I am immensely proud to have sound designed this glorious, audio/visual feast about the grape harvest and wine making process in the mountains of Portugal.
Featuring a sumptuous voice over by Malcom McDowell in the English version and Simone de Oliveira in Portuguese, With a sumptuous narration by Malcom McDowell in English and Simone de Oliveira in Portuguese and with such very little dialogue, there was so much space to fill these glorious images awash with sound.
Read MoreHBO’s It Will Be Chaos (pictured) and Hulu’s Crime + Punishment were among the winners at the 40th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which took place at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York last night (Sept. 24).
The ceremony honored both national and international nominees in more than 50 categories focused on documentaries, news reports and multimedia projects.
Read MoreIt Will Be Chaos is nominated for the 2019 40th annual new and documentary Emmy awards in the Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary category.
Read MoreWe set sail from Puerto Natales northwards to Puerto Eden around 6am. Navigating through fijords and tiny islands, I couldn´t believe some of the narrow passages that this large ferry managed to skillfully navigate it´s way through. Sometimes the ship ground to a halt before a large mountain before turning respectfully and meandering it´s way past, sometimes only metres away from large daunting rocks. Here before us came Drake, Darwin, Magellenes and Fitz Roy. Whilst in the process of losing their way, or becoming stranded along some shore, many of these waterways have been granted such ominous sounding names like Last Hope Sound, Salvation Bay and Desolate Bay. Even the region that we were in is called Ultima Esperanza or Last Hope.
Read MoreApril 13th 2006
It´s Wednesday. I´m sat in a jeep parked outside the entrance to a Zapatista community high up on a mountain top about an hour from the nearest large town, San Cristobal.
It´s misty right now. Low cloud is making visibility practically impossible. What am I doing here? Nick, the director of this documentary, is somewhere inside the gates of this autonomous community attempting to negotiate an interview with Commandante David, head of the base. He´s been gone ages now. At least an hour and a half. I’ve seen countless people enter and leave the base through the gates manned by two guys wearing the symbolic and famous black balaclavas worn by the Zapatista movement.
Read MoreOur final day began with yet another strong note of caution. As if the previous evening and night had itself merely been an illusion, Werner jumped back into commenting on commentary and advised us to take it easy with text that is overloaded with too much depth. 'There are moments when you can depart far from the text', he said. He gave the end of Cave of Forgotten Dreams as an example.
Read MoreThe morning session began with an unexpected occurrence, an occurrence that sublimely facilitated the forgetting of the Fitzcarraldean trial that was reaching Crawley train station first thing on a Sunday, whilst engineering rail works shut down the entire local network. There was, of course, the other painful recollection that it was indeed early on a Sunday morning.
Read MoreDay 1: Read, read, read, read.
I wanted to be as far forward as possible to be able to see Herzog's every muscle move in his face, to observe every movement, to completely concentrate and to listen. My notepad quickly opened, my pen at the ready, my only purpose to be attentive and to write down everything he uttered.
Read MoreWhilst on the 16.27 train from Clapham Junction to Crawley many peculiar thoughts entered my head. First of all, why Crawley? Werner Herzog had chosen the furthest hotel from Gatwick Airport for his first European and third-in-all Rogue Film School, a hotel that happened to sit on the fringes of this town. Secondly I had to remember to breathe as I found myself reliving the moment the email fell into my inbox with the subject heading, 'Congratulations!!!'
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