Britain Recut - 3 Minute Wonders

Anton worked on this innovative Channel 4 series of short films as an editor. Mosaic Films, Channel 4 and the BFI joined forces to launch Britain Recut, a groundbreaking nationwide competition for documentary filmmakers, to mark the BFI’s ‘Documentary Centenaries’ celebrations. For the first time in its history, the BFI has made classic documentary footage available to the public to re-edit into their own short films, as part of an online competition which will see four winning films screened on Channel 4’s 3 Minute Wonder strand.

The footage is taken from a selection of 1940’s and 50’s public information films.

Executive Producer: Andy Glynne
Series Producer: Kerry McLeod
Editor: Anton Califano
Sound recordist: Darko Mocilnikar
Sound editor: Fabrice Pougnard

Broadcast dates on Channel 4 in the UK 6th May-8th May 2008 7.55pm:

Anyway, Who Are You? (Dir. Meghan Horvath)
Two refugees, fifty years apart, share their oddly similar experience of arriving in London.
A Welcome Return (Dir. Barry J Gibb)
If the great British public can’t watch their own weight, then perhaps it’s time to bring back rationing?
Women Only (Dir. Valeria Coizza)
A group of women compare their freedoms – and their constraints – with those of their grandmothers.
How We Have Fun (Dir. Barnaby Lankester-Owen)
Barnaby Lankester-Owen wants to find out about how people used to have fun. A conversation with his 91 year-old Grandpa William leads to some interesting surprises.