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The Witcher

Release date: 2019

Directors: Alik Sakharov, Charlotte Brändström & Alex Garcia Lopez

The witcher Geralt, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Official Site: https://www.netflix.com/title/80189685

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSqi-8kAMmM&t=1s

Hobbs & Shaw

Release Date: July 13, 2019

Director: David Leitch

Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity .

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7PAyCDwEg

The OA: Part 2

Release Date: March 22, 2019

Director: Zal Batmanglij

Part II follows OA as she navigates a new dimension, one in which she has a completely different life, and where once again she finds herself as Hap's captive. Back in the first dimension, BBA, Angie and the boys find themselves on a journey to understand the truth behind OA's story and the incredible realities she described.

Role: Lead Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSXDaRR2bw

(Contributed to work in The OA Part II Breakdown Reel. More information here: One of Us).

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Release Date: 14 December 2017

Director: Rian Johnson

Having taken her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Rey continues her epic journey with Finn, Poe and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the saga.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CbN8sfihY

(Contributed to work in Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Design Reel. More information here: One of Us).

Widows

Release Date: 6 November 2018

Director: Steve McQueen

Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN2yBBSRC78

A Wrinkle in Time

Release Date: 23 March 2018

Director: Ava DuVernay

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ

The Virtues

Release: Date: 15 May 2019

Director: Shane Meadows

Stephen Graham stars in Shane Meadows compelling four-part drama about a man haunted by his past

Role: Compositor

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOons8oVsmE

Catherine the Great

Release Date: October 21, 2019

Director: Philip Martin

Oscar-winner Helen Mirren will lead miniseries Catherine the Great as the tumultuous monarch and politician who ruled the Russian empire and transformed its place in the world in the 18th century. The four-part historical drama will follow the end of Catherine’s reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54JoryNToJw

The Revenant

Release Date: December 25, 2015

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu

The Revenant follows the story of legendary explorer Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) on his quest for survival and justice. After a brutal bear attack, Glass is left for dead by a treacherous member of his hunting team (Tom Hardy). Against extraordinary odds, and enduring unimaginable grief, Glass battles a relentless winter in uncharted terrain.

This epic adventure captures the extraordinary power of the human spirit in an immersive and visceral experience unlike anything before.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoebZZ8K5N0

The Crown

Season 1

Release Date: 4 November 2016

Directors: Benjamin Caron, Stephen Daldry, Philip Martin, Julian Jarrold

The Crown Season 1 - VFX Breakdown

Completed over 45 shots on the BAFTA and RTS winning VFX crew for The Crown Season 1 at One of Us. As well as nominations for HPA Award, Emmy, Televisual Bulldog Award.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWtnJjn6ng0

(Contributed to work in The Crown Season 1 - VFX Breakdown reel. More information here: One of Us).

Voyage of Time

Release Date: 7 October 2016

Director: Terrence Malick

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience is a one-of-a-kind celebration of life and the grand history of the cosmos, transporting audiences into a vast yet up close and personal journey hat spans the eons from Big Bang to the dinosaur age to our present human world… and beyond. A labor of love from one of American cinema's most acclaimed and visually exciting filmmakers, Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life), Voyage of Time represents the filmmaker's first foray into documentary storytelling. The film's panorama of awe-inspiring images will take you into the heart of monumental events never witnessed — from the birth of the stars and galaxies to the explosion of diverse life-forms on planet earth, including humankind — in immersive new ways that only IMAX can deliver. This is a cosmic experience — a hymn to the glories of nature, life and scientific discovery — in which all the elements come together to form Malick's most original film to date.

Part of the VFX crew nominated for a VES award for Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrNn8tlvX6Q

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

Release Date: 2 November 2018

Directors: Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston

A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXfxLIuNJvw

Life

Release Date: March 18, 2017

Director: Daniel Espinosa

A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuA-xqBw4jE

Assassin's Creed

Release Date: December 13, 2016

Director: Justin Kurzel

Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in this action-adventure film based on the critically acclaimed video game franchise. Through a technology that unlocks his memories, Callum (Fassbender) discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0k_ZVbJROw

The Current War

Release Date: 26 July 2019

Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FTxKFsWz60

Outlander

Series 4

Release Date: November 4, 2018

Directed by: Julian Holmes, Ben Bolt, Denise Di Novi, Jennifer Getzinger, David Moore, Mairzee Almas & Stephen Woolfenden

Season Four of "Outlander" continues the story of time-travel 1960's Claire Fraser and her 18th century husband Jamie Fraser as they try to make a home for themselves in the rough and dangerous 'New World' of America.

