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Wolf Park - Demelza Kooij (exp. 2024)
Feature documentary
Role: Editor
LOGLINE
A filmmaker unveils our paradoxical longing for wilderness when she visits a wolf park in Quebec, Canada.
PROJECT INFORMATION
On Canadian woodland where wild wolves roam freely, stands a park with wolf enclosures. It uniquely allows tourists to touch and play with wolves. When a filmmaker sets off to make a film about the park, she becomes increasingly conflicted yet mesmerised by the park. She wonders what draws people to wolves; why tourists come to a park for a ‘wild’ experience, and what humans mean when they say the words 'nature' and 'free'.
Along the way, wolf Talla emerges as a character. She is rejected by her pack and loses part of her ear in a fight. Because Talla lives in a sanctuary, she can't leave the pack by herself (as would happen in the wild). Therefore, the animal keepers need to intervene and help her. In doing so, the film shows the intricate and prudent involvement of humans required when wild animals are kept in an enclosure.
The film explores life at the park, listens to the animal keepers, tourists, and an Innu elder. Slowly we move away from this human perspective to a wordless space where wolves are allowed to 'speak up'.
Traversing a human and wolf gaze Wolf Park is a story of our paradoxical relationship with the wild.
Supported by: Screen Scotland
Selected by: Eurodoc 2023, DocCelerator 2023
Crew
Director – Demelza Kooij
Producer – Anita Norfolk, Folk Film
Director of Photography – Joris Cottin
Additional Cinematography – Demelza Kooij
Music and Sound Design – Lars Koens
Editor – Kieran Gosney
Feature documentary
Role: Editor
LOGLINE
A filmmaker unveils our paradoxical longing for wilderness when she visits a wolf park in Quebec, Canada.
PROJECT INFORMATION
On Canadian woodland where wild wolves roam freely, stands a park with wolf enclosures. It uniquely allows tourists to touch and play with wolves. When a filmmaker sets off to make a film about the park, she becomes increasingly conflicted yet mesmerised by the park. She wonders what draws people to wolves; why tourists come to a park for a ‘wild’ experience, and what humans mean when they say the words 'nature' and 'free'.
Along the way, wolf Talla emerges as a character. She is rejected by her pack and loses part of her ear in a fight. Because Talla lives in a sanctuary, she can't leave the pack by herself (as would happen in the wild). Therefore, the animal keepers need to intervene and help her. In doing so, the film shows the intricate and prudent involvement of humans required when wild animals are kept in an enclosure.
The film explores life at the park, listens to the animal keepers, tourists, and an Innu elder. Slowly we move away from this human perspective to a wordless space where wolves are allowed to 'speak up'.
Traversing a human and wolf gaze Wolf Park is a story of our paradoxical relationship with the wild.
Supported by: Screen Scotland
Selected by: Eurodoc 2023, DocCelerator 2023
Crew
Director – Demelza Kooij
Producer – Anita Norfolk, Folk Film
Director of Photography – Joris Cottin
Additional Cinematography – Demelza Kooij
Music and Sound Design – Lars Koens
Editor – Kieran Gosney
The Hermit of Treig - Dir. Lizzie MacKenzie
Feature Documentary
Winner of Best Single Documentary - BAFTA Scotland 2022
Role: Editor (with Ling Lee)
After 40 years of solitude, a spirited elderly hermit opens his life to young female director as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness he calls home.
Year of Production: 2022
Duration: 79 min
Director: Lizzie MacKenzie
Producer: Naomi Spiro
Website: https://www.screen.scot/film-in-scotland/made-in-scotland/film/the-hermit-of-treig
Screenings:
The Hermit of Treig was shown for the first time on BBC Scotland in 2021 as part of BBC Scotland’s programming looking at climate and environmental issues ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. This was followed by a screening on BBC4 in May 2022.
The film won the Audience Award for Glasgow Film Festival 2022
The Hermit of Treig was released across UK cinemas from 25 March, 2022
After 40 years of solitude, a spirited elderly hermit opens his life to young female director as he tackles ill health, a declining memory, and questions whether he can live out his last years in the wilderness he calls home.
