BRAIN SURGEONS:

BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

 

BRAIN SURGEONS: BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH – EP1 & EP2 - BLAST FILMS / CH4 – DIRECTOR: JACK MACINNES

How do our brains make us who we are? This thought-provoking documentary series follows patients undergoing complex life-changing brain surgery at Southampton's Neurological Centre - one of Britain's foremost neurosurgical units, where some of the most difficult and complex operations in the country are performed.

Twelve-year-old Matthew faces a gruelling two-day operation to remove an extremely rare tumour deep in his mid-brain, next to his pineal gland. This is a region key to the functioning of sight, muscles, hearing and sensation. With access to the hospital's team of leading paediatric surgeons, the programme follows the doctors' attempts at a delicate and risky operation, which could save Matthew's life.

Dan and Laura have brain surgery while they're awake. Will they be the same people after the surgery is completed?

NOMINATED: ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY: BEST SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY 2021

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