Detachment Film GEOFFREY RICHMAN

GEOFFREY RICHMAN

Geoffrey Richman is the award-winning editor of MURDERBALL, SICKO, and THE COVE – the 2006, 2008, and 2010 Academy Award nominees for Best Feature Documentary. THE COVE went on to win the Academy Award, after becoming the first documentary ever to win all four guild awards (Producing, Directing, Writing, and Editing). At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, Geoffrey was awarded the first-ever Special Jury Prize for Editing for his work on MURDERBALL, which also won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. In the following years, he returned to Sundance with GOD GREW TIRED OF US (Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner), THE COVE (Audience Award winner), THE ORDER OF MYTHS, and PETER AND VANDY.

Other credits include 21 UP AMERICA, IF I DIDN’T CARE, MAY THE BEST MAN WIN, WAINY DAYS, and documentary and reality programming for a variety of networks. He recently finished editing THE VIRGINITY HIT, a Columbia Pictures comedy directed by Andrew Gurland and Huck Botko, and produced by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, which was released in theaters in September.