I'm a freelance film editor in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10+ years of feature documentary experience. I'm at home with short or long format projects. I specialize in long form story-telling and post-production workflow.
About
Jeff Boyette has been working in the film and video industry in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007. Jeff began as an assistant and eventually staff editor at Remedy Editorial in San Francisco. After going freelance in 2013 Jeff has devoted his career to editing feature documentary films. His work has aired on HBO, PBS, Netflix and Amazon Prime, screened in film festivals around the world, and has earned two regional Emmy nominations. Jeff recently edited the late director James Redford’s final film, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. The biopic about the renowned author premiered at Sundance in 2021 followed by a broadcast premiere on PBS American Masters and a streaming release on Netflix. Previously Jeff worked on numerous other short and feature length projects with Redford including Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution(2017, HBO) and numerous projects with executive producer/director Owsley Brown and producer/director Anne Flatté including the feature documentaries River City Drumbeat(2019, DocNYC, PBS, Amazon Prime) and Serenade For Haiti(2016, DocNYC). Jeff also edited for Mark Decena, award winning director and founder of Kontent Films, on a number of short projects and two feature documentaries, Not Without Us(2016) and Watershed: Exploring A New Water Ethic For The New West(2012). Jeff is a lifetime resident of California now living happily with his wife and two kids in Alameda. Outside the edit suite Jeff embraces the outdoors however he can, whether that be road cycling, hiking, birding, camping, paddle boarding or running.
