Herbert H. Bennett
- Editor
- Editorial Department
- Cinematographer
Herbert Bennett is a multiple disciplinary, award-winning video and film editor/writer/producer creating hundreds of hours of broadcast television in news, documentary, music videos, and media projects.
Bennett gained interest in television when a cable-TV provider gave Castro Valley High School a functioning TV channel. After learning to edit video in high school, Herbert went to College of San Mateo to further his studies in television, film, radio, and engineering. Prior to graduating, at age 20, he began working as a news editor at NBC affiliate KRON-TV, San Francisco. There, he won two Emmy Awards for news editing. At KRON he met documentary filmmaker Mark Kitchell who was directing the film, "Berkeley In The 60's" (1990). He became the assistant-editor on the film which garnered an Academy Award nomination.
He then began editing for CBS Network News in SF working for The Evening News, 48 Hours, & Sunday Morning, This Morning, and other programs. In 1994, Herbert founded Metropolis Editorial Post House in San Francisco in the Embarcadero area. There, cutting numerous documentaries, music videos, films, and created work for Specialized Bicycles, Yahoo Inc., FCB-West, Hal Riney, & BBDO. Two films finished at Metropolis also gained Academy Award nominations; Promises (2001), and Weather Underground (2002). While at Metropolis Bennett also directed/produced/edited 2 documentary films of his own; Burning Man "Where's The Fire?" (1998), and Haiti: Harvest of Hope (1996)
While in Austin, TX for 8 years, Herbert created works for Ballet Austin, wrote & edited two documentary films for Discovery Channel: In the Shadow of The Blade (2003), and An Ocean Away (2006). He also began an 18-year long documentary project along with Chris Furbee called: Huntington's Dance (2014) that premiered at Slamdance and won the Audience Award.
Now in Los Angeles, Bennett landed a job at A. Smith Co. editing for a highly-acclaimed music-documentary series Unsung for TVOne. He edited 36 episodes about; Gil Scott-Heron, Lou Rawls, Kool Moe Dee, Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony, The Whispers, The Goodie Mob, Tupac Shakur, and others. Unsung has won staggering 7 NAACP Awards for: Best News and Information Series. In 2022 Herbert is on staff at CBS Network News in Los Angeles working out of Radford Studios, Burbank.
Bennett gained interest in television when a cable-TV provider gave Castro Valley High School a functioning TV channel. After learning to edit video in high school, Herbert went to College of San Mateo to further his studies in television, film, radio, and engineering. Prior to graduating, at age 20, he began working as a news editor at NBC affiliate KRON-TV, San Francisco. There, he won two Emmy Awards for news editing. At KRON he met documentary filmmaker Mark Kitchell who was directing the film, "Berkeley In The 60's" (1990). He became the assistant-editor on the film which garnered an Academy Award nomination.
He then began editing for CBS Network News in SF working for The Evening News, 48 Hours, & Sunday Morning, This Morning, and other programs. In 1994, Herbert founded Metropolis Editorial Post House in San Francisco in the Embarcadero area. There, cutting numerous documentaries, music videos, films, and created work for Specialized Bicycles, Yahoo Inc., FCB-West, Hal Riney, & BBDO. Two films finished at Metropolis also gained Academy Award nominations; Promises (2001), and Weather Underground (2002). While at Metropolis Bennett also directed/produced/edited 2 documentary films of his own; Burning Man "Where's The Fire?" (1998), and Haiti: Harvest of Hope (1996)
While in Austin, TX for 8 years, Herbert created works for Ballet Austin, wrote & edited two documentary films for Discovery Channel: In the Shadow of The Blade (2003), and An Ocean Away (2006). He also began an 18-year long documentary project along with Chris Furbee called: Huntington's Dance (2014) that premiered at Slamdance and won the Audience Award.
Now in Los Angeles, Bennett landed a job at A. Smith Co. editing for a highly-acclaimed music-documentary series Unsung for TVOne. He edited 36 episodes about; Gil Scott-Heron, Lou Rawls, Kool Moe Dee, Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony, The Whispers, The Goodie Mob, Tupac Shakur, and others. Unsung has won staggering 7 NAACP Awards for: Best News and Information Series. In 2022 Herbert is on staff at CBS Network News in Los Angeles working out of Radford Studios, Burbank.