Year of Production: 2022
Duration: 79 min
Director: Lizzie MacKenzie
Producer: Naomi Spiro
Website: https://www.screen.scot/film-in-scotland/made-in-scotland/film/the-hermit-of-treig
Screenings:
The Hermit of Treig was shown for the first time on BBC Scotland in 2021 as part of BBC Scotland’s programming looking at climate and environmental issues ahead of COP26 in Glasgow. This was followed by a screening on BBC4 in May 2022.
The film won the Audience Award for Glasgow Film Festival 2022
The Hermit of Treig was released across UK cinemas from 25 March, 2022
A Cat Called Dom - Dir. Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson
Feature Documentary
Winner of Powell & Pressburger Award for Best Film at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022
Role: Editor
Will, a frustrated animator, records a message to his mother. He explains “confessionally” that the film he was trying to make with his collaborator, Ainslie Henderson, failed. It was a film that they were making about her, after she contracted mouth cancer 5 years ago.
He explains the purpose of him talking to her now, in a candid way about it, might just be the final closure his Mum and family need. Why did he invent an imaginary cat called DOM who exists only on his computer and begins to get in the way? Needing to move on, the film they shot and animated will now explain what they were trying to do.
The film plays out from Will’s perspective today, a composition of thoughts, images and scenes - reflecting and editing together a letter to his mother. A self-reflective and self-referential film that blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction. This video message or ‘letter’ to her is a device that guides the film’s narrative. As if being ‘live edited’ the film has a playful urgency, enabling the viewer to authentically experience the journey with Will and the other characters.
Year of Production: 2022
Duration: 65 min
Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson
Producer: Finlay Pretsell, Will Anderson
Website: https://wanderson.xyz/portfolio/acatcalleddom
Will, a frustrated animator, records a message to his mother. He explains “confessionally” that the film he was trying to make with his collaborator, Ainslie Henderson, failed. It was a film that they were making about her, after she contracted mouth cancer 5 years ago.
He explains the purpose of him talking to her now, in a candid way about it, might just be the final closure his Mum and family need. Why did he invent an imaginary cat called DOM who exists only on his computer and begins to get in the way? Needing to move on, the film they shot and animated will now explain what they were trying to do.
The film plays out from Will’s perspective today, a composition of thoughts, images and scenes - reflecting and editing together a letter to his mother. A self-reflective and self-referential film that blurs the lines between fiction and nonfiction. This video message or ‘letter’ to her is a device that guides the film’s narrative. As if being ‘live edited’ the film has a playful urgency, enabling the viewer to authentically experience the journey with Will and the other characters.
Year of Production: 2022
Duration: 65 min
Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson
Producer: Finlay Pretsell, Will Anderson
Website: https://wanderson.xyz/portfolio/acatcalleddom
Go Go Kosovo! - Dir. Jordan Laird & Jane Stockdale
Feature Documentary
Role: Editor
Rio 2016 was the first time athletes from the newly emergent nation of Kosovo were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. This film captures the behind the scenes struggles, hard graft and grit of the humble Kosovo Olympic Team as they prepare to make history on the world stage. Go Go Kosovo. is about triumphing over adversity and never giving up, no matter what. It's the ultimate underdog story about hope and fighting for what you believe in.
Year of Production: 2021
Duration: 75 min
Director: Jordan Laird & Jane Stockdale
Producer: Claire Spencer, Andy Maas, Ian Greenhill & Ilinka Iljoska
Website: http://www.gogokosovofilm.com/
Screenings:
WORLD PREMIERE – Dokufest 2021
Rio 2016 was the first time athletes from the newly emergent nation of Kosovo were allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. This film captures the behind the scenes struggles, hard graft and grit of the humble Kosovo Olympic Team as they prepare to make history on the world stage. Go Go Kosovo. is about triumphing over adversity and never giving up, no matter what. It's the ultimate underdog story about hope and fighting for what you believe in.
Year of Production: 2021
Duration: 75 min
Director: Jordan Laird & Jane Stockdale
Producer: Claire Spencer, Andy Maas, Ian Greenhill & Ilinka Iljoska
Website: http://www.gogokosovofilm.com/
Screenings:
WORLD PREMIERE – Dokufest 2021
My Name is Anik - Dir. Bircan Birol
Short Documentary
Role: Editor
Watch on Aeon here
Bircan has decided to learn Kurdish, her once-forbidden mother-tongue, with all the words her grandmother has forgotten and all the stories that have remained unspoken.
