Nick Lear - Film Editor

Nick Lear is a senior film and video editor with 15 years in post production. He holds two prestigious D&AD pencils and has broadcast credits for Sky One, Discovery+, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 & CNN. He has worked with brands such as Sony, Red Bull, Pantene, Mastercard, Johnnie Walker, Hi-Tec & Nokia and a number of his edits have had over 1 million views online.

He won the Antville Music Video editor of the year & had his work shown at Cannes, IFF Boston, Buffer Toronto, the London Short Film Festival and Slamdance.

He has had beside him in the edit suite Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, Georgi Banks-Davies, Steve Oram, Alice Lowe, Louis Cole and Francis Annan.

He also founded and oversees a social enterprise in Cape Town called Manenberg Films (https://manenbergfilms.com/) with the aim of telling authentic stories and providing training and livelihoods for young people from disadvantaged communities.