Geof Bartz

Filmklipper, Forfatter, Producer

3. december 1943 (82 år)
Geof Bartz has been the Supervising Editor for HBO Documentary Films since 1998.

Geof started his career as an assistant editor on the 1969 CBS special "Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America" and has gone on to edit, or supervise the editing of, more than 100 non-fiction films, among them the classic documentary "Pumping Iron."

Geof was the co-producer and supervising editor of the 1979 NBC Emmy winning series "Lifeline;" and he produced and co-edited the 1984 20th Century Fox feature "Stripper."

In 2000 and 2001, two short documentaries Geof cut, "King Gimp" and "Big Mama", won back-to-back Academy Awards. In 2015, his film "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1" took home the Oscar. The following year "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" also won the gold. Additionally, he has edited four other films that have been nominated for Academy Awards.

Geof has been nominated for ten Emmys and won four. And films he has cut have received three Peabody and two Columbia-Dupont Awards.

In 2017, Geof was admitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is also a long time member of the American Cinema Editors (A.C.E.) and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

Geof taught "Introduction to Film Editing" at Columbia University from 1978-1998.

Interviews with Geof can be found in "The Art of the Documentary" by Megan Cunningham and in "First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors" by Gabriella Oldham.

Geof grew up on Detroit's East Side and graduated from the University of Notre Dame (1966, BA) and Columbia University (1969, MFA Film). He lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side with his wife, Lynn. His daughter Juliet is a recent graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.

Film og serier på Plex

  • Sagen er bøf
    Sagen er bøf1977
  • Stripper
    Stripper1985

Kendt for

  • Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
    Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth1998
  • In Memoriam: New York City
    In Memoriam: New York City2002
  • Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
    Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists2018
  • Stripper
    Stripper1985
  • Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945
    Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 19451970

Filmografi

1985
Stripper · as SelfPå Plex

1985
StripperPå Plex

2025
Country Doctor · as Supervising Editor
2024
2019
2011
Hot Coffee · as Consulting Editor
2010
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey · as Editorial Coordinator
2007
2007
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven · as Editorial Services
2005
The Children of Leningradsky · as Supervising Film Editor
2004
2002
Telling Nicholas · as Supervising Editor
2000
Nuyorican Dream · as Editorial Coordinator
1990
The Best Hotel on Skid Row · as Co-Director