Jason Rosenfield, A.C.E.   [ resume ]

A three-time Emmy Award winner, Jason Rosenfield began his career on stage as a dancer, and discovered filmmaking while performing in an avant-garde New York theatre scene that fused music, video, dance, and performance art. He apprenticed as an editor in commercials and long-form documentaries before Robert Altman asked him to edit his ensemble comedy Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Both Emmys were earned on HBO’s documentary anthology series America Undercover. Another documentary, Blues Highway, was nominated for an Oscar.

Jason has earned numerous writing and directing awards in a variety of fiction and nonfiction genres, including The Kingdom, a narrative short film he created for the World Wildlife Fund that was screened at the United Nations, and the fictional On Nature’s Trail, a children’s series for National Geographic. He is also known for his key contributions to the development and production of two groundbreaking primetime verite series, RJ Cutler’s American High, and Dick Wolf and Bill Guttentag’s Law & Order: Crime & Punishment. In the last few years his work has ranged from Showtime’s Iraq-themed documentary Semper Fi to Fox’s improvisational comedy Free Ride. Additional show honors he has contributed to include two Emmy nominations, two R.F. Kennedy Awards, a DGA Award, a W.C. Handy Award, a Peabody Award and numerous prizes at U.S. and international film festivals.

In 2001, Jason was elected to membership in American Cinema Editors, an honorary society of distinguished editors. In 2007, he was re-elected to a second term on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, where he has served on the Governors Award Committee, the Engineering Award Committee and the Emerging Media Task Force, a select group of Governors and industry leaders charged with redefining the Academy’s mandate as television morphs into the digital age.