{{Short description|Australian film editor (born 1966)}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Tania Nehme | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966|09}} | birth_place = | occupation = Film editor | years_active = 1986–present | spouse = | children = | relatives = | networth = }}
'''Tania Nehme''' (born September 1966) 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.
==Early life and education== Tania Nehme was born in September 1966<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tania NEHME |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/GIAq5T24O7WLh_WRYmZcVBQ1EOc/appointments|access-date=2020-11-22|website=find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk|language=en}}</ref> and is from South Australia.<ref name=aacta2021>{{cite web | title=South Australia shines at 2021 AACTA Awards | website=South Australian Film Corporation | date=9 December 2021 | url=https://www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/7869/ | access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref>
She graduated from the Flinders Drama Centre at Flinders University in Adelaide in 1983,<ref name=flinders83>{{cite web | title=Class of 1983 | website=Flinders Drama Centre | url=https://www.flindersdramacentregraduates.com/1983.html | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref> and in 1990 gained an AFTRS Certificate from the Australian Film Television and Radio School.<ref name=aftrs2022>{{cite web | title=World Premieres for AFTRS Student and Alumni Films at Adelaide Film Festival | website=Australian Film Television and Radio School | date=24 October 2022 | url=https://www.aftrs.edu.au/news/2022/world-premieres-for-aftrs-student-and-alumni-films-at-adelaide-film-festival/ | access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref>
==Career== Nehme has worked as a film editor since 1986. She began her career by working on commercials, documentaries, and short drama films.<ref name=ronin>{{cite web | title=Tania Nehme |website=Ronin Films | url=https://www.roninfilms.com.au/person/14111/tania-nehme.html | access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=flinders83/>
While studying at AFTRS in 1989, she edited a short film called ''Once In Time'', directed by Isou Morimoto, which earned a nomination in the 1991 AFI Awards.<ref name=ronin/><ref name=flinders83/>
In 1995 she edited her first feature film, Rolf de Heer's ''Epsilon'', and went on to several more of De Heer's films, including ''The Quiet Room'' (1996), ''Dance Me to My Song'' (1998),''The Old Man Who Read Love Stories'' (2001; released 2004), ''The Tracker'' (2002) and ''Alexandra's Project'' (2003). After their collaboration on ''Ten Canoes'' (2006), she also edited a documentary about the making of the film, called ''The Balanda And The Bark Canoes''. Both films won awards. In collaboration with de Heer, Molly Reynolds, and the Yolngu people of the Arafura Swamp, she worked on ''Twelve Canoes'', a spin-off educational project made for television.<ref name=flinders83/> Also for De Heer, along with directors Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, she edited the 2012 comedy drama ''The King is Dead''.<ref name=flinders83/>
She also edited Richard Flanagan's 1998 film adaptation of his novel, ''The Sound Of One Hand Clapping''.<ref name=flinders83/>
In 2007 Nehme edited a silent feature film ''Dr. Plonk''.<ref name=flinders83/>
In 2009, she edited the award-winning documentary feature ''Contact'', directed by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean,<ref name=flinders83/> which tells the story of 20 Martu people who in 1964 became the last people in the Great Sandy Desert to have come into contact with Europeans.<ref>{{cite web | last=Maddox | first=Garry | title=Contact | website=The Sydney Morning Herald | date=10 September 2009 | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/contact-20090910-gdtpva.html | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref>
She edited ''Tanna'' (released 2015) which was Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards in 2017,<ref name=tanna>{{Cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-25/tanna-co-director-says-oscars-nomination-is-a-dream-come-true/8210236|title=Director of 'Vanuatu's Romeo and Juliet' says Oscars nod 'a dream come true'|newspaper=ABC News |date=25 January 2017}}</ref> and the 2016 documentary about Liz Jackson, ''A Sense of Self''.<ref name=walkley>{{Cite web|url=https://www.walkleys.com/award-winners/martin-butler-liz-jackson-bentley-dean-and-tania-nehme-a-sense-of-self/|title = Martin Butler, Liz Jackson, Bentley Dean and Tania Nehme}}</ref>
