Biography

Geof Bartz was the Supervising Editor for HBO Documentary Films for 25 years (1998 - 2023).

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

Bartz was the co-producer and supervising editor of NBC's Emmy winning series "Lifeline" (1979) and he co-produced and edited the 20th Century Fox feature "Stripper (1984).

Bartz has edited nine films that have been nominated for Academy Awards. In 2000 and 2001, he cut two short documentaries, "King Gimp" and "Big Mama", that won back-to-back Oscars. Then in 2015 and 2016, "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1" and "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" also won consecutive Academy Awards.

Bartz has been nominated for ten Emmys and won four. in addition, he has cut films that 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 (ACE) and the Motion Picture Editors Guild.

Bartz taught "Introduction to Film Editing" at the Columbia University School of the Arts for 20 years (1978-1998).

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

Bartz 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 Sullivan. Their daughter Juliet Bartz graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and is the Director of Documentary Development at AXIOS.
- IMDb mini biography by: Lynn Sullivan