JEFFREY FRIEDMAN

Jeffrey began his career in New York City as a child actor off-Broadway. He began his film training in the editing rooms of such notable films as The Exorcist (1973), Raging Bull (1980) and the Oscar-winning documentary Marjoe (1972), apprenticing to some of the most highly respected filmmakers in the industry. He became an associate film editor on the NBC documentary series Lifeline, and on the 1983 feature film Never Cry Wolf; he has edited numerous television documentaries, including Faces of the Enemy (1985) for PBS, which he also co-directed. He first worked with Rob as a consultant on The Times of Harvey Milk, and again as editor on the PBS series We The People (1987), after which they decided to work together as a filmmaking team. Jeffrey teaches editing at California College of the Arts and documentary filmmaking in the graduate program at Stanford University. He continues to edit, and consults on films, including Freeheld, this year's Oscar-winniing short documentary.