Tania Nehme Explained

Tania Nehme (born September 1966^[1]) is an Australian film editor. She has edited a number of films directed by Rolf de Heer and won and been nominated for many awards for her editing work, including an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Editing for the 2006 film Ten Canoes.

Career

Nehme is a graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and has worked as a film editor since 1986. She began her career by working on commercials, documentaries and short drama films.^[2]

In 1991 she was nominated for an AFI Award for her work on a short drama film, Once in a Time.^[2]

Apart from feature films (some of which are listed below), she worked on Barron Television children's series Chuck Finn, the SBS Australia documentary Kumarangk 5214, and a short feature funded by the Australian Film Commission called The 13th House.^[2]

Selected filmography

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1995	Epsilon	Rolf de Heer
1996	The Quiet Room
1997	Almost Alien
1998	The Sound of One Hand Clapping	Richard Flanagan
	Dance Me to My Song	Rolf de Heer	^[3]
2001	Heather Rose Goes to Cannes	Chris Corin	Documentary
2002	The Tracker	Rolf de Heer	Best Editor nominations at 2002 AFI Awards and Film Critics Circle Awards; also nominated as part of the sound team
2003	Alexandra's Project		Best Editor nominations at the 2003 AFI and Film Critics Circle Awards; also nominated as part of the sound team
	The 13th House	Shane McNeil
2004	The Old Man Who Read Love Stories	Rolf de Heer	Winner, Best Editor at the IF Awards; nominations for Best Editing at the Film Critic's Circle and AFI Awards
2006	Ten Canoes		7th feature film with Rolf de Heer; AFI Award for Best Editing;^[4] Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2006, Best Editing
2007	Dr. Plonk		Feature
	Done Dirt Cheap	Debbie Carmody	TV short
2008	Casualties of War	Jeni Lee	Documentary
2009	Jacob	Dena Curtis	Short Drama
2009	Twelve Canoes	Rolf de Heer
	Contact	Martin Butler Bentley Dean	Documentary
2011	Top Dog	Fiona Percival
2012	The King is Dead	Rolf de Heer Martin Butler Bentley Dean	Comedy drama
2012	First Footprints Series
2013	Charlie's Country	Rolf de Heer	Feature film
2015	Another Country	Molly Reynolds	Feature documentary
	Still Our Country
	Tanna	Bentley Dean Martin Butler	Nominated for Best Foreign Film, Academy Awards 2017^[5]
2016	A Sense of Self	Liz Jackson Martin Butler Bentley Dean Tania Nehme	2017 Walkley Award for best documentary^[6]
2020	Yer Old Faither	Heather Croall	Documentary
2021	My Name is Gulpilil	Molly Reynolds	Documentary about Yolngu actor David Gulpilil
2021	Facing Monsters	Bentley Dean	Documentary
2022	Monolith	Matt Vesely

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tania NEHME . 2020-11-22. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. en.
2. Web site: Tania Nehme . . 21 August 2022.
3. Web site: database . . 22 October 1998 . 21 August 2022.
4. Web site: Tania Nehme . IMDb . 21 August 2022 . 21 August 2022.
5. Web site: Director of 'Vanuatu's Romeo and Juliet' says Oscars nod 'a dream come true'. 25 January 2017.
6. Web site: Martin Butler, Liz Jackson, Bentley Dean and Tania Nehme.