Biography

Jeff Consiglio's work as a film editor has earned one Academy Award win, a second Academy Award nomination, Emmy awards, a Grammy, Peabody and multiple film festival awards. He was nominated for the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Editing for the HBOMax Feature "LFG" and was awarded the SXSW Film Festival Special Jury Award for Editing for "Twinsters." Jeff co-directed the documentary feature "Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story" with F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Executive Producer Kevin Bright, and produced and edited the documentary feature "On These Grounds," both of which received awards at a variety of film festivals.

Jeff first studied film in the extremely small film department at VA Tech University with only a handful of fellow students and one key professor, Jerry Scheeler, who became a primary influence on Jeff's film career and long time friend. Scheeler later lobbied for and succeeded in bringing Jeff back to VA Tech to deliver the commencement address for the 2003 graduates of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Jeff's first editing work was done in Washington DC with Discovery Channel, leading to his first documentary feature "The Ballad of Bering Strait" directed by Nina Gilden-Seavey, which won the Audience Favorite award at the Washington DC International Film Festival. After relocating to Los Angeles, Jeff edited music videos for Beck, David Grey and eventually Katy Perry, film and television main title sequences and film trailers, then began what would become a multiple film collaboration with directors Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine including the Oscar winning "Inocente" and Peabody winning "Life According To Sam."

Jeff has produced on several documentary films and consulted on many more, and has been a guest lecturer and seminar presenter at schools, universities and festivals. Jeff and cinematographer Alexandre Naufel formed madeinhollywoodusa, a collaboration that has created award winning short film art, a short documentary series and NFT art.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous