RISING TALENT 2023 - EDITORS

EDITORS

So impressed are we with the industry’s up-and-comers, we have decided to make our Rising Talent list an annual fixture. These are the people we think the industry needs to sit up and take notice of; the names you’ll need to know and want to work with in the years ahead. Some faces are relatively new, while others have recently moved up the chain into leadership positions where they are making change.

Thank you again to everyone who helped us put this list together, including the hundreds of submissions we received through our public call out. We know this list is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the talent in this industry, but we hope it hints towards its future.

LILY DAVIS

Lily Davis is a Sydney-based editor at The Editors. In 2020, she co-edited her first feature documentary Run, which earned her a nomination for Best Editing in a Feature Documentary at the Australian Screen Editors Ellie Awards. Davis also co-edited the feature documentary Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow, which was selected for both the Melbourne International Film Festival and Sydney Film Festival.

In 2021, Davis won an Ellie Award for Best Editing in Corporate and Branded for her work on the ANZ campaign We Do How

Most recently, Davis edited It’s Fine, I’m Fine, the only Australian production in competition at CanneSeries, and SBS Digital Original A Beginner’s Guide To Grief, which won the 2022 AACTA Award for Best Digital Series.

Davis serves on the ASE’s executive committee.

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DANIEL OATES

Beginning his career as an assistant editor in kids TV, Daniel Oates was given his first opportunity to edit for broadcast TV on the ABC ME program This is Me in 2016.

In the years since he has honed his skills working across both children’s scripted drama and documentaries, including Random and Whacky, The Gamers 2037 and Miss Represented In 2022, he was editor of NITV’s Barrumbi Kids and the AACTA-nominated ABC docuseries, Muster Dogs.

Oates says he’s happiest simply when telling stories; finding threads and connecting moments to help build narratives that engage and emote.

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MICHELLE MCGILVRAY

Michelle McGilvray, based in Brisbane, has recently cut First Weapons, a six-part series for Blackfella Films/ABC, and animated feature film Scarygirl for Cosmic Dino.

Her other credits as editor include animated features Daisy Quokka and Combat Wombat, as well as factual series Gem Hunters Down Under, Aussie Mega Mechanics, three series of Demolition: Down Under, The Ex Files and Am I Perfect?.

In 2019, McGilvray won the Australian Screen Editors Ellie Award for Best Editing in a Short Drama for Reverse.

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RISHI SHUKLA

Rishi Shukla grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, raised on a diet of Bollywood, Hollywood and world cinema, and making home movies on Super 8 and VHS.

After gaining acceptance into North Sydney TAFE for Film and Television Production, Shukla got got his first break as an assistant editor at the ABC, working on a variety of documentary and drama projects. He would then go on to study at AFTRS, and after graduating, moved further into scripted storytelling. His first feature was Moon Rock for Monday, winner of the 2020 Fipresci Jury Prize at the Schlingel International Film Festival.

In 2022, Shukla won the Australian Screen Editors Ellie Award for Best Editing in Short Drama for Stonefish, which was also nominated for an AACTA. His other credits include Bill Bennett’s documentaries Facing Fear and PGS: Intuition is Your Personal Guidance System.

As an assistant editor, Shukla has worked on an extensive number of projects, such as Carmen, Blaze, Go Karts, Cargo and Breath. Shukla is about to commence editing Bill Bennett’s Walk the Walk.

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ISAAC COEN LINDSAY

A Ngarrindjeri man originally from the Coorong, Isaac Coen Lindsay now hails from Berri in South Australia’s Riverland. With a passion for cinema growing up, Lindsay’s start in the industry came in 2013, when he attended a workshop at Port Augusta ABC Radio and made his first short, PostCard from the Edge. That led to him being part of the South Australian Film Corporation’s “micro docs” initiative in 2015, and an attachment to the electrics department on Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country

In 2018, Lindsay, wrote and directed his first funded short, Konya, starring Natasha Wanganeen and the late Ningali Lawford Wolf, which premiered at Adelaide Film Festival in 2018.

His editing work on the Kaurna Welcome to Country for the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival led to his first feature film as editor, Rolf de Heer’s The Survival of Kindness, in competition this year at Berlinale.

Lindsay is currently working on his own feature project, Bloodland, which he is writing, and which he intends to direct and edit.

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