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Mark McKenny BFE
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Film & TV Editor | SCUBA diver | Kraftwerk fan
Rarely far from a good coffee.
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Chuffed to learn that Odd Squad UK has been nominated for two Children’s & Family Emmy Awards!
CHILDREN'S & FAMILY EMMY AWARDS Honoring Excellence in Children's & Family Television 2026 Emmy nominees
November 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Picked these two up in a daft offer at HMV. Difficult to refuse really.
#BFI #Blu-ray
BFI blu-rays of ‘Brannigan!’ and ‘Targets’.
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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‘A House of Dynamite’ was incredible. Gripping from start to finish.
#Netflix
Film poster for ‘A House of Dynamite’, with Rebecca Ferguson and Idris Elba.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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With the weather being foul it was obvious I should go out and test a tent for the night…
A Vango Tahoe tent in a camping field. A chair and table in the porch, with a stove and Aeropress.
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Thrilled to see that ‘So Awkward Academy’ has been nominated for an #RTSNW Award!
Royal Television Society North West Award Nomination for So Awkward Academy, 2025.
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Excellent pics from the ‘Past Life’ premiere at Grimmfest, with director Simeon Halligan and the wonderful team from Timeline TV North.

New screening coming soon!
‘Past Life’ editor Mark McKenny and director Simeon Halligan at Grimmfest 2025. Timeline TV North team at the ‘Past Life’ premiere, Grimmfest 2025.
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Broke open ‘The Sea Wolf’ #blu-ray.
Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield in ‘The Sea Wolf’. John Garfield in ‘The Sea Wolf’. The sailing ship ‘Ghost’ in ‘The Sea Wolf’.
October 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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‘Past Life’ premieres at #Grimmfest, with a Q&A from director Simeon Halligan and actors #AneurinBarnard and #TimMcInnerny.

It was great fun to edit this film.

#Film #IndependentFilm #Postsky #Postchat #Editing
Tim McInnerny, Aneurin Barnard and Simeon Halligan Q&A in front of the cinema screen at the ‘Past Life’ premiere. Jeremy Piven and Aneurin Barnard on the ‘Past Life’ film poster. Jeremy Piven and Aneurin Barnard in a scene from the film ‘Past Life’.
October 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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It even featured in ‘Get Carter’ back in 1971.
The shootout scene in ‘Get Carter’ (1971). Tony Beckley, George Sewell and Ian Hendry try to kill Michael Caine’s character on the Wallsend/Hebburn ferry. The gigantic Esso Hibernia is in the background.
September 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Robert Redford as Bob Woodward in Alan J Pakula’s ‘All the President’s Men’.
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Chuffed to say that ‘Past Life’ will be opening this year’s Grimmfest on October 9th.
www.grimmfest.com/screenings/p...
#independentfilm #film #editing #postsky #Grimmfest
A man looks at a notice board, covered with clues to finding a killer from the past. Poster for Simeon Halligan’s film ‘Past Life’, starring Aneurin Bernard and Jeremy Piven.
September 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Picked up a stack of £4.99 #blu-rays from my local #HMV. Can’t wait to go through these.
Blu-rays of ‘Big Wednesday’, ‘The Sea Wolf’, ‘2010 The Year We Make Contact’, ‘Waiting for Guffmann’ and ‘They Were Expendable’.
September 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Caught the British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park - good fun.
Three Touring Cars, racing at Donington Park. Five Minis racing at Donington Park. Four Formula 4 cars, racing at Donington Park. The starting grid at Donington Park racing circuit.
August 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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After being burned (literally) by the supermarket travel espresso maker, a one-cup moka pot has filled the gap.
#coffee
A one-cup moka pot, sitting on an artfully defocussed hob to hide the fact that I should have given it a wipe before taking the picture.
July 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Still too hot, decided 17m underwater was a good place to be.
Three scuba divers, posing in front of the pigs and gnome garden at Capernwray dive site, UK. The underwater plane wreck at Capernwray dive site, UK. The underwater Apeks van wreck, at Capernwray dive site, UK. The Heli 1 wreck at Capernwray dive site, UK.
July 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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And director/writer/producer Ed Zwick’s memoir is shaping up nicely too! Essential reading.
#postchat #postsky
Ed Zwick’s memoir “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood.”
July 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Film editor Paul Hirsch’s book is amazing.
#postchat #postsky
A paperback copy of film editor Paul Hirsch’s book ‘A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away….’
July 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Caught the excellent ‘Bullet Train Explosion’ on #Netflix.
Film poster for ‘Bullet Train Explosion’.
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Caught a doc on #Disney+ about the Amoco Cadiz oil spill in Brittany.

And reminded myself that I really should dive it next time I visit the in-laws…
Scuba divers approach the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz. The bow of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker in 1978, rising out of the sea with houses in the foreground.
June 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Escaped the heat and jumped back into Capernwray.
The wreck of a Volkswagen Beetle 15m underwater. A sturgeon, swimming underwater. The wreck of a Cessna aircraft underwater. A scuba diver underwater, hovering over the wreck of a plane.
June 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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At the moment I’m unconvinced, especially as the Aeropress is far less fiddly and messy. Plus it only carries 7g of coffee. However I’ll channel my inner James Hoffmann and persevere.
June 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Decided to try an Aldi special buy - their version of the Wacaco Nanopresso…
#coffee
Aldi’s supermarket version of the Wacaco Nanopresso, the Adventuridge Portable Coffee Maker.
June 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Happy 50th Birthday #Jaws!
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A scuba diver underwater, wearing a Jaws ‘three barrels’ Last Exit to Nowhere t-shirt, posing next to a wreck called ‘Amity Island’. Amity as you know, means ‘friendship’.
June 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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After a series of desk-bound aches and pains I decided to check my edit suite was at the right height. Thank god I had a pair of these handy. #Postsky #Postchat
An LG computer monitor, raised by a helpfully thick copy of 2003’s The Eleventh Virgin Film Guide.
June 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM