Bob Sarles
Bob Sarles (born February 12, 1957) is a film & television editor, producer & director based in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Biography
Bob Sarles began making films in 8mm and Super8, and videos on half inch reel to reel video in the early 1970s as a teen in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York. He received his Bachelors Degree in Broadcasting and Film from Boston University, where he co-produced and edited the short documentary Fantastic. Sarles spent time at UCLA's graduate film school before moving to San Francisco, where he began his professional career as a film editor and later founded his own production company Ravin' Films, Inc.
Sarles co-edited the Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning 1994 documentary mini-series Moon Shot and the 1999 ABC documentary The Story of Fathers & Sons. He edited three of the first four seasons of the MTV's ground breaking reality television series The Real World. He has edited award winning music videos for top rock, rap and country artists such as ZZ Top's 1984 MTV Best Group Video for Legs and Green Day's 1994 MTV Best Group Video nomination for Longview.