In 2022 she edited Matt Vesely's debut feature, the sci-fi thriller ''Monolith'', for which her work drew praise from reviewers.<ref>{{cite web | title=Monolith Weaves an Unsettling Mystery with a Mesmerising Performance from Lily Sullivan | website=The Curb | date=2 August 2023 | url=https://www.thecurb.com.au/monolith-review-weaves-an-unsettling-mystery-with-a-mesmerising-performance-from-lily-sullivan/ | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Freebury | first=Jane | title=Monolith | website=Jane Freebury, writer | date=18 November 2023 | url=https://janefreeburywriter.com.au/monolith/ | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref>
She edited Sally Aitken's 2024 documentary feature ''Every Little Thing'', which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.<ref>{{cite web | last=Slatter | first=Sean | title=Sally Aitken's 'Every Little Thing' added to SXSW line-up | website=IF Magazine | date=8 February 2024 | url=https://if.com.au/sally-aitkens-every-little-thing-added-to-sxsw/ | access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref>
Apart from feature films, 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''.<ref name=ronin/> In 2013, she edited the four-episode documentary series ''First Footprints'', directed by Martin Butler and Bentley Dean and narrated by Ernie Dingo, which premiered on 14 July 2013 on ABC Television. The series won the Walkley Documentary Award in 2013.<ref name=austlitff>{{cite web | title=First Footprints | website=AustLit | url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/7352266 | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Walkley Winners Archive | website=The Walkley Foundation | date=8 December 2023 | url=https://www.walkleys.com/awards/walkley-winners-archive/ | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref>
==Other activities== Nehme was on the jury at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival, along with Madeleine Parry and Larissa Behrendt.<ref>{{cite web | title=Asylum-seeker doco on winners' list | website=Flinders University: News | date=17 October 2018 | url=https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2018/10/17/asylum-seeker-doco-winners-list/ | access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref>
In 2020 she was a guest lecturer at a 5-day development workshop called the Aboriginal Short Film Initiative, run by filmmakers Beck Cole and Warwick Thornton at South Australian Film Corporation's Adelaide Studios.<ref>{{cite web | title=Filmmakers selected for Aboriginal Short Film Initiative | website=SAFC | date=20 January 2020 | url=https://www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/filmmakers-selected-for-aboriginal-short-film-initiative/ | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref>
==Recognition and awards== *1991: Nominated, AFI Award for her work on the 1989 short drama film ''Once in a Time''<ref name=ronin/><ref name=flinders83/> *2002: Nominated, Best Editor, AFI Awards, for ''The Tracker''<ref name=flinders83/> *2002: Nominated, Best Editing for Film, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, for ''The Tracker''<ref name=flinders83/> *2003: Nominated, Best Editing for Film, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, for ''Alexandra's Project''<ref name=flinders83/> *2003: Nominated, Best Editor, AFI Awards, for ''Alexandra's Project''<ref name=flinders83/> *2004: Winner, IF Award for Best Editing, for ''The Old Man Who Read Love Stories''<ref name=flinders83/> *2004: Nominated, Best Editor, AFI Award, for ''The Old Man Who Read Love Stories''<ref name=flinders83/> *2004: Nominated, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2004, for ''The Old Man Who Read Love Stories''<ref name=flinders83/> *2006: Winner, AFI Award for Best Editing for ''Ten Canoes''<ref name=aff10>{{cite web | title=Ten Canoes | website=Adelaide Film Festival | date=8 August 2024 | url=https://www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/investment-fund/2005/ten-canoes | access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref><ref name=flinders83/> *2006: Winner, Best Editing, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for ''Ten Canoes''<ref name=aff10/> *2006: Winner, Best Documentary at the Critics Circle Awards, shared with Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds, for ''The Balanda And The Bark Canoes''<ref name=flinders83/> *2017: Winner, Walkley Documentary Award in the Walkley Awards, for ''A Sense of Self''; awarded to Liz Jackson, Martin Butler, Bentley Dean, and Tania Nehme<ref name=walkley/> *2021: Winner, AFTRS Award for Best Editing in a Short Drama at the Ellie Awards, Australian Screen Editors, for ''Ayaan''<ref>{{cite web | title=THE ELLIE AWARDS 2021 (Write-up) | website=Australian Screen Editors | date=10 March 2022 | url=https://www.screeneditors.com.au/the-ellie-awards-2021-tickets-on-sale/ | access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> *2021: Nominated, Dendy Award for Australian Short Film at the Sydney Film Festival, for ''Ayaan''<ref name=ayaan>{{cite web | title=Sydney Film Festival Program Packed With AFTRS Alumni Works | website=Australian Film Television and Radio School | date=25 January 2021 | url=https://www.aftrs.edu.au/news/2020/sydney-film-festival-program-packed-with-aftrs-alumni-works/ | access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> *2021: Winner, Best Editing in the AACTA Awards, for ''My Name Is Gulpilil''.<ref name=aacta2021/>
