Tobias Zaldua
- Editor
- Composer
- Director
Tobias Zaldua is an English editor. His particular interests are with music documentary and drama, and in finding the emotional resonance in a variety of material from hand-held concert footage to high-end studio work.
Following a Foundation course in Art he went on to take a degree in Graphic Design, where he decided to specialize in film and animation. His first chance to cut a film and compose a score came when Tobias was approached by writer/director Mark Cairns who was working on a live action/model animation graduation piece and needed an editor and a composer for his degree film "Upon The Land".
After graduating Tobias went to London where he edited and co-wrote The Take Out (1994) with 'Jamie Thraves' as part of the BFI new Directors scheme before moving into music promo work. He quickly built up a reputation for getting the best from the material, leaving nothing wasted. Equally at home with the frantic energy of Spiritualized "Electricity" promo built from 20 hours of hypnotic tour material or with the mixture of heightened realism and artifice used in "Torn" for Natalie Imbruglia, he soon built up around 200 music video credits.
At the end of 2004 Tobias was offered the chance to work on a film with Julien Temple having previously worked with the director on a Greenpeace commercial. The film was Glastonbury (2006) and involved editing a staggering 1500 hours of material both from festival goers private collections on a variety of archaic video and film formats as well as original footage specifically shot for the production.
This was quickly followed by Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007) a film in which he was both involved in designing and editing the film's many music sequences and then brought in again to work on the full re-cut of the documentary after an editor left. The most recent cinema release was the highly acclaimed "Made of Stone" for Shane Meadows.
Following a Foundation course in Art he went on to take a degree in Graphic Design, where he decided to specialize in film and animation. His first chance to cut a film and compose a score came when Tobias was approached by writer/director Mark Cairns who was working on a live action/model animation graduation piece and needed an editor and a composer for his degree film "Upon The Land".
After graduating Tobias went to London where he edited and co-wrote The Take Out (1994) with 'Jamie Thraves' as part of the BFI new Directors scheme before moving into music promo work. He quickly built up a reputation for getting the best from the material, leaving nothing wasted. Equally at home with the frantic energy of Spiritualized "Electricity" promo built from 20 hours of hypnotic tour material or with the mixture of heightened realism and artifice used in "Torn" for Natalie Imbruglia, he soon built up around 200 music video credits.
At the end of 2004 Tobias was offered the chance to work on a film with Julien Temple having previously worked with the director on a Greenpeace commercial. The film was Glastonbury (2006) and involved editing a staggering 1500 hours of material both from festival goers private collections on a variety of archaic video and film formats as well as original footage specifically shot for the production.
This was quickly followed by Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007) a film in which he was both involved in designing and editing the film's many music sequences and then brought in again to work on the full re-cut of the documentary after an editor left. The most recent cinema release was the highly acclaimed "Made of Stone" for Shane Meadows.
