Meerkat Love

Trim's had a long time love bond with the wonderful director, Darren Walsh of Passion Pictures. And our love child is Aleksandr Orlov, the weirdly charming, insurance-advertising Russian Meerkat (seriously who doesn't like him?!)

We love the Meerkat so much that three whole eager Trimmers Paul Hardcastle, Ross Hallard and Gus Herdman, were on board to cut a collection of lovely spots of Aleksandr Orlov handing out cute Meerkat toys to perplexed insurance purchasers - simples.




Director:Darren Walsh
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: VCCP
Creatives: Javier Romartinez, Stephen Misir
Editor: Paul Hardcastle




Director:Darren Walsh
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: VCCP
Creatives: Javier Romartinez, Stephen Misir
Editor: Ross Hallard




Director:Darren Walsh
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: VCCP
Creatives: Javier Romartinez, Stephen Misir
Editor: Gus Herdman

One Shot Wonders

An Editors dream job, some might say. A 'cut with no cut' a 'ride with no bumps' a 'baby that doesn't scream' and ' 'a boozy night with no hangover', ok maybe not quite, but you get my drift. Here's a collection of delightful one shot wonders from the past year, cut by Tom, Dominic and Paul with our lovely directors Adam Berg, Arno Salters, Kim Gehrig and Tim Hope.

We like these jobs, give us more.



If 'Pool'
Director: Adam Berg
Production Company: Camp David
Producer: Rickard Edholm
Agency: Forsman and Bodenfors
DP: Linus Sandgren
Editor: Tom Lindsay




If 'Toy'
Director: Adam Berg
Production Company: Camp David
Producer: Rickard Edholm
Agency: Forsman and Bodenfors
DP: Linus Sandgren
Editor: Tom Lindsay




Ebay 'My One For All'
Director: Arno Salters
Production Company: Stink
Producer: Swantje Rummel
DP: Olivier Cariou
Editor: Dominic Leung




New Look '100 Days of Summer'
Director: Kim Gehrig
Production Company: Somesuch & Co
Producer: Tania Kane
Agency: Mother
Editor: Dominic Leung



Mercedes 'Passing Through'
Director: Adam Berg
Production Company: Smuggler
Producer: Cory Berg
Agency: Merkley and Partners
DP: Max Malkin
Editor: Paul Hardcastle




Comcast 'Moving Rooms'
Director: Tim Hope
Production Company: Passion Pictures
Producer: Russel McLean
Agency: The Martin Agency
DP: Dan Landin
Post: MPC
Editor: Paul Hardcastle

Icelandic Skillz

Earlier this year we showed you the trailer for Borkur Sigthorsson's gripping short thriller 'Come To Harm' edited by Tom Lindsay and Ross Hallard. Now the film is swirling the international festivals and causing a storm, already picking up best Short Film at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (hooray!).

Next up is a rendezvous at the Encounters Festival in Bristol (Nov 16-20), so if you live round there you'd be stupid not to go watch it! We love you Borkur and your coffee-nazi ways!

Move The Crowd

We love having Partizan director, Chris Cairns at Trim HQ. We're positive he's an actual-certified genius-brainiac, but more importantly we know he's an all-round good-egg. He's been here so much recently that we actually set up a desk for him, and we're still holding a couple of pairs of Converse in reserve too...

He's been here working on a triple-treat of projects with Ross (& Gus), some of which are still so secret, that if we showed you them we'd have to kill you.

Here is the first dance-tastic spot for Swatch. It's a chromatic frenzy pulled off with Chris' trademark technical panache, with effortless post, courtesy of our relentlessly superb friends, Time Based Arts.



Dir: Chris Cairns
Producer: Russell Curtis
Production Manager: Bonnie Anthony
Prod Co : Partizan
Post: Time Based Arts
Music: Trentemøller
Editor: Ross Hallard

Our Friend

Our buddies The Vikings have recently joined the new hot production kids on the block; Friend. They're an eclectic and inspiring mix of directors and have a great website at friendlondon.tv. It's all very, very friendly.

CONGRATULATIONS TOM!!

Big love to Tom Lindsay who scooped up best editor at last nights MVA's! It was his brilliant Tom Vek 'Aroused' video directed by Saam Farahmand that bagged it. This is the second time he's been voted best editor this year, which makes him the official king of the cut!!!

Daniel Wolfe's legendary Blind Faith video, edited by Dominic Leung won Best Dance Video, and Best Styling! And for a second year running SomeSuch&Co's Tim Francis won Best Producer! Woop Woop!

The Kills 'Baby Says'

Ross' latest offering is a collaboration with the multi-disciplined director Ben Crook, of Skin Flicks. And boy, is this a "Skinflick"...

This music film for super-cool two-piece The Kills, is a character study shot in Barcelona in a verité style, using non-professional actors. Our "Baby" is a 6' 2" semi-professional Brazilian volleyball player and transvestite, who becomes nearly 7" with his heels on.

We love the track, the film, the incredible high-heeled backflip and the edit. Hope you do too. Nice work, Ben & Ross.






Director: Ben Crook
Production Company: Skin Flicks
Producer: Chris Massey
DoP: Stuart Bentley
Colorist: Simona Harrison @ Prime Focus
Commissioner: Fiona Ghobrial
Editor: Ross Hallard @ Trim