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Geof Bartz
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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: Song…
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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.
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2025
Mr. Scorsese
TV show Thanks
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2025
Country Doctor
Movie Supervising Editor
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2024
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th
Movie Consulting Editor
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2023
The Insurrectionist Next Door
Movie Editor
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2022
Pelosi in the House
Movie Editor
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2018
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Movie Editor
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2017
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
Movie Editor
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2015
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Movie Editor
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2015
Larry Kramer In Love & Anger
Movie Editor
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2014
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Movie Editor
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2013
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Movie Editor
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2013
Miss You Can Do It
Movie Editor
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2011
Hot Coffee
Movie Consulting Editor
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2010
Poster Girl
Movie Editor
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2010
One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey
Movie Editorial Coordinator
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2009
Boy Interrupted
Movie Editor
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2007
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
Movie Editor
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2007
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Movie Supervising Editor
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2007
One Minute to Nine
Movie Editor
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2007
Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven
Movie Editorial Services
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2006
Dealing Dogs
Movie Editor
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2005
39 Pounds of Love
Movie Editor
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2005
The Children of Leningradsky
Movie Supervising Film Editor
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2002
Telling Nicholas
Movie Supervising Editor
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2000
Big Mama
Movie Editor
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2000
Nuyorican Dream
Movie Editorial Coordinator
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1997
Truman
Movie Editor
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1994
FDR
Movie Editor
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1993
Mob Stories
Movie Editor
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1992
Women on Trial
Movie Editor
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1991
LBJ
Movie Editor
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1986
The Wyeths: A Father and His Family
Movie Editor
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1985
Stripper
Movie Self
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1983
The Camps of Death
Movie Editor
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1978
Lifeline
TV show Producer
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1977
Pumping Iron
Movie Editor
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1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Movie Editor
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1971
The Great Radio Comedians
Movie Editor
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1970
Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945
Movie Writer
