Stuart is a freelance film editor based in South Africa.

After graduating from film school in 1980, Stuart started work firstly as a runner and quickly moved through the ranks as a sound recordist, assistant camera, actuality insert script writer, and finally developed a love for film editing.

With more than 35 years of editing experience behind him cutting television series, music videos, award winning cinema commercials and documentaries, Stuart is passionate about working on unscripted documentaries.

He has worked as senior editor on numerous series for production companies whose clients included SABC, M-Net, Kyk Net, E-TV and BBC Food. Some of these include:

• Just In Africa – a travel and cooking program featuring Justine Drake (BBC Food),
• 12 Seasons of Living Land (SABC Education), season 12 is in production and is currently being broadcast on SABC2. Living Land is an educational series dealing with all thing’s agriculture. Topics covered include land reform issues, soil conservation, food security, food systems, agricultural innovation and technology, niche crops, amongst many others. The mandate is to inform the youth that agriculture is cool!
• Co-editor on “The Tiger Mafia”, which went to the Sundance Festival in 2016 and is set for release on Amazon Prime in August 2021, reveals the speed breeding and illegal trade of tigers and tiger body parts in South East Asia,
• “Deadly Greed”, co-editor, broadcast on Germanys ZDF public service channel, 3Sat, a documentary which follows the trail of "white gold" through time and space. From the cave dwellers of the Stone Age to elephant hunters in Africa, ivory carvers in China - and on to the harvest of Woolly Mammoth tusks in Russia. While the trade in elephant ivory is banned, the trade in mammoth ivory is legal. Could this be the salvation of Africa’s elephants?
• “Stealing Giants” Asian elephants are on the brink of extinction. In just the last century the Asian elephant population has declined by 50%. Today there are a mere 40 000 elephants left in South East Asia. This documentary investigates why the numbers have plummeted and exposes the shocking mistreatment of elephants in China. Karl Ammann is driven to save these elephants by mobilising governments and conservation bodies to change policy and take action. Status – in production, a rough cut and sizzle reel is being pitched to broadcasters to raise funding for the next edit cycle to finalise the film and distribute.
• A number of conservation themed inserts for SABC’s 50/50, and DSTV’s Carte Blanche.

Stuart uses his experience and deep commitment to the message of each film he works on to polish raw footage into an engaging story. Here he brings his ability as an artist and highly experienced film editor/director to distil narratives that educate and delight the audience.