Joe Marcus ISE / BFE
Joe is a highly creative editor. With over thirty-five years of experience in film, television and music he has cut everything from promos, concerts and TV dramas, to documentaries and feature films and has worked with Oscar winning and nominated directors. Combining a strong sense of narrative with an ability to pull sync quickly, Joe can craft a film under tough conditions. Working mainly on Network commissions, Joe is used to juggling tight deadlines and constant revisions, whilst focusing on the prime objective, to deliver a world class programme for the producer and the audience. Joe is phenomenally fast, having spent years cutting news and current affairs.
With a highly impressive musical background, Joe can quickly choose, sync and edit music. Having also written, produced and directed documentaries for the BBC, as well as corporates for the likes of Dell and Apple, he brings years of scriptwriting to the edit. At his own facility, Joe also on-lines, mixes, grades, masters and delivers programmes to broadcasters across the UK and Ireland and so also brings a wealth of technical know-how to every project. With efficiency and calm in equal measure, Joe never fails to impress.
More work by Joe
Panorama: White Fright – Divided Britain
Panorama: Britain’s Biggest Diamond Heist – The Inside Story
Headrush
Is this Rape? Sex On Trial
Portillo’s State Secrets
Showreel
Panorama: Inside Europe’s Terror Networks
Traffic Blues – RTE
Panorama: Trump, What Next?
Panorama: White Fright – Divided Britain
Current affairs programme. Blackburn is a town divided – some parts are almost entirely Muslim Asian, while other parts are only lived in by white residents. This kind of social segregation has been described as a national crisis, despite decades of government policy aimed at bringing people together. So why do such divisions persist? Panorama visits Blackburn to answer that question and illustrate the impact of social segregation on local communities.
Panorama: Britain’s Biggest Diamond Heist – The Inside Story
Current affairs programme. Investigating the Hatton Garden safety deposit vault robbery. Joe shared the offline on this fast turnaround edit.
Headrush
85 min HD feature film. Drug fuelled black comedy caper, starring Stephen Burkoff. Two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignement of drugs for a local gangster. Set in present day Dublin.
Winner of multiple international festival awards.
Is this Rape? Sex On Trial
This 60 minute documentary explores the issue of consent within teenage sexual relations.
Shown on BBC Three and BBC NI.
Portillo’s State Secrets
3 x 30 mins. This documentary series follows Michael Portillo, as he discovers state secrets revealed in recently released cabinet papers. Shown on BBC Two.
Showreel
Panorama: Inside Europe’s Terror Networks
In this current affairs documentary, Peter Taylor investigates how ISIS set up and ran the terror networks behind the Paris and Brussels attacks. Shown on BBC One.
Traffic Blues – RTE
Series 2 of this factual format, shown on RTE 1. Follow the Garda Traffic Officers as they respond to road crime incidents around Ireland. With exclusive access, we see frightening road behaviour – from high speed chases to drunk driving. Joe wrote and edited all 6 x 30 min episodes.
Panorama: Trump, What Next?
30 min current affairs documentary. On the eve of the midterm elections, can President Trump survive calls for his impeachment? Shown on BBC One and BBC World, including the USA.