Bob Sarles is an American documentary filmmaker, film editor and radio host based in San Francisco.
16 Facts About Bob Sarles
1.
2.
Bob Sarles is an American radio host, documentary filmmaker and a Primetime Emmy nominated film and television editor.
3.
Bob Sarles was admitted to and spent one semester attending UCLA's graduate film school before taking an indefinite leave of absence in order to move to San Francisco, where he began his professional career as a film editor.
4.
Bob Sarles initially began working on documentaries, corporate and industrial films as an assistant editor and editor, eventually working on the editorial crews of independent and major feature films as an apprentice film editor, assistant film editor and sound editor, while taking jobs editing music videos, commercials and educational films.
5.
In 1986 Bob Sarles founded his own film production company, Ravin' Films, which was incorporated in 2010.
6.
Bob Sarles operates his production company with his longtime filmmaking partner Christina Keating, who is his wife.
7.
Bob Sarles edited award-winning music videos for a number of top rock, rap and country artists including ZZ Top's 1984 MTV Best Group Video Legs which was co-edited with Sim Sadler and received best editing nominations from the MTV Video Music Awards, The Billboard Music Video Awards and the American Music Video Awards, and Green Day's video Longview which was nominated for the 1994 MTV Best Group Video.
8.
Bob Sarles edited the zombie horror film The Video Dead, and the feature documentary The True Adventures Of The Real Beverly Hillbillies.
9.
Bob Sarles co-produced and edited the feature documentary film Wrestling With Satan.
10.
Bob Sarles was a producer and editor of VH1's Behind The Music and was a consulting producer on the documentary television series San Francisco Sounds: A Place in Time and the PBS documentary Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story.
11.
Bob Sarles directed and edited films that are on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Experience Music Project in Seattle, and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis.
12.
Bob Sarles co-directed and edited the feature documentary Born In Chicago which premiered on the UK cable channel SkyArts and screened at the prestigious Palm Springs International Film Festival.
13.
Bob Sarles has directed music videos for Otis Redding and Jorma Kaukonen.
14.
Bob Sarles directed and edited the music video for the Roger McGuinn penned song "Ballad of Easy Rider" as recorded by John Hurlbut and Jorma Kaukonen for their album The River Flows.
15.
Bob Sarles co-produced, directed and edited the triple platinum selling DVD boxed set Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live for Time Life.
16.
Bob Sarles directed and edited the DVDs Fly Jefferson Airplane and John Lee Hooker: Come See About Me for Eagle Rock Entertainment.