Role: Compositor at One of US.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMVizqMN83o

RESPIRE

Release Date: 7 July 2017

Director: Frederick Lloyd

After a rapture-like event, the last two souls on Earth wander the ruins of civilisation, awaiting the end of the world. Questioning why they were left behind and what awaits them beyond death, they realise that all that really matters is their love for each other. Inspired and conceptualised from the music of composer Ursine Vulpine, the film acts as a visual, poetic accompaniment to his debut album 'Respire', featuring music from the album as it's soundtrack.

Role: Visual Effects Supervisor, Compositor.

Film: https://vimeo.com/216683429

Mars

Season 1

Release Date: 14 November 2016

Director: Everardo Gout

Of all the planets in our solar system, none has captured our collective imagination like Mars. Follow the first human mission to Mars, set in 2033, as the crew struggles to safely land on and colonize the planet. Tracing the thrilling quest to make Mars home, National Geographic presents a new breed of programming, blending cinema-quality scripted drama set in the future with documentary sequences that features current space-technology pioneers..

Role: Compositor at One of Us.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIXHLC24aY

Utopia

Season 1 & 2

Release Date:
14th January 2013

Created by: Dennis Kelly

Directed by: Marc Munden, Wayne Che Yip, Alex Garcia Lopez

When five online strangers are drawn together by the legendary manuscript of a cult graphic novel, they find themselves pursued by a secret and deadly organisation known only as The Network.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnN3WMwDsk

Top Boy

Season 2

Release Date: 20 August 2013

Director: Jonathan van Tulleken

A gritty British crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London. In this series, Dushane (Ashley Walters) has worked his way to the top but finds he has an enemy in his one-time associate Sully (Kane Robinson) who now has a new ruthless crime partner. When their common nemesis Kamale (Scorcher) is found dead both Dushane and Sully fall under suspicion. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Ra'Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) is lying low with the district youth squad trials fast approaching but his friend Gem (Giacomo Mancini) is unable to do the same.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5eGdn9uhYk

Call The Midwife

Season 2 & 3

Release Date: 25 December 2012, 25 December 2013

Director: Philippa Lowthorpe, Roger Goldby, China Moo-Young, Minkie Spiro, Thea Sharrock, Juliet May, China Moo-Young

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Role: Onset VFX Supervisor, Compositor at Shadowjack VFX

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xetB7V-3Tjc

Burton and Taylor

Release Date: 22 July 2013

Director: Richard Laxton

Drama telling the story of Hollywood's most glamorous couple, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, who acted together for the last time in Noel Coward's Private Lives in 1983.

Role: Onset VFX Supervisor, Compositor at Shadowjack VFX

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgEZkPSm6es

Cucumber

Release Date: 22 January 2015

Created by: Russell T Davies

Director: David Evans, Alice Troughton, Euros Lyn

Life for 46-year-old Henry and his boyfriend Lance is comfortable and settled. But after a comically disastrous date night, Henry's old life shatters and his new life begins.

Role: On Set VFX Supervisor, Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iP9gA4u9c

Banana

Release Date: 22 January 2015

Created by: Russell T Davies

Directed by: Lewis Arnold, Luke Snellin, Al Mackay

A series of eight witty, charming and unique stand-alone stories, Banana covers 50 shades of gay and beyond – offering an intriguing and often outrageous peek into the individual lives, loves and losses of a range of characters. Young lesbian, Scotty pursues an unrequited love; 19 year old Dean has mysterious family secrets and a sexually charged liaison with the enigmatic Geordie Man; Sian struggles to choose between lover Violet and her over-protective mum Vanessa; and Helen who’s besieged by unwanted attention from an ex.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyJ0hc7ifTo

Misfits

Series 4 & 5

Release Date: 28 October 2012, 23 October 2013.

