Evolutions expands high-end documentary offering
Hires senior Molinare talent to spearhead genre
Invests £200,000 in new Flame facilities
London, UK – 13 January 2022 – Evolutions, one of the UK’s leading post-production facilities, is expanding its offering of premium services in the high-end documentary space. Through an investment of £200,000 in Flame facilities and the hiring of three talented editors, the new focus sees the continued growth of the company following the recent extensive expansion of its flagship Sheraton Street facility.
Des Murray, previously Head of Editing at Molinare will join Evolutions on January 18th as a Senior Flame Artist heading up work on the Flames. Murray’s extensive experience includes recent hit documentaries such as Netflix’s “Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer” and “Memories of a Murderer: The Nilson Tapes”, as well as BBC’s “The Trials of Oscar Pistorius” and “Football’s Darkest Secret”. Murray will be based in the Sheraton Street Facility.
Based out of the Soho facilities, Laurence Thripp, previously Senior Online Editor at Molinare joined the fold as a Senior Online Editor at Evolutions on January 5th. Thripp’s impressive portfolio of work includes Amazon Prime Videos’ “Uprising”, BBC’s “Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic” and Sky Original’s “Queen of Speed”.
Further to the expansion in the high-end documentary space, Evolutions is continuing its growth company wide with Afzal Ali also joining in December 2021 as an Editor. Ali’s vast experience includes popular titles such as BBC’s “Don’t Tell The Bride”, “MasterChef” and TLC’s “Most Extreme”, and prior to being freelance, Ali worked at Molinare.
The new Flame facilities will enable Evolutions to further expand into the high-end documentary genre, following its previous successful series in this space including BBC One’s “Serengeti”, BBC America’s “Meerkat Manor” and Sky’s “Gangs of Baboon Falls”.
Simon Kanjee, CEO of Evolutions: “We are thrilled to continue the expansion of our team with these incredible new additions. Our growth in high-end documentaries represents a new era for us at Evolutions, and we are proud to have such a strong line up of talent to kick-start this for us this year. In addition, our new Flame facilities are demonstrative of our commitment to our new talent and our continued development as an industry leading force in the post-production space.”