
Sarah louise Bates
film & tv Editor

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broadcast & features
Sarah has recently finished work on I Fought The Law for Hera Pictures / ITV (Dir Erik Richter Strand).
Other tv credits include Insomnia for Left Bank Pictures / Paramount+ (Dir Börkur Sigþórsson), The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies for Sister Pictures / BBC (Dir Nicole Charles), and Conversations With Friends for Element Pictures / BBC / Hulu (Dir Leanne Welham).
In 2018 Sarah cut feature film Connect with Director Marilyn Edmond, which premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in 2019, before being shown in cinemas across the UK.
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short films
Sarah's last short with director Natalie Malla Mairi was a finalist in the best editing category at the Chatham-Kent International Film Festival. It will also be included in Angaelica Film Festival, and the Barcelona International Film and Video festival, 2020.
In 2017, Sarah cut The Lost Films of Bloody Nora (Dir Sophia Di Martino) which was screened at LFF, LSFF and Underwire in 2018, and won the award for 'Best UK Short' at Berlin Independent Film Festival 2019.
In 2018 Jean (Dir Jim Hampton) was nominated for best editing at the Birmingham Film Festival.
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other
Sarah has been working in post production for the last 17 years, beginning as a runner at post house Sumners in Manchester. After moving to London in 2010 she worked as an assistant editor and then an assembly editor on shows such as Luther, Flowers and The Tunnel, regularly working with production companies Kudos, Sister Pictures and Tiger Aspect, amongst others.