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In 2007, his work featured in Richard Trank’s documentary I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life & Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal. More recently, with American, German, and Swedish colleagues, he carried out studies into experimental forensic technologies for Admissible Evidence.
Bemister was a life member of the Oxford University Film Foundation, and a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, New York, and the Frontline Club, London. He was also an Associate Member of the Oxford University Society. He was educated at St George’s College, Weybridge, England, and received the Undergraduate Diploma in Film Studies at the University of Oxford.
Throughout his life, Bemister suffered from intermittent bipolar disorder. He helped to establish the "Equilibrium" foundation, which promotes research about the condition. He was married briefly in 1995.
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