Saltmarsh
A feature documentary about one summer in a shrinking coastal town, edited and graded over fourteen weeks.
Clip info
Client
Wide Sky Films
Kind
Documentary
Runtime
48:20
Delivered as
DCP · 2048 × 858 · 24
Look
Grey tide
Year
2025
After it went out
3
festival selections
in its first season, with a broadcast sale after
How it was made
Four months on the coast
The brief
Wide Sky Films came to me with ninety-six hours of footage from one summer in a coastal town that loses a few feet of shore every year, and a director who wanted the film to feel like waiting for weather.
The edit
We cut for fourteen weeks. The assembly ran almost four hours; the version that locked is 48 minutes and keeps the long holds the director cared about. I graded it myself, cool and low in contrast, so the sky does the work.
What happened
Saltmarsh was selected for three festivals in its first season and was sold to a public broadcaster the following spring.
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