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A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015)

Geof Bartz was the Supervising Editor for HBO Documentary Films for 25 years (1998 - 2023).

Bartz began his career as an assistant editor on the 1969 CBS special "Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America" and went on to edit, or supervise the editing of, more than 100 non-fiction films, among them the classic sports documentary "Pumping Iron."

Bartz was the co-producer and supervising editor of NBC's Emmy winning series "Lifeline" (1979) and he co-produced and edited the 20th Century Fox feature "Stripper (1984).

Bartz has edited nine films that have been nominated for Academy Awards.

In 2000 and 2001, he cut two short documentaries, "King Gimp" and "Big Mama", that won back-to-back Oscars. Then in 2015 and 2016, "Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1" and "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" also won consecutive Academy