Year of Production: 2019
Duration: 15 min
Director: Bircan Birol
Producer: Tomas Sheridan
Website: https://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/my-name-is-anik/
Festivals, Awards and Screenings:
WORLD PREMIERE – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019
Close-Up DocuFest 2019 – Best Scottish Production
Inverness Film Festival 2019
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020
MINT Film Festival 2020
London Short Film Festival 2021
ReFrame Film Festival 2021
Watch on Aeon here
Bircan has decided to learn Kurdish, her once-forbidden mother-tongue, with all the words her grandmother has forgotten and all the stories that have remained unspoken.
Year of Production: 2019
Duration: 15 min
Director: Bircan Birol
Producer: Tomas Sheridan
Website: https://www.scottishdocinstitute.com/films/my-name-is-anik/
Festivals, Awards and Screenings:
WORLD PREMIERE – Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019
Close-Up DocuFest 2019 – Best Scottish Production
Inverness Film Festival 2019
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2020
Glasgow Short Film Festival 2020
MINT Film Festival 2020
London Short Film Festival 2021
ReFrame Film Festival 2021
Crannog - Dir. Isa Rao
Short Documentary
Short Documentary
Role: Editor
Watch on Guardian Documentaries here
Alexis has an incurable, life-threatening disease. She spends her time in a small house in the wooded expanse of northern Scotland where she takes care of dozens of others who are also sick, wounded or dying. Some have terminal cancer, some were about to be killed because of their disabilities, some were saved from slaughterhouses. Alexis provides palliative care for animals. Crannog follows Alexis as she tirelessly tries to nurse a neglected sheep back to health. A quiet reflection on kindness in the face of death, the
Year of Production: 2018
Duration: 15 min
Director: Isa Rao
Producer: Tom van den Hurk
Website: https://crannog.weebly.com/
Festivals, Awards and Screenings:
2019 / 2020
The Atlantic Selects
Guardian Online Release (12.07.2019)
Cinema Eye Honors - Nominee in 'Outstanding Achievement in Short Film'
Interfilm Berlin - Winner of 'Best Documentary'
DOKUfest Kosovo (August 2019)
AFI Docs (20/21.06.2019)
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival (08.05.2019)
Wales International Documentary Festival (10.05.2019)
DOXA Documentary Festival Vancouver (11.05.2019)
Aspen Film Shortsfest Colorado (06.04.2019)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham NC (05.04.2019)
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (31.03.2019)
Scottish Doc Heads Edinburgh (21.03.2019)
Glasgow Short Film Festival (16.03.2019)
DC Environmental Film Festival (16.03.2019)
International Film Festival Assen (09.03.2019)
True/False Film Fest (01/03.2018, 02/03.2018, 03/03.2019)
Cinenova Lisbon (21.02.2019) - Winner of 'Best Film'
2018
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Inverness Film Festival
Lush Film Festival
Underwire Film Festival
Doc NYC
Cinetopia Edinburgh
Reel Femme
Watch on Guardian Documentaries here
Alexis has an incurable, life-threatening disease. She spends her time in a small house in the wooded expanse of northern Scotland where she takes care of dozens of others who are also sick, wounded or dying. Some have terminal cancer, some were about to be killed because of their disabilities, some were saved from slaughterhouses. Alexis provides palliative care for animals. Crannog follows Alexis as she tirelessly tries to nurse a neglected sheep back to health. A quiet reflection on kindness in the face of death, the
Year of Production: 2018
Duration: 15 min
Director: Isa Rao
Producer: Tom van den Hurk
Website: https://crannog.weebly.com/
Festivals, Awards and Screenings:
2019 / 2020
The Atlantic Selects
Guardian Online Release (12.07.2019)
Cinema Eye Honors - Nominee in 'Outstanding Achievement in Short Film'
Interfilm Berlin - Winner of 'Best Documentary'
DOKUfest Kosovo (August 2019)
AFI Docs (20/21.06.2019)
Sunderland Shorts Film Festival (08.05.2019)
Wales International Documentary Festival (10.05.2019)
DOXA Documentary Festival Vancouver (11.05.2019)
Aspen Film Shortsfest Colorado (06.04.2019)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Durham NC (05.04.2019)
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival (31.03.2019)
Scottish Doc Heads Edinburgh (21.03.2019)
Glasgow Short Film Festival (16.03.2019)
DC Environmental Film Festival (16.03.2019)
International Film Festival Assen (09.03.2019)
True/False Film Fest (01/03.2018, 02/03.2018, 03/03.2019)
Cinenova Lisbon (21.02.2019) - Winner of 'Best Film'
2018
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Inverness Film Festival
Lush Film Festival
Underwire Film Festival
Doc NYC
Cinetopia Edinburgh
Reel Femme
Time Trial - Dir. Finlay Pretsell
Feature Documentary
Role: Editor (with Dino Jonsäter)
Watch the film online on Amazon, iTunes and Youtube
Check out the trailer here
TIME TRIAL gives us an exhilarating and terrifying place in the race, providing an immersive experience as close to actually competing as you will ever see on film. David Millar, shrouded in darkness, declares an intention to rise again.
