Directory Profile

A winner of three Emmy Awards, Jason Rosenfield’s resume as film editor, director, producer, writer, and creative consultant includes an Oscar nomination, a Peabody, DGA and R.F. Kennedy Awards, and collaborations with directors ranging from Hollywood legend Robert Altman to three-time Oscar-winning documentarian Mark Jonathan Harris. A faculty member at USC’s famed School of Cinematic Arts and producer of professional development seminars for the Television Academy and American Cinema Editors [ACE], he continues to mentor a widening international network of emerging screenwriters and filmmakers through AFI, Film Independent’s Global Media Makers program, Stowe Story Labs’ screenwriting workshops and the American Film Showcase. 

An excerpt from Rosenfield’s craft-based memoir Everything Has Meaning: Confessions of a Film Editor, appeared in the 2021 first quarter issue of ACE’s CinemaEditor. His essays have been published in industry periodicals CineMontage and CinemaEditor. His most recent essay, Subject to Change, appears in Editing for the Screen, Focal Press/Routledge’s newestedition of the PERFORM book series. Rosenfield has served as Associate Director of the ACE Board, three terms as Governor of the Television Academy and almost two decades on its Picture Editor and Documentary Peer Group Executive Committees.  

Highly regarded for his skills with story, character and subtext, Rosenfield is a sought-after creative consultant on independent features and documentaries, both domestic and international. He is currently developing a feature-length documentary and, along with filmmaker and educator Peter Hawley, creating a series of online master classes and book based on his years of teaching editing and cinematic storytelling “from the inside out.”

His website can be found at jasonrosenfield.com.