Paul
Carlin
Paul Carlin
Paul has been editing documentary and drama for television and cinema for over twenty years.
Paul won an RTS Award in 2018 for Best Editing with his C&KE partner Kevin Konak for the BBC TV series The Detectives: Murder on the Streets, broadcast in 2017.
Paul has had three previous nominations for the RTS Awards for editing. His drama credits include: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, directed by Mike Hodges, and In the Dark Half, directed by Alastair Siddons.
AMPAS Member
Film Editors Branch
Since 2024
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018)
Director: Lorna Tucker | Passion Pictures
2018 Serendipity
82min Feature Documentary
Director, Prune Nourry,
Producers: Alastair Siddons, Sol Guy
Prune Nourry Studios
Official selection Berlin Film Festival 2019
2017 Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
85min Feature Documentary
Director, Lorna Tucker
Producers: Eleanor Emptage, John Battsek, Nicole Stott
Passion Pictures
Official selection Sundance Film Festival 2018
2017 The Detectives: Murder on the streets
Edited with Kevin Konak and Paul Dosaj
4 x 60 min Documentary series
Directors: Dan Vernon, Louise Malkinson
Producers: Colin Barr, Ruth Kelly
Minnow Films
Winner RTS award 2018 for best editing
2016 The Cult Next Door
60min Documentary
Director Vanessa Engels
Producer Claire Patterson
BBC STUDIOS
2016 The Last Whites of the East End
60 min Documentary
Director Kelly Close
Producer Emma Wakefield
Lambent Productions
2015 The Traffickers
50min documentary
Director Nick Read
Producers Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn
Lightbox films
2015 Being AP
edited with Kevin Konak
93 min feature documentary
Director Anthony Wonke
Producers Nick Ryle, John Woolcombe
BBC Films, Partizan
Official Selection Toronto film Festival
2015 My Scientology Movie
102 min feature documentary
Director John Dower
Producer Simon Chinn, Joe Oppenheimer, Charlotte Moore
BBC Films red box films
Official Selection London film Festival
Best Film, NME awards 2016
2014 Every Last Child
92 min feature documentary
Director Tom Roberts
Producers Anna Melin
Image Nation
2013 The Legend of Shorty
85 min feature documentary
Directors Angus Macqueen, Guillermo Galdos
Producers Andrew Mackenzie Simon Chinn
Film 4, BFI, frontline films, red box films
2013 Garnets Gold
78 min feature documentary
Director Ed Perkins
Producer Simon Chinn
BBC Storyville, Passion Pictures, red box films,
Best International film, Docville Fest
2012/13 Alfred and Jackobine
87 min feature documentary
Director Jonathan Howells
Producers Tom Roberts Rob Flecher
Film Agency for Wales, BBC Storyville
2012 Notes from the inside
one hour documentary
Director Ursula Macfarlane
Producers Jeremy lee Tabitha Jackson
Freshone,productions C4
2012 24 hours in A+E
Two one hour documentaries
Director Jo Abel
Producer Nick Curwin
The Garden, C4
2012 Out of jail and on the streets
One hour documentary
Director Ben Rumney
Producers Simon Ford, Emma Wakefield
Lambent productions, BBC1
2011 Darcy Bussell Dances Hollywood
90 min Christmas special
Director Michael Waldman
Producer Ed Coulthard
Blast! Films BBC2
2011 Fighting on the Frontline – Choppers
one hour documentary
Director Ruth Kelly
Producers Simon Ford Morgan Matthews
Minnow Films, C4
Nominated for best documentary series, RTS awards
2011 Adopting Abroad, Saira’s story
Two one hour documentaries
Director Pamella Gordon
Producers, Ninder Billing, Charlotte Moore
BBC2
2010 Calvet
92min feature documentary
Director Dominic Allen
Producer Dominic Allen
Firewalk Films