==Selected filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Film ! Director ! Notes |- |1989 |''Once in a Time'' |Isao Morimoto |Short drama film<ref>{{cite web | title=Once in Time (1989) | website=Screen Australia | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/once-in-time-1989/3428 | access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> |- |1995 |''Epsilon'' |rowspan=3|Rolf de Heer |<ref name=ronin/> |- |1996 |''The Quiet Room'' |<ref name=ronin/> |- |1997 |''Almost Alien'' | |- |rowspan=2|1998 |''The Sound of One Hand Clapping'' |Richard Flanagan |<ref name=ronin/> |- |''Dance Me to My Song'' |Rolf de Heer |<ref>{{cite web | title=database | website=Australian Cinema | date=22 October 1998 | url=https://australiancinema.info/db/2004/dance.html | access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=ronin/> |- |2001 |''Heather Rose Goes to Cannes'' |Chris Corin |Documentary |- |2002 |''The Tracker'' |rowspan=2|Rolf de Heer |Best Editor nominations at 2002 AFI Awards and Film Critics Circle Awards; also nominated as part of the sound team<ref name=ronin/> |- |rowspan=2|2003 |''Alexandra's Project'' |Best Editor nominations at the 2003 AFI and Film Critics Circle Awards; also nominated as part of the sound team<ref name=ronin/> |- |''The 13th House'' |Shane McNeil | |- |2004 |''The Old Man Who Read Love Stories'' |rowspan=3|Rolf de Heer |Winner, Best Editor at the IF Awards; nominations for Best Editing at the Film Critic's Circle and AFI Awards<ref name=ronin/> |- |2006 |''Ten Canoes'' |7th feature film with Rolf de Heer;<ref name=ronin/> AFI Award for Best Editing;<ref name=imdbawards>{{cite web | title=Tania Nehme | website=IMDb | date=21 August 2022 | url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0624572/awards | access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref> Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2006, Best Editing |- |rowspan=2|2007 |''Dr. Plonk'' |Feature |- |''Done Dirt Cheap'' |Debbie Carmody |TV short |- |2008 |''Casualties of War'' |Jeni Lee |Documentary |- |2009 |''Jacob'' |Dena Curtis |Short Drama |- |rowspan=2|2009 |''Twelve Canoes'' |Rolf de Heer | |- |''Contact'' |Martin Butler<br>Bentley Dean |Documentary |- |2011 |''Top Dog'' |Fiona Percival | |- |2012 |''The King is Dead'' | rowspan="2" |Rolf de Heer<br>Martin Butler<br>Bentley Dean |Comedy drama |- |2013 |''First Footprints'' |TV series<ref>{{IMDb title|3286844|First Footprints}}</ref><ref name=austlitff/> |- |2013 |''Charlie's Country'' |Rolf de Heer |Feature film |- | rowspan="3" |2015 |''Another Country'' | rowspan="2" |Molly Reynolds |rowspan=2|Feature documentary |- |''Still Our Country'' |- |''Tanna'' |Bentley Dean<br>Martin Butler |Nominated for Best Foreign Film, Academy Awards 2017<ref name=tanna/> |- |2016 |''A Sense of Self'' |Liz Jackson<br>Martin Butler<br>Bentley Dean<br>Tania Nehme |2017 Walkley Award for best documentary<ref name=walkley/> |- |2019/2020 |''Ayaan'' |Alies Sluiter |Short film, starring Babetida Sadjo, Trevor Jamieson, and Gary Sweet<ref>{{cite web | title=The Screen Guide | website=Screen Australia | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/ayaan-2019/38939/ | access-date=23 August 2024}}</ref> |- |2020 |''Yer Old Faither'' |Heather Croall |Feature documentary<ref>{{cite web | title=Yer Old Faither (2020) | website=Screen Australia | url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/yer-old-faither-2020/35386/ | access-date=22 November 2025}}</ref> |- |2021 |''My Name is Gulpilil'' |Molly Reynolds |Documentary about Yolngu actor David Gulpilil |- |2021 |''Facing Monsters'' |Bentley Dean |Documentary; with Meredith Watson Jeffrey<ref>{{cite web | last=Slatter | first=Sean | title='You had to be ready to go': Bentley Dean on finding and 'Facing Monsters' | website=IF Magazine | date=10 March 2022 | url=https://if.com.au/you-had-to-be-ready-to-go-bentley-dean-on-finding-and-facing-monsters/ | access-date=25 August 2024}}</ref> |- |2022 |''Monolith'' |Matt Vesely |Sci-fi thriller<ref name=aftrs2022/> |}
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