About
Jeff is a documentary filmmaker and journalist based in New York City. In recent years, he has collaborated on feature-length documentaries for HBO and PBS Frontline, and contributed reporting to the New York Times.
Jeff learned to shoot and produce working alongside renowned documentarians Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill at DCTV, New York’s most honored community media center.
In 2008, through a KWD Project for Peace Grant, Jeff received funds to equip a media lab on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Southern Mexico with video and audio equipment and train a small indigenous youth group to make short films. The youth group and their work is featured at the end of his award-winning undergraduate thesis film, which received the Betty and Harry S. Shapiro Endowed Award in Anthropology at Brandeis University and is distributed internationally by DER. Jeff’s work continues to be informed by a strong background in community media and non-fiction story-telling.
He lives in Hamilton Heights with his wife, Laís and his son, Martin.