2011 was a very fruitful year for Tarmak, as we started the year by merging all our projects and departments under TARMAK MEDIA as we immersed ourselves in more documentary development and research mostly on the subject of the Arabspring and have worked on major BBC1 and BBC2 special episodes for Panorama and others. (more info in filmography)
Latest Post @ Tarmak Films as head of Development/ Producer for the MENA region and the UK
Interview with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK
I was honoured to have been interviewed by a member of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on the digital web field I have set up with my partner Eric Trometer : click here to download interview.
Post Production Manager at Tarmak Films Ltd starting October 2009.
I have part co-produced, edited and directed 25 episodes for an Arab Satellite Channel , a 30min show on internet and technology in the Arab World and ways to use the net as tool of activism and for human rights campaining.
Newsflash #1: 07 June 2007
Tarmak Films Ltd signs a contract with TVtrip.com to deliver over 1,000 videos for the web shot all across Europe within 12 months.
Newsflash #2: We are pleased to announce you that 'BOTH', film we worked on was selected for the 46th International Critics Week in Cannes 2007(17th may - 25th may 2007).We attended the Festival in Cannes this year and we had the best time ever , met a lot of people and hopefully networked well.Basically , we as Tarmak Films Ltd , Eric Trometer as the Film Cinematographer and Dana Kahil Trometer as the Film Editor offered Tarmak Films' expertise to work with the Director Bass Bre'che on an interesting script that led us to go to Cannes this year.
Dana & Eric Trometer
TARMAK FILMS LTD(previously Chronic Films Ltd)
About me in short:
I have been working for the last 15 years as an TV & Film Editor for commissioned & independent projects.
I started producing & directing 6 years ago and found that my knowledge of 3 languages (arabic , french and english)made me hit a niche market very rarely found in production people in London .I have been busy in the last 2 years working on documentaries for NGOs and British TVs (BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4 and ITV) as a producer and self shooting AP for prime time investigative pieces on the 'Arab Spring'. I have plenty of knowledge in the field of marketing and social media presence for all kinds of entrepreneurial presence online.
I also run a post production studio with Avid and FCP in the heart of Fulham.
I am very technical, i breath creativity, am easy going and I have a strong ability to solve problems on the spot, all besides my main passion which is“TO TELL STORIES”.
About me in detail:
In December 93 at the age of 19 I edited my first 3min short film on an old Sony U-matic SP3. I was always in love with performing arts and film. Shortly afterwards I experienced the old school of editing cutting super 8 mm film which I found extremely rewarding. My father was a visual man, a great cartoonist, who taught me to appreciate art and love the film world.
I wanted to become an editor, and was very stubborn to move up the ladder and work hard on getting to learn every trick in the book. Through my studies and later work for an advertising agency I moved from U-matic to Beta, and from super 8mm to 35mm and 16mm. I still remember my first ever computer which was a commodore 64 back in 1982. I happened to witness the whole birth and evolution of computers well before working on my first editing software which was to be an Avid Media Composer.
After graduating in 97 I started editing professionally for a local TV station on a media 100 before switching to avid. Towards the end of 1998, I decided to pursue a career in Film in the UK where I undertook an MA course, during which I got into Lightworks and its funny shark.
In Oct 1999, I had the honour to meet my favourite editor, Thelma Schoonmaker Powell who visited my old University to inaugurate the Department in memory of her husband: Michael Powell (the director of Canterbury Tales and The Red Shoes). I was asked to edit the presentation Mrs Schoonmaker Powell was to deliver in our college. I cut together a montage of Powell's direct influence on scorsese’s movies. It was a lifetime experience to meet a 2-times oscar winning editor, sit with her on an edit station and talk about editing. She is just a great editor and a great inspiration to my work.
Since then, I have developed on-line and off-line skills on Avid Xpress, Adrenaline, Symphony and Nitris. I also edit on Final Cut Pro which I have used more recently on the 13 episodes x 60 min “Investor” show for MBC Group Dubai. I also edited a $1.5 million feature film “Bosta” which got released worldwide in March 2006, but this time on Avid Xpress mojo, with conform on AutoDesk Smoke.