Selected for the Jury prize, Sheffield Doc Festival 2011
Selected for the Edinburgh Film Festival 2011
2010 The War on Drugs/Afghanistan
One hour documentary
Directors Angus Macqueen, Monica Garnsey
Ronachan Films, C4
Nominated for best Doc series, Broadcast awards 2011
2010 Leaving home at Eight
One hour documentary
C4, Cutting Edge
Director Charlie Russel
Pod. Co. North one television
2009 An Iranian Martyr
One hour documentary
bbc2, WGBH
Director Monica Garnsey
Pod. Co. Ronachan Films
Winner, current affairs emmy awards 2010
Nominated for best news Doc, Broadcast awards 2011
2009 Orphans of the Storm
One hour documentary
Dispatches CH4
Director Jeremy Williams
Pod. Co. Quicksilver Media
2009 The Hospital – Episode1: A+E
One hour documentary
Director Jessica Verslys
Pod. Co. North One Television for CH4
Nominated for best editing, RTS awards 2009
2009 The 7th Cav
90 min Feature Documentary
Director Tom Roberts
Prod co. BBC Storyville, October Films
2008 Turn it Loose
93 min Feature Documentary
Director Alistair Siddons
Prod co. Partizan Films. Mk2
Selected for the Edinburgh Film Festival 2009
2008 Nauru
90 min Feature Documentary
Director Juliano Salgado
Prod co. Film Oblige, Circle Bleu, Arte
2006 The Insurgency
One hour documentary
bbc2, WGBH
Director Tom Roberts
Pod. Co. October Films
2005 Summer with the Johnsons
One hour documentary
BBC3
Director Finn McGough
Pod. Co. RAW television
2004 Inside the mind of a suicide bomber
One hour documentary
Director Tom Roberts
Pod. Co. October Films
Nominated for Grierson award 2004
2003 The Ghosts of Rwanda
115 min Feature Documentary
Director Greg Barker
Prod co. Silverbridge/WGBH
Winner Peabody award/Nominated for Emmy Award 2005
2001 Murder by Numbers
50 min. Doc
Independent Film channel
Directors Mike Hodges – Paul Carlin
Prod Co. Minerva Picture Company
2000 American Nightmare
85 min Feature Documentary
Independent film channel
Director Adam Simon
Prod. Co. Minerva Picture Company
Selected for the London Film Festival 2001
2000 Salgado’s Spectre of Hope
50 min. Doc with Sebastiao Salgado and John Berger
co-production HBO +BBC Arena
Director/Editor Paul Carlin
Prod. Co. Minerva Picture Company
Selected for the Montreal Festival of Film 2001
1999 Staying Lost
Four part observational series
Directors Tom Roberts – Paul Carlin – Pamela Gordon
Prod. Co. October Films – Channel 4
Winner of the BBC Indie award for best factual film Nominated for RTS award for best editing 2000
1997 The Death Train
90 min documentary
Director Tom Roberts
Prod. Co. October Films/Ch4
Winner Golden Hugo Award for Best Documentary
1997 Prommers
one hour documentary
Director Helen Richards
Prod. Co. October Films
1995 Baby its You
3 40 min films
Directors David Hickman/Leanne Klein
Prod.Co. Wall To Wall
CH4 – Discovery, USA
Emmy Award for best doc. Series
1994 Visions of Heaven and Hell
Two one hour films –
Directors Mark Harrison/Leanne Klein
Pod. Co. Barraclough Carey/Ch4
Nominated for Best editing; RTS awards 1995
Fiction:
2011 In The Dark Half
BBC Films/ Bard entertainments/ iFeatures
Cast: Tony Curran / Lyndsey Marshall/ Jessica Bardem
Director: Alastair Siddons
2007 White Lilacs
Thema Production
Cast: Evgeni Tsyganov / Victoria Tolstoganova
Director: Pavel Loungin
2006 In Tranzit
Thema Production
Cast: John Malkovich / Vera Farmiga
Director Tom Roberts
2003 I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
Paramount Classics
Cast: Clive Owen / Charlotte Rampling
Director Mike Hodges
1993 Dust Devil (directors Cut)
Miramax/Palace Films
Cast: Robert Burke / Chelsea Field
Director Richard Stanley