berlinale, and Most Entertaining Documentary at the British Documentary Awards (Grierson): The Yes Men Fix the World.
The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Volda, Best International Documentary: Japan A Story of Love and Hate.
Amnesty International Awards Best Documentary, and British Foreign Press Association Award Best Television Documentary: Boys From Baghdad High.
CREDITS:
A SYRIAN LOVE STORY:
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize, Sheffield Documentary Fes- tival ("The jury were enamoured by this Bergmanesque portrait of a relationship and love, taking place against an ever-changing and tumultuous backdrop." ), and Special Jury Prize at Biografilm Festival, Bologna. A BFI and BBC Storyville film about a Syrian family, filmed over 5 years, before, during and after the Arab Spring. Director Sean McAllister. 2015. (Story Editor. FCP)
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TASHI AND THE MONK:
Winner of 10 awards, including the International Documentary Association (IDA) Best Short and Pare Lorentz award, Grierson Shortlisted, this HBO documentary is about a wild and troubled orphan child struggling to adapt to her com- munity in the Indian Himalayas. Awards: IDA, Telluride Mountain Film Festival, Vancou- ver International Film festival, Banff film festival. Co-Director and Editor, 2014. https://vimeo.com/95735800
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SECRETS OF THE SALES:
Cherry Healey presents this behind the scenes look at the techniques used to persuade us to buy things. BBC1. Renegade Pictures. 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYeQEJAHcRA
THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY: BBC Storyville feature length documentary about the Arab Spring in Yemen. Director Sean McAllister. Executive Producer Nick Fraser. (FCP). Selected as the opening film of the Panorama section, Berlin International Film Festival. Audience Award - EBS International Documentary Festival, Seoul, South Korea. Special Jury Prize - Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF), Georgia. https://vimeo.com/ondemand/reluctantrevolutionary/73530921 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PvNUl3gCX4 http://seanmcallister.com/reviews/the-reluctant-revolutionary/
SECRETS OF THE POP SONG: BBC2 programme about the art of writing a pop ballad, with Guy Chambers and Rufus Wainwright. Renegade Pictures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1IbpceQ3RA
CLOSING GUANTANAMO: BBC2 ‘This World’ film shown in the primetime 7pm slot, presented by Michael Portillo, about Barack Obama’s decision to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. Dir. Alex Cooke. Renegade Pictures. (Avid) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHPlLW9gG8g
ENEMY OF THE STATE: Al-Jazeera commissioned film also screened at Sheffield In- ternational Documentary Festival 2009, about an Iraqi poet living in exile, Nabeel Yaseen, who escaped execution under Saddam’s regime and returned to Iraq for the first time in 27 years. Dir. Georgie Weedon. Al-Jazeera. (Final Cut Pro)
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD: a feature length documentary which had a UK and US cinema release, by political pranksters, the Yes Men. Winner of the Audience Award best feature Doc at The Berlinale and Most Entertaining Documentary at the British Documentary Awards (Grierson). Directors Mike Bonano and Andy Bichlebaum. Co-edi- tor. Renegade Pictures. Arte/HBO. (Final Cut Pro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazUh0Ym8rc
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JAPAN: A STORY OF LOVE AND HATE: Three years in the making, this is a BBC Sto- ryville, feature doc about a part-time Japanese postman, his nightclub hostess girlfriend, and the emergence of Japan’s ‘new poor’. Producer/co-editor. Director Sean McAllister. TenFoot Films. BBC/NHK. (Avid) YIDFF, Yamagata, Japan – Special Prize + Citizen’s Prize. The Norwegian Documentary Film Festival, Volda, Norway – Best International Documentary. Nodo Doc Fest, Trieste, Italy – Special Jury Prize. Ismailia International Festival for Documentary & Short Films, Giza, Egypt – Best Documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjqd3sIcfrY https://vimeo.com/ondemand/japanastoryofloveandhate/11478536
VEGAS COMES TO CHINA: 3 x 1 hour observational films for National Geographic channel, about the boom taking place in Macau China. Editor/Edit Doctor/Scriptwriter. Renegade Pictures. (Final Cut Pro) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NQ1CsiH61M
THE OBSERVER ETHICAL AWARDS: 12 short documentary films highlighting the work being done at grass-roots level, to improve aspects of the world we live in, from ethically sourced fashion labels, to sustainable food production. With interviews featuring Colin Firth, Elle McPherson, Ken Livingstone. Director/Editor. Guardian Films. https://vimeo.com/11005986
THE BOYS FROM BAGHDAD HIGH: broadcast on BBC1 at the primetime slot of 9pm, this Grierson nominated feature length documentary for This World, follows the lives of 4 boys in a Baghdad high school, filmed over the period of their final year in school. Win- ner of the British Foreign Press Association Award for Best Television Documentary/Fea- ture 2008. Winner Amnesty Awards Best Documentary 2008. Directors Ivan O’Mahony and Laura Winter. Renegade Pictures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so7ZKNX48EI
UNITED GATES OF AMERICA: a 60 minute documentary for BBC4 series VISIONS OF AMERICA, investigating the massive growth in gated/security fenced communities in the USA. Dir. Alex Cooke. BBC4. (edited FINAL CUT PRO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw3hXS1Q-BQ
WHAT KILLED MY DAD?: a 40 minute REAL STORIES for BBC 1, which got the high- est ever viewing figures in the history of the strand, revealing the scandalous number of unreported deaths due to hospital super-bugs, and widespread inaccuracy in the system of death certification. Dir: Angie Mason. Films of Record.
