AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL

AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL – SWAN FILMS / BBC3 – DIRECTOR: MARCUS PLOWRIGHT

1 x 60 Filmed over the course of a year at a High School in South Carolina, this landmark six-part series for BBC3 follows a charismatic principal and his students, including star football players, Ivy League hopefuls, male cheerleaders and young mothers as they prepare for the next step in life.

WINNER: BROADCAST DIGITAL AWARDS: BEST DOCUMENTARY 2017
SHORTLISTED: BROADCAST AWARDS: BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES 2017

I have always loved to cut and will always love to cut… so much so that I have dedicated over 30 years to honing the craft of editing.

During this time I have won an Emmy award, a Grierson British documentary award, an RTS award, a Broadcast award and recently a Critics Choice award.

I have also cut 2 x BAFTAs nominated documentaries, an RTS nominated documentary series and 8 Grierson nominated films across 5 different categories.

I edit imaginative, forward thinking films to critical acclaim and have been acknowledged for my work with channels such as Netflix, Apple TV, Disney+, Sky Documentaries, BBC, Channel 4 and ITV.

To take something that pre exists, carefully carve it up, reshape it and create something totally new and unique, sends my imagination into overdrive…

“Once you unleash a film out of it’s trap, it should have an unstoppable gravitational force to it.”

The Cutter