RISING TALENT 2024: EDITORS

RISING TALENT 2024

The IF Rising Talent list for 2024 is made up of people we think will shift and lead our industry into the future. Some are newer faces, others have recently stepped into senior roles where they’re now making waves. We think you’ll want to work with all of them. We put this list together through a public call out and extensive insdustry outreach. This year, we had a staggering 692 names put forward. As always, this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of talent that’s out there in Australia.

EDITORS

DELANEY MURPHY

Delaney Murphy is a freelance documentary film and commercial editor based in Melbourne. She began her career working closely with Amiel Courtin-Wilson as an additional editor on feature films Carnation and Man on Earth. In 2020, she edited the short doc ZEF (dir. Jessica Barclay Lawton) which premiered on Nowness and amassed more than 3 million views. She went on to edit another Barclay Lawton short, The Sweetness, which premiered at Sydney Film Festival and earned her a nomination for Most Exciting Off-Screen Talent at ReelGood Film Festival.

In 2023, Murphy edited two feature documentaries: Bromley: Light After Dark (dir. Sean McDonald), which won the Adelaide Film Festival’s Feature Documentary Audience Award, and Rewards for the Tribe (dir. Rhys Graham) which had its world premiere at Adelaide. She is currently working on her third feature documentary as editor, Queens of Concrete (dir. Eliza Cox), which is due to premiere later this year.

Murphy is also known for her commercial work across Melbourne and Sydney, and in 2023 was recognised by Shots Asia Pacific for her work in advertising with the Silver - Editor of the Year award.

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KEVIN LUK

Kevin Luk is an editor and visual effects artist based in Melbourne. A proud graduate of the Australian Screen Editors’ mentor program, Luk has worked across short and long-form content, with a focus on narrative storytelling.

His credits include the AACTA-nominated short Rebooted (for which he received an Ellie Award), ABC children’s project The Legend of Burnout Barry, Neighbours spin-off Erinsborough High and the AACTAnominated animated series The Future of Everything.

Luk was an edit assistant on the ABC drama Bay of Fires through a VicScreen attachment, and the assembly editor on feature documentary Ellis Park, directed by Justin Kurzel. His most recent project is the ABC and Screen Australia Fresh Blood project Ruby Rai P.I., which will premiere in mid-2024.

Luk received two Ellie Award nominations in 2023, for The Future of Everything and commercial Walk With Care.

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ASHLEIGH DEGROOT

Originally from Perth, Ashleigh deGroot got her first opportunity to work in TV through Screenwest’s assistant editor attachment program on the Discovery series Aussie Gold Hunters.

From there, deGroot shifted into TV drama with an assistant role on The Heights, and began a freelance career. She has since worked on 130 TV episodes as an assembly editor and a first assistant editor, on projects such as Disney+’s The Artful Dodger, Paramount+’s Paper Dolls and Last King of the Cross, Stan’s Year Of and Netflix’s The Mole. deGroot has also worked on feature films, including as assembly editor for Molly Haddon’s The Longest Weekend.

Now based in Sydney, deGroot recently gained her first broadcast credit as editor on season 4 of Stan’s Bump.

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PHOENIX CHISHOLM

Phoenix Chisholm is an editor based in Sydney. He started his career as an assistant editor and in 2022, stepped up to the role of additional editor on the first season of Netflix’s Heartbreak High. This saw him go on to be nominated for the Australian Screen Editors’ emerging editor award and shortlisted for the guild’s First Cut initiative.

Last year, Chisholm then stepped up further to serve as an editor on Heartbreak High season 2, marking his first broadcast credit as editor. Chisholm’s other editor credits include SBS’s Latecomers and a series of feature length concert films for the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has worked as an assistant editor on projects such as The Convert, The Pope’s Exorcist, Wellmania, Ithaka, The Unusual Suspects and Firestarter: The Story of Bangarra.

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JOSEF SWITAK

Josef Switak is a Brisbane-based editor who has worked across animation, live-action narrative and documentary. Recently he served as editor on season three of Bluey, cutting 50 episodes, including the half-hour special The Sign, and edited upcoming animated feature film The Sloth Lane.

His other credits include animated features Combat Wombat 2: Back to Back and The Lost Tiger, as well as live-action drama web-series Two Weeks, short docu-series Bananas, and factual TV series’ Snake Boss and Making Marvels.

He is currently editing Santa.com, an animated feature for Cosmic Dino Studio.