THE REAL 8 MILE: this documentary film followed the lives of a number of wannabe rappers from Detroit, the home town of Eminem and 50 Cent, as they struggle to make it within a context of a dying industrial city. Director Alex Cook. Discovery Time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxjiys-C4wM
THE IRAQI ADDICTS: award-winning (Mental Health Media Award 2006) news feature for Channel 4 news, about the widespread and unsupervised use of anti-depressant drugs among a desperate Iraqi population. Dir: Dr Omar Saleh and Theresa Smith. Guardian Films.
THE TENT PREACHERS: a one hour investigative documentary looking into the grow- ing political clout of the Christian Right in the American Bible-belt. Director Alex Cook.. Discovery Time. Sept 2005.
NIGERIAN CAMPUS KILLINGS: an extended news feature about the gruesome mur- ders of students on university campus’s, presented by Nobel Laureate Wole Soyenka. Channel 4 News. Dir: Sara Nason. Guardian Films. June 2005
THE YES MEN: A news feature about pranksters who pretend to be Republicans in the run-up to the American presidential election. Channel 4. Dir: Sara Nason. Oct 2004.
A VISUAL HISTORY OF ISLAM: a visually stunning journey, shot on Super16, through Islamic art, architecture, design and calligraphy. Atacama. Director: Mark Whatmore. September 2004
THE BIG H: a broadcast commercial for Huddersfield University. Atacama. Director mark Whatmore. August 2004
The Making of ROAD TO LADAKH and LITTLE TERRORIST: two half hour ‘making of’ documentaries about these Oscar-nominated dramas by Ashvin Kumar. Alipur Films. July-August 2004.
https://vimeo.com/10963745
DREAMING LHASA: a feature film, recently premiered at Toronto and Cannes, about the Tibetan exile community living in Dharamsala, North India. Director: Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin. White-Crane Films. June 2004
THE LIBERACE OF BAGHDAD: a documentary for award winning (Sundance, BIFA, Berlin) filmmaker Sean McAllister film which went on to win at Sundance 2005. TenFoot Films. BBC Storyville. June 2004. Assistant Producer/Assistant Editor. http://seanmcallister.com/films/the-liberace-of-baghdad/
THE PROTECTORS: 2 one-hour documentaries for BBC1 about sex offenders living in the community. Director Nick Poyntz. Films of Record. February 2004:
HEY GIRL: a music video for EARDIS, the first broken-beat band to have a Number 1 Hit in the UK singles chart. Tedious Journey films. MTV. January 2003
“TOTAL ADVENTURE”, produced, scripted and edited three half hour programmes for this National Geographic series. Series Producer Richard Stansfield. Creative Touch/ Raw Material Films. Nov 2003
‘SINGING SENSATION, 4 music videos following young up-and-coming Pop singers who won a national singing contest. Dir: Andrew Hinton CC-Lab. August 2003
“Age of Innocence: Giving HIV/AIDS a human face”, A documentary for the AIDS& CHILD charity, about European children with Aids/HIV. Dir: Natasha Serlin. Dec 2002:
“War War No F**king War!” A reversion of the 80’s anarchist rock group, CRASS’s, per- formance videos, screened at the NFT. Dir: Penny Rimbaud. July 2002.
REFEREES
Alex Cooke/Alan Hayling
Renegade Pictures
alexcook@dircon.co.uk
alan.hayling@renegadepictures.tv
+44 (0)207 4794 200
Jacqui Timberlake
Guardian Multi-Media
+44 (0)7786416038
jacqui.timberlake@theguardian.com
Andrew Hinton
Pilgrim Films
+44 (0)78462713