Editors Kate Miller and Dan Noall discuss editing trailers, and their role within the promotional campaigns for films, TV shows, and curated cinema programmes. They cover craft and career, from choosing and creating music, how to avoid spoilers, getting the right tone, and managing the client relationship.
Trailers referred to:
Turn Me On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGI5_CLL_kU
Going Varsity in Mariachi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwONHANRjd0
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and The Apartment trailers: https://www.fadeoutfilms.com/
Kate Miller is a Central Saint Martins Alumni with a degree in Fine Art. She works for both independent film makers and produces works in-house for clients such as Disney, HBO, BFI and Netflix.
Dan Noall is a trailer editor based in London, and has worked on campaigns for Curzon, BFI, Dogwoof, Park Circus and Picturehouse, among others. Recent re-release and film season trailers include Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and the accompanying Chantal Akerman season at BFI Southbank. In 2024 he set up Fade Out, a boutique trailer agency specialising in independent, art-house and classic film.
Recorded on 17th December at The Garden Cinema
Alps was Yorgos Lanthimos’ last Greek-language feature, which solidified his reputation as an auteur with a unique, absurdist vision, for which he is now globally known. Dr Tonia Kazakopoulou and Dr Eddie Falvey, and season curator Erifili Missiou dive into Lanthimos’ work and the development of Greek cinema since the turn of the century.
Recorded on 16th February 2025 at The Garden Cinema
The Fashion Film Club in collaboration with Doc’n Roll Film Festival hosted a screening of Pauline Black: A 2 Tone Story, followed by a Q&A with Pauline and director Jane Mingay. Hosted by Sarah Bailey.
Recorded on 10th February 2025 at The Garden Cinema
Filmmaker Marie Nyreröd discusses the life of Ingmar Bergman after a screening of Bergman and the Cinema, and Bergman and Fårö Island. Hosted by Anthony Wall.
This event is part of our partnership with Arena, BBC’s long-running arts documentary strand.
Recorded on 9th February 2025 at The Garden Cinema
Part of Visions in Ruins: British Cinema 1970 – 1980.
A conversation with writer Edward Platt (author of Leadville, a history of the A40) about Leo the Last and the social history of its locations, a subject explored in his new limited-edition publication: As Kingfishers Catch Fire (pub. Texte und Töne, NYC).
Recorded on 16th January 2025 at The Garden Cinema 39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Geographically unique and with a history of political turbulence, Greece is anything but predictable. This season presents Greek cinema from the 2000s, a period of severe financial crisis and lack of state funding.
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Info and tickets: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/sea…
Writer and editor Laura Staab, Yaya Azariah Clarke and film scholar Giulia Rho discuss the revolutionary film movement that emerged from the UCLA Film School in the early 1970s, the so-called ‘L.A. Rebellion’ which was a powerful and transformative chapter in the history of American cinema. A significant cultural and artistic response to the turbulent sociopolitical climate of the time, the films challenged prevailing norms of Black representation, forging a new African American cinematic language.
This programme of shorts brought together short films by three ‘insurgent sisters’ of the LA Rebellion: Illusions (1982), an early short by Julie Dash (who would go on to make the acclaimed feature Daughters of the Dust); Cycles (1989) by Zeinabu irene Davis; and A Different Image (1982) by Alile Sharon Larkin. Offering a specifically ‘womanist’ sensibility, these films resist the images of Black womenhood produced by Hollywood and independent film of the time, reclaiming Black female subjectivity through poetic and playful cinematic reconstructions of time, space and the body.
As part of our season Trailblazers: Women in New Hollywood, curated by Dr Alice Pember
Recorded on 1st December at The Garden Cinema
Screenwriter-directors Daniel Kokotajlo (Starve Acre, Apostasy) and Luna Carmoon (Hoard) discuss their approaches to filmmaking, hosted by Abla Kandalaft.
Daniel Kokotajlo’s latest film Starve Acre is a psychological horror starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark for BBC Films and House Productions. His first feature Apostasy — about a young mother’s struggle to leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses — was nominated for a string of awards (6 BIFAS, and a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut Film 2019), and won the London Film Festival IWC Bursary for Outstanding First Feature in 2019. Apostasy was made on the micro-budget scheme for IFeatures, and was subsequently released by Artificial Eye — where it went on to gross $500,000 at the UK box office — and was bought by Amazon for the US. Daniel is developing a few original feature projects in the UK. He has been selected as both a Screen Star of Tomorrow and by BAFTA as a Breakthrough Brit.
Luna Carmoon is a self-taught writer/director from South East London. An original, provocative voice, her writing conjures oddness out of the familiar, and is inspired by 60’s and 70’s British cinema. Her feature debut Hoard was released this year and screened at the Garden Cinema. That, along with her short films Nosebleed (2018) and Shagband (2020), are currently streaming on MUBI.
Industry panels followed by networking in our bar is one of the benefits of Garden Cinema membership.
Recorded on 12th December at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