Geoffrey Richman
Geoffrey Richman has been a freelance editor for over ten years.
After graduating from NYU, he shot and edited for The Big Picture
Alliance, a non-profit organization that teaches filmmaking to
inner-city teenagers. Lenora, a student-produced docudrama about a
Cambodian girl shot and killed in a video store, won a CINE Eagle
award in 1998. Since then, Geoff has cut documentary and reality
programming for a variety of networks including Showtime, Discovery
Channel, TLC, The Food Network, Oxygen, and PBS.
Credits include
Behind the Hatred: Mortal Enemies, a documentary on Ariel Sharon and
Yasser Arafat, that won two Emmys in 2003; and The Skin I'm In, a
doc on Jimi Hendrix and Sly and The Family Stone. He was also
Director of Photography and Editor of the romantic comedy The Descent
of Walter McFea, which screened at the IFP and won Best Narrative
Feature at the Hollywood.com Film Festival. Most recently, Geoffrey
edited Murderball, a documentary about the lives of quadriplegic
rugby players. Murderball premiered at Sundance 2005 and won the
Audience Award for Best Documentary, as well as the first-ever Special
Jury Prize for Editing. It is being distributed by THINKFilm and MTV
Films, and will be in theaters this summer.
Credits include
Behind the Hatred: Mortal Enemies, a documentary on Ariel Sharon and
Yasser Arafat, that won two Emmys in 2003; and The Skin I'm In, a
doc on Jimi Hendrix and Sly and The Family Stone. He was also
Director of Photography and Editor of the romantic comedy The Descent
of Walter McFea, which screened at the IFP and won Best Narrative
Feature at the Hollywood.com Film Festival. Most recently, Geoffrey
edited Murderball, a documentary about the lives of quadriplegic
rugby players. Murderball premiered at Sundance 2005 and won the
Audience Award for Best Documentary, as well as the first-ever Special
Jury Prize for Editing. It is being distributed by THINKFilm and MTV
Films, and will be in theaters this summer.