Exec Producer: Tom Latter.

Nutopia for History US

Editors: Felix Black and Andreas Torner

4^th April

Back in the glorious 1990’s, FBI agents Mulder and Scully revealed to us that “the truth is out there” with the cultural phenomenon that was The X-Files TV series. 

Now, decades later, Mulder himself – David Duchovny – brings us real life secrets from governments, shady national agencies and brutal dictators – some only recently declassified. Using drama recon and archive footage,  this new 10-part series offers a closer look at government projects and operations that have been shrouded in secrecy with the added intrigue of uncovering facts rather than fiction. Each episode of Secrets Declassified focuses on a different subject, with Duchovny speaking to experts, investigators, and insiders who shed light on previously unknown or misunderstood events.

Andreas Torner worked on Episode 10 called ‘Strange Weapons’. He talked about the edit saying “It was a remote edit and great fun to work on – excellent stories and some fantastic material to work with. It uses archive as well as extensive drama reconstruction. Some of the archive they dug up is really quite extraordinary. Well worth a watch!”.

Felix thought editing with Nutopia was an absolute blast, with a top-tier team being assembled to meticulously build authentic stories with amazing archive and dramatic reconstructions. He told us it was both a privilege and weighty responsibility to craft these stories in the edit with a reverence for the past and the people who really did suffer terribly or lost their lives in these real life events. The bar that Felix set was to always keep the story alive with the archive itself, selecting the material that will place the audience in the narrative so dramatically that it feels like the story is unravelling right before them. Melding sound design with music and dramatic reconstructions to deliver a horrifically unmissable film. 

He cut Episode 8 – Unholy Alliances – helping the team to deliver intoxicating tales that do really mean that “the truth is out there”…

Catch Secrets Declassified on the History Channel from the 4^th April.