The Disappearance of Lenka Wood is a low‑budget action thriller about a woman kidnapped while on holiday, forcing her husband into a frantic search across Istanbul.
I’d always wanted to cut an action movie, so when I was asked to edit one I said yes before I’d even read the script. That enthusiasm probably blinded me to a few warning signs. Before I knew it, I’d been handed two hard drives and told to deliver a full edit in a month. I did the best I could with what I had.
This was originally the start of the film. It was far stronger than the rest of the material, so I broke it apart and used it as flashbacks throughout the story.
I used sound design heavily to sell the brutality of this scene and give it more impact than the raw footage alone could provide.
