Jeff Turboff - Editor - New York City



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The Big Picture
Editor, Director, Writer, Shooter

I'm a filmmaker with 15 years of experience in the business.

I have been an editor for 12 of those years and have been directing films for about 8 years.

I also have a bachelor of science degree in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas in Austin.

I have written and/or directed about 20 short films and am currently in various stages of writing feature length screenplays.

My first two screenplays have each placed in the writemovies.com competitions.

I have edited many televised documentaries in the last 12 years including
   Eye on the Hurricane
   Al-Qaeda's Navy
   The History of Poker
   Angel of Death: Killer Nurse
   The War Against al Qaeda
   Fashion Then & Now
   TV Land Moguls
   US Army Rangers; Best of the Best
   Rites of Autumn
   Top Five
   Date Patrol
and many others, with subject matter ranging from sports to fashion to true crime to TV history to food to nature to music and to 'reality' shows.

My editing work has been seen on many major networks including
The Learning Channel, ESPN, NBC, ABC, VH1, Outdoor Life Network, The History Channel and others.

I am currently a perma-lance editor at ABC News' Nightline, seen weeknights at 11:35 Eastern.

Besides documentaries, I've done promos and commercials, industrials, short and feature-length narrative fiction, music video . . .
there is virtually no type of programming that I have not, cannot, or will not, do.
I am flexible enough to be able to adapt my skills to the job at hand, whatever the needs.

I also am a cameraman, accustomed to working with the Sony DSR-PD150, but am also willing to work in conjunction with your chosen director of photography if you have one or want me to hire one.

In 2005 I won an Emmy for my work with ABC's World News Tonight on a piece called "The Broken Pension Promise".
I was also nominated in 2004 and in 2006 for my work on The History Channel's "The 9-11 Commission Report"
and ABC News's coverage of Iraq's Election, respectively.

I've worked on countless pieces airing on ABC's "Nightline", "World News Tonight", and "Good Morning America".

I shot and edited a corporate video for Mission: Allergy
which was distributed to about 3500 doctors nationwide.

I directed a 20-minute no-budget short film for Stonestreet Studios, an NYU acting conservatory.

In 2006, I edited the award-winning feature film "The Pack" starring Lucie Arnaz.
In 2003 I edited the award-winning short "Get The Script To Woody Allen"





Biography
Jeff Turboff has been involved in TV and film in one way or another since the mid-1980s, when he began making programs for the local cable access channel in Austin, Texas.

After receiving his degree in radio, television, and film from the University of Texas in 1993, Jeff worked for three years as a production assistant at the bicoastal commercial production company OneSuch Films before striking out on his own as a freelance editor.

His editing experience has ranged from documentaries to fashion, sports, music, news, talk show segments, commercials, and promos, with credits on NBC, Fox, ESPN, Cinemax, VH-1, and other major networks.

Jeff has also directed over a dozen digital video shorts as a member of the New York filmmaker’s collective Quick Flicks, and has shot video for several projects including Eric Zechman’s "Unknown Man, Unknown Woman", Beth Ann Dailey’s "Exploring the Human-Animal Bond" and The Learning Channel’s "Date Patrol". In 2001 and 2002, Jeff shot his own documentary, "MOD", which is currently shelved.

In 2007, Jeff took Robert McKee's screenwriting seminar, "Story" and is writing screenplays, with several in the pipeline. Two of his scripts have placed in the semifinalists of the writemovies.com contests.




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