About me
In the past 30 years of recording, some of the projects that I have completed are:
Feature highlights:
" Gran Turismo" ( Sony Pictures 2023)
"Kirschbluten and Damonen" (ARTE 2019)
"Fukushima Mon Amour" (Berlin Film Festival 2016)
"Fishing Without Nets", ( Best Director Award, Sundance 2014)
"Vara :A Blessing" (Opening film, Busan International Film Festival 2013)
"The Dictator", 2nd unit sound mixer (Paramount Pictures 2012)
"Goodbye Solo" (Toronto , Winner FIPRESCI Best Film Award Venice 2008)
" Vicky Christina Barcelona" , Woody Allen, NY section of shoot , 2008
"4 Sheets to the Wind"( Special Jury Prize winner, Sundance 2007)
"The War Within" (Toronto Film Festival 2005)
"Personal Velocity "(Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2002)
Documentary highlights:
"Drivers" / Amazon Prime (25)
" Blink "/ Nat Geo / Disney films ( 23-24)
"The Me You Can't See" , Prod. Oprah / Prince Harry (2021)
"Inventing Tomorrow", Dir. Laura Nix , Peabody Award winner (2020)
"The Reason I Jump", World Cinema Audience Award, Sundance (2020)
"Asian Americans" / PBS / (2019)
"Seiji Ozawa - Return To Japan " prod. by ARTE (2017))
"The Coming War" directed by John Pilger (2016)
"We are X" prod. by Academy Award winning John Bateck ( 2016)
Morgan Spurlock's "Comic Con: A Fan's Hope", produced by Stan Lee (2011)
"Sing your Song" , doc. on Harry Belafonte, PBS (2011)
"Teenage Paparazzo", feature by Adrian Grenier , HBO (2010).
"Bhutto", with Academy Award nominee Amy Berg (2010)
"Becoming Human", a 3 part series for PBS NOVA (2009)
"Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices", HBO (08).
"Wal Mart: Is It Good for America" ,Prod. Hedrick Smother, PBS Frontline (04)
Network Television Series: "Blind Spot"/ NBC (2020)
"The Carrie Diaries "/ CW(2013)
"The Big C / Showtime / 2nd Unit (2011)
"White Collar"/ USA Network/" 2nd Unit (2011) "30 Rock" / NBC / 2nd Unit ()
"Law and Order: ." / NBC/ 2nd unit ()
Netflix:
Rael : The Alien Prophet (2024)
Chefs Table- Pizza( 2023 )
Fugitive : The curious case of Carlos Ghosn(2022)
Why Cats Are Cats (2022)
Age of Samurai (2021)
Rising Phoenix (2020)
Naomi Osaka (2019)
Ugly Delicious (2018)
Fuller House (2017)
Chefs Table( 2015 )
Nazi Mega Structures (2015) Forensics (2010)
Cable TV:
Arts Most : Erotic , Sky TV (2025)
The Arts Show , Sky TV ( 2024)
Limitless , Chris Hemsworth, Nat Geo (2022) Watch the Sound: Mark Ronson ,Apple TV ( 2020) Abandoned, National Geographic (2012)
Nightmare Next Door, Discovery ID () Prison Wives, Discovery ID (2009)
Break It Down, National Geographic (2009)
Project Runway, Season 8, Bravo (2009)
America's Next Top Model, Season 10, CW (2007).
Being Bobby Brown with Whitney Houston, BRAVO (2004)
Nature:
Totoganashi : Patagonia Films ( 2024)
Save the Beyond : Whale sharks (2022)
Wild Dogs , BBC Natural History (2021)
The Longest Swim, Discovery (2021)
Antarctica, History Channel (2020)
Tigerland, Long listed for Academy Award in Doc section (2019 )
Drain The Oceans ,Nat Geo (2017)
The Story of Cats , ITV, (2016)
Into the Dead Zone, The Cousteau Foundation (2013)
Commercials:
Vibram ( 2025)
Ritz Carlton ( 2025)
Arcteryx ( 2025)
McLaren: Artura( 2024)
Victoria Secret (2023)
CNN (2022)
Sony (2021)
Burberry (2021)
Nike (2020)
Adidas (2020)
The North Face (2020) Citizen Watches (2020) Air B and B (2019) TUMI (2019)
Fila (2019)
Instagram (2019)
Amazon (2019)
Google Phone Pixel 2 (2018)
Adidas with Damian Lillard NBA (2015) Facebook (2014)
Audi (2011)
AT and T (2010)
iPhone campaign with Errol Morris (2007)
Corporate Videos:
American Express ( 2025)
X box ( 2025)
Final Fantasy : Magic The Gathering ( 2024)
IKEA (2022)
Nissan (2020)
Don Perignon (2019)
Paul Smith (2019)
Fujitsu (2019)
Phillips (2018)
Novartis (2017)
Dior (2015)
Intel (2015)
Apple (2015)
Harvard Business School (2014) All Nippon Airways (2014)
Some of my work can be seen here:
Internet Movie Data Base.:
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Giles has worked with diverse directors such as Woody Allen (Vicky, Christina, Barcelona), Larry Charles (The Dictator), Morgan Spurlock (Comic Con), Errol Morris (iPhone commercials), Academy Award winner Ross Kaufmann (Fire with Fire), Academy award nominee Amy Berg (Bhutto) and John Pilger (The Coming War) to name a few.
His films have won many awards such as Best Editing (We Are X), Grand Jury prize , Sundance (Personal Velocity) Best Director, Sundance (Fishing Without Nets), FIPRESCI Best Film award , Venice (Goodbye Solo), Special Jury Prize, Sundance (Four Sheets to the Wind) and have been exhibited in all the major film festivals such as Berlin,Cannes, Toronto, SxSW, Busan etc.
Skills
Audio, Location Sound Recording, Sound Engineering, sound mixer, sound recordist
Sector Experience
Advertising, commercials, documentary, Film (Feature), Film (Short / Documentary), reality, Television
Awards
Berlin Film Festival, BUSAN FF, SUNDANCE, TORONTO FF, VENICE FF
Clients
Apple, Arte, Bravo, CBS, Dior, Discovery Communications, Facebook, HBO, National Geographic, NBCUniversal International, Paramount Pictures, PASSION FILMS, PBS