Jeff Consiglio is a renowned film editor who has garnered an impressive array of accolades, including an Academy Award win, a second Academy Award nomination, Emmy awards, a Grammy, a Peabody, and multiple film festival awards. His work as an editor has been recognized with a nomination for the Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Editing for the HBOMax feature "LFG" and a Special Jury Award for Editing at the SXSW Film Festival for "Twinsters". He has also 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 various film festivals.
Jeff's journey in film began at Virginia Tech University, where he studied film in the extremely small film department with only a handful of fellow students and one key professor, Jerry Scheeler, who became a primary influence on Jeff's film career and a 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 Katy Perry, as well as film and television main title sequences and film trailers. He then began a multiple film collaboration with directors Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine, including the Oscar-winning "Inocente" and the Peabody-winning "Life According To Sam".
In addition to his editing work, Jeff has produced on several documentary films and consulted on many more. He has also been a guest lecturer and seminar presenter at schools, universities, and festivals. Jeff and cinematographer Alexandre Naufel have formed madeinhollywoodusa, a collaboration that has created award-winning short film art, a short documentary series, and NFT art.
