Biography

Fiona Brands is an award-winning editor based in London. Originally from Germany, she now lives in England where she completed a Master's degree in Editing at The National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield.

She was selected for Berlinale Talents at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival 2018 and is a member of BAFTA Crew 2019/20 in London.

She's been awarded with the "Filmstiftung NRW Award - Best Newcomer Editing" at the 26th German Camera Award 2016 for her work on "The Ballad of Ella Plummhoff" (Dir: Barbara Kronenberg P: KHM Kunsthochschule fuer Medien Koeln).

Her NFTS graduation film "Wild Horses" (Dir: Rory Stewart) premiered at the 70th Festival de Cannes 2017 in competition in the Cinéfondation Selection, was selected for Edinburgh Film Festival, Encounters, Aesthetica and Raindance 2017 and has won the postgraduate drama award at the 23rd Royal Television Society awards 2018.

Starting her career as an editor in Cologne she finished her bachelor's degree in Editing Picture and Sound at the ifs international filmschule koeln in 2012.

From 2010-2015 she worked as a freelance editor and assistant editor in Cologne on numerous feature films, TV films and shows.

The first feature she edited in 2013 "My Brothers Keeper" (88' Dir: Maximilian Leo P: Augenschein Filmproduktion) was nominated at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival 2014 in the category Perspektive Deutsches Kino (Prospect German Cinema) and for Best First Feature.

The most recent feature she edited, "Granada Nights" (Dir. Abid Khan) was selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival Works in Progress 2019, won Best Feature Film at Barnes Film Festival 2020 and had it's UK release in 2021.

Recent TV shows she's edited include the final episodes of "The Rising", a mystery-sci-fi show for Sky, directed by Carl Tibbetts. The show was officially selected at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival 2022 in the Berlinale Series section, the festival programme dedicated to exceptional serial narratives celebrating their international premiere in Berlin. She has also just finished editing "Ten Pound Poms", a TV drama for BBC One and Eleven Film production about English immigrant to Australia in the 50s. The director is Ana Kokkinos.

Currently she is working on "Layla", (Dir: Amrou Al-Kadhi) a feature film backed by Film4 and BFI and produced by Savannah James-Bayly. Nina Yang Bongiovi via Significant Films, Farhana Bhula for FIlm4 and Kristin Irving for BFI are executive producers.
- IMDb mini biography by: Fiona Brands