Merlin Eden | Commercial Directors Reel
2023
For two decades Merlin Eden has worked as an award winning editor, designer, director and visual effects supervisor. In recognition of this, he has received the 2004 Young Filmmaker of the Year award, been nominated for four AACTA (AFI) awards for his editing work, including ‘Stump’, ‘jack’ and ‘The Turning’, and has won St Kilda Film Festival awards in editing for ‘Transmission’ and ‘Stump’. Longer form dramatic editing work has included the features ‘1922’ (based on a Stephen King novella for Netflix), ‘Hounds of Love’ (nominated for an AACTA in feature editing) and has most recently wrapped editing the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Children of the Corn’ and Devil’s Peak starring Billy-Bob Thornton and Robyn Wright. Feature documentaries include ‘Kuru, The Science and the Sorcery’, ‘Girt By Sea’, ‘Yagan’ and ‘Prison Songs’, many of which have been awarded and critically acclaimed. As a director Merlin has helmed large commercial campaigns with complicated visual treatments for the Water Corporation, Edith Cowan University and has been the goto for nearly all promotional films and branding for the Western Australian film agency Screenwest.
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