A sensory ride through the thrill and hardship of professional cycling. We are hurtled off a hillside, details blurring like watercolours. The euphoria and the fatigue, the highs and the lows. It's as if it were ourselves struggling through the bumpy roads of France. David bluntly and fearlessly narrates his last season in the saddle, intimate and immediate, along with the intricate relationships of cyclist, road crew, fellow competitors, manic fans, and the media circus surrounding it all.
Year of Production: 2017
Duration: 90 min
Director: Finlay Pretsell
Producer: Sonja Henrici (Cycling Films)
Website: https://www.timetrialfilm.com/
Festival Selection:
World premiere at IDFA
Nordic premiere at GÖTEBORG
American premiere at SXSW
Danish premiere at CPH:DOX
2018 Sofia Film Festival
2018 Tempo Documentary Festival
2018 Panama International Film Festival
2018 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
2018 Sports Film Festival Rotterdam
2018 Cleveland International Film Festival
2018 Nyon Film Festival
2018 RiverRun International Film Festival
2018 Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
2018 Beat Film Festival
2018 Edinburgh International Film Festival
Awards and Nominations:
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2017
Nominee IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary
Bend Film Festival 2018
Nominee Best Documentary Feature
British Independent Film Awards 2018
Nominee British Independent Film Award Best Sound Cj Mirra
Cleveland International Film Festival 2018
Nominee Nesnady and Schwartz Documentary Competition Best Documentary
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018
Nominee Best Documentary Feature Film
RiverRun International Film Festival 2018
Winner Jury Prize
Best Editing - Documentary Kieran Gosney & Dino Jonsäter
"With precise and commanding technique, the editors take us on a ride into the middle of a sporting... More
Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2018
Nominee Illuminate Award
Sofia International Film Festival 2018
Nominee Award for Best Documentary
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US 2019
Nominee Cinema Eye Honors Award Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2017
Nominee IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary
Bend Film Festival 2018
Nominee Best Documentary Feature
British Independent Film Awards 2018
Nominee British Independent Film Award Best Sound Cj Mirra
Cleveland International Film Festival 2018
Nominee Nesnady and Schwartz Documentary Competition Best Documentary
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018
Nominee Best Documentary Feature Film
RiverRun International Film Festival 2018
Winner Jury Prize
Best Editing - Documentary Kieran Gosney & Dino Jonsäter
"With precise and commanding technique, the editors take us on a ride into the middle of a sporting... More
Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2018
Nominee Illuminate Award
Sofia International Film Festival 2018
Nominee Award for Best Documentary
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US 2019
Nominee Cinema Eye Honors Award Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
And Violet - Dir. Paul Gray
Feature Drama
Role: Editor
Watch the trailer here
And Violet is a coming of age drama about the interwoven and unravelling lives of a daughter and her two mothers.
When Violet and her adoptive mum Cathy visit a small Scottish town one summer, they unexpectedly run into Violet's estranged birth-mum Zoe. The mothers clash, and Violet struggles to navigate this complicated relationship. Cathy struggles to help her, as she becomes increasingly confused and angry.
Festival Selection:
Official Selection Arizona International Film Festival 2017 (World Premiere)
Official Selection Glendale International Film Festival 2017
Official Selection Orlando Film Festival 2017
Awards and Nominations:
Best Dramatic Feature - Arizona International Film Festival 2017
Special Jury Award for Best Performance - Arizona International Film Festival 2017
Year of Production: 2016
Duration: 100 min
Director: Paul Gray
Producer: Good Well Films
Website: http://www.andviolet.co.uk/