Gideon Gold
Gideon’s collaborations have been hugely successful in the UK and across America, with credits on international prime time television networks BBC, HBO, ESPN, SHOWTIME, PBS, ABC and on cinematic release. Many of these films have received multiple prestigious awards, including a win at Sundance, three Emmy nominations, a Grierson nomination and entry onto the 2016 Oscar shortlist.
He draws his editing skills from past experiences deeply embedded in the art, music and photography worlds. This is demonstrated in the way in which he intuitively delivers rhythmic, original and cinematic narratives, known for their dynamic empathy and often witty and humane style.
His versatility as an experienced editor allows him to work quickly with both fiction and documentary in feature film and television formats. He is equally agile in cutting corporate, commercial, title sequences and film trailer work.
Having been the resident DJ at Rob da Bank’s infamous Sunday Best club, he has an expansive knowledge of eclectic music, which serves him well for temp music and innovative sound design editing for all genres of film, and especially for music documentaries.
Gideon has also enjoyed working as a consultant on a number of films, providing detailed notes, edits, restructuring and reinvention of short and feature length films.
Sonny Rollins – BBC
A clip from ‘Sonny Rollins: Beyond The Notes’, which Gideon Gold edited for BBC Arena.
Sonny Rollins is the only remaining jazz legend who played with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and John Coltrane in the Golden Age of Jazz. Nominated for a Grierson Award in the UK, Beyond the Notes celebrates this master who still plays to sold-out concerts worldwide. Rollins has received a myriad of awards for excellence around the world, culminating in the Kennedy Centre Performing Arts Award he received from President Obama in 2011. Built around Rollins‘ self-produced 80th birthday concert, this film documents the Saxophone Colossus’ career in terms of the artistic quest for perfection.
Fontaine allows the music to breathe as he guides us through Rollins‘ meditation on the parallel journeys of his music and his life.
With: Ornette Coleman, Roy Haynes, Jim Hall, Roy Hargrove, Christian McBride, Courtney Pine, JD Allen, Sammy Figueroa, Bobab Cranshaw, Soweto Kinch, and Stanley Crouch.