Created by: Howard Overman

Directed by: Nirpal Bhogal, Jonathan van Tulleken, Dusan Lazarevic, William McGregor, Lawrence Gough, Lewis Arnold, Wayne Yip.

Awarded the BAFTA for best drama series, Misfits follows a group of ASBO teenagers who develop strange powers after they are caught in a freak storm. This comedy drama series first aired in the UK in November 2009 to massive critical acclaim and went on to receive a host of awards and nominations.

Role: Onset VFX Supervisor, Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4XaFpK8gA

Hot Paint

Release Date: 17 July 2011

Director: Dan Noall

A short documentary discussing the topic of copyright and sampled based artwork. Featuring interviews from audio/ video remixer Cassetteboy, founder of the website whosampled.com Nadav Poraz, digital artist Paul B. Davis and art journalist Francesca Gavin.

Role: Camera, Editor, Animator.

Film: https://vimeo.com/26541750

Residue

Release Date: 31 March 2015

Director: Alex Garcia Lopez

The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oFUjKxK3CI

A Long Way Down

Release Date: 21 March 2014

Director: Pascal Chaumeil

In this touching comedy based on the acclaimed novel by Nick Hornby, A LONG WAY DOWN centers on four strangers (Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots) who decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve. However, when they meet by chance on a London rooftop, they agree to halt their plans for six weeks. Along the way, they discover that even accidental, dysfunctional families make life worth living.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12jCVd5Evko

Anthony

Release Date: 2014

Director: Jonathan van Tulleken

Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Film: https://vimeo.com/88350662

The Way The Lamp Swings

Release Date: 7 June 2012

Director: Peter Kelly

Adrift on a boat in the middle of the ocean, a fisherman and his daughter are desperately trying to fix their engine and return home. Haunted by the truth of his past, the fisherman must face his traumas in order to understand the cause of his unfortunate situation.

Role: Editor,Visual Effects Supervisor, Compositor, Promo Animation,.

Film: https://vimeo.com/49473257

Promo: https://vimeo.com/29753180

Pantheon

Release Date: 7 June 2012

Director: Frederick Lloyd

Whilst working aboard a satellite orbiting earth, A cataclysmic incident leaves an Astronaut stranded in space, isolated, alone and fighting for his life. In his darkest hours he discovers himself and the importance of the love he left behind.

Role: Onset Visual Effects Supervisor, Compositor, Computer Screen Animation.

Film: https://vimeo.com/42293055

Hunderby

Series 1

Release Date: 27 August 2012

Created by: Julia Davis

Director: Tony Dow

Set in the 1830s, this black comedy centers on a woman who is washed ashore after her ship is wrecked off the English coast.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy0oYzia1sg

SunTrap

Release Date: 27 May 2015

Director: Ben Palmer

Crime comedy. An undercover reporter and his former mentor join forces to solve mysteries on a Spanish island.

Role: Lead Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=SKOuwRApmmE

Chickens

Release Date: 22 September 2013

Director: Ben Palmer

Simon Bird and Joe Thomas star in this comedy sitcom set in a small English village during the First World War.

Role: Compositor at Shadowjack VFX.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1PERIz3rXg

Clipped

Release Date: 2018

Director: Jonathan Flint

A coming-of-age film, that looks at 16-year-old Sam, as she finds herself caught in a destructive and abusive relationship between her mum Claire, and her mum's boyfriend Jack.

Role: Visual Effects Artist

The Witcher

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The OA: Part 2

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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Widows

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A Wrinkle in Time

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The Virtues

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Catherine the Great

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The Revenant

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The Crown

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Voyage of Time

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

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Life

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Assassin's Creed

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The Current War

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Outlander

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RESPIRE

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Mars

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Utopia

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Top Boy

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Call The Midwife

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Burton and Taylor

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Cucumber

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Banana

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Misfits

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Hot Paint

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Residue

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A Long Way Down

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Anthony

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The Way The Lamp Swings

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Pantheon

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Hunderby

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SunTrap

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Chickens

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Clipped

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