Will Hewitt is a Documentary Editor

(who sometimes Directs)

BAFTA Scotland winner for Best Short Film - ‘Harmonic Spectrum’

Royal Television Society Scotland winner for Best Documentary - ‘Long Live My Happy Head’

Will Hewitt is an Edinburgh, Scotland based feature documentary Editor, he's a recipient of the Grierson/Netflix DocLab scheme & a Broadcast Magazine Hotshot. He is also the Editor of the Sundance selected feature length ‘Birds of War’.

Highlights (my proudest work):

Docedge Film Festival, Documentary. New Zealand. Black background with white laurel wreath and text stating 'Official Selection docedge Film Festival 2022' Long Live My Happy Head
Logo for Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival International Competition 2022 featuring a stylized starburst design. Long Live My Happy Head
Long Live My Happy Head, Documentary Film. Award graphic for the 2022 Music+Sound Awards, highlighting a winner for Best Original Composition in a Feature Film with bold black, white, and orange text and a large orange arrow.
Long Live My Happy Head, Documentary Film. Award badge for the 2022 NH DOCS film festival, emphasizing best editing with a laurel wreath design.
Long Live My Happy Head, Documentary Film. Laurel wreath surrounding the text 'Official Selection Framelie46 San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival' on a black background.
Harmonic Spectrum, Documentary Film. Black background with white text and laurel wreath, indicating official selection of British Shorts at Berlin 2022, 15th Lichtspielklub Short Film Festival.
Harmonic Spectum, Documentary Film. Black background with white laurel branches surrounding bold white text that reads 'Winner Optical Sound Award Flatpack Festival 2021'.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, Documentary Film. A digital graphic design showing that the film won the Szczecin Film Festival in 2019, with laurels on the sides.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, Documentary Film. Black award badge with white text and decorative border, reading: Winner, Best Community, Bolton, International Film Festival 2019.
Sink or Skim, Documentary Film.Award badge for DIFT 2020 Dunedin International Film Festival, official selection, with white laurel branches on black background.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film.Official selection laurel wreath badge for the St. Andrews Film Festival featuring a vintage film projector illustration.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film.Black background with white laurel wreaths and text announcing the London Short Film Festival 2025 in competition.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film.Black background with white laurel wreath surrounding text indicating a finalist position at the 2025 Absurd Art House Film Festival.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, Documentary Film. Award badge for the Master of Art film festival competition 2020, with laurel wreaths on each side and a stylized camera shutter icon.
Harmonic Spectrum, Documentary Film. Black background promotional poster for the 2021 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival short documentary, featuring white laurel wreaths and text.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, Documentary Film. Black and white record label design with the text 'Official Selection Sound Unseen 2019' on a semi-circular background.
Harmonic Spectrum, Documentary Film. Logo for the Youth Film Access Festival with stylized black and white film strip and purple text.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film. Black background with white laurel branches framing the text 'Official Selection Short Circuit 2025'
Harmonic Spectrum, Documentary Film. Logo for the 2021 Glasgow Short Film Festival, featuring text and laurel wreaths on a black background.
Sink or Skim, Documentary Film. Black background with white text and laurel wreaths surrounding the words 'Official Selection FS.12 Filmstock 12 Lutón UK 2019'.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film. Black and white emblem for The Smalls Film Festival, featuring the event name, laurel wreath design, and text indicating official selection for 2024.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film. Black background with white text and outline design for Outwith Fest 25, with the phrase 'Official Selection' at the top and a stylized outline of the state of Oregon.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film. Black background with white laurel branches on each side, displaying the text 'Glasgow Film Short Festival 2024 Official Selection' in the center.
Long Live My Happy Head, Documentary Film. Black and white digital graphic with text and laurel design, promoting the BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival, official selection 2022.
Harmonic Spectrum, Documentary Film. Black and white poster for Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2022, featuring two pinecones with pine needles on either side.
Long Live My Happy Head, The Hermit of Treig , Documentary Film. Logo for Celtic Media Festival with a stylized spiraled shamrock and event name in gray text on a black background.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, Documentary Film. Logo for the 2020 Better Cities Film Festival in Detroit, Michigan, featuring a stylized film projector and laurel wreath design.
Harmonic Spectrum, Documentary Film. Black background with white text and laurel wreaths, displaying 'Glasgow Film Festival 2021 Official Selection'
Long Live My Happy Head, Documentary Film. Black and white logo for the Windsor International Film Festival 2022, featuring a laurel wreath and text.
Harmonic Spectrum, Documentary Film.Black circular logo with laurel leaves and text: 'Official Selection 2022 St Kilda Film Festival'.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, Documentary Film. Logo for the Earth Day Film Fest 2020 with a globe and film reel design, surrounded by laurel branches, indicating official selection.
Award emblem for Reelout Queer Film Festival 2023 in Kingston, Canada, featuring laurels and text recognizing the film 'Long Live My Happy Head' as winner of best love story, directed by Austin McCowan and Will Hewitt.
Instruments in the Architecture: Building the Pianodrome, Documentary Film. Black background with white text reading "Sustainable Living Film Festival, Official Selection 2019," surrounded by laurel wreaths.
Have You Seen The beast?, Documentary Film.Black background with white laurel wreaths on the left and right sides, displaying text 'Official Selection Shortscape 2024'.
Long Live My Happy Head, Documentary Film.Black background with white text and laurel wreath design, reading 'Official Selection Damn These Heels Queens Film Festival 2022'.
Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film.Black and white award laurel wreath with text reading 'Official Selection Close Up Edinburgh Docufest 2024'.
BAFTA WINER SCOTLAND HARMONIC SPECTRUM
Neon sign featuring a profile of a person's face and head outline, with text 'Grierson DocLab In Focus' and a green box with 'EDITING' in black, and 'IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NETFLIX' at the bottom. Will Hewitt
Logo of the Royal Television Society indicating a Scotland winner, featuring a stylized gold award with a face profile and a black background. Long Live My Happy Head, Documentary Film. BBC Scotland
Purple circular logo with the words 'Broadcast hot shots 2023' Will Hewitt
Black background with white abstract shapes resembling a film strip and the text 'Sony Future Filmmaker Awards' in white. Have You Seen The Beast?, Documentary Film.

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