Hart Faber has been in production for 30 years and has recently edited
biographies, documentaries, entertainment features, news magazines and
promos for: ABC, A&E, CBS, CNN, DSC, NBC, TLC,and VH-1. He has lent his
voice and pen for use in indie films, field segments, and news
magazines.
In 2011 I was on the ABC news team that earned 2 Murrow Awards for
outstanding coverage of Gabby Giffords' shooting and the raid on Osama
Bin Laden.
Hart was proud that two programs he worked on were honored with Emmys
in 2007. He was one of three editors on the BBC & NBC co-production of
the two hour special on DSC, Global Warming: What You Need to Know,
with Tom Brokaw Hart was the editor of an episode of NOW on PBS, Health
Care Franchising in Kenya.
Hart was born in New York City's Greenwich Village in 1964 to Elise and
Ron Faber, an actor. Although Hart enjoyed art and followed his father
by acting in a couple of plays and low-budget films, his background in
science and architecture while attending Stuyvesant High School guided
his future.
In 1983 at the age of 18, Hart started his career in production as a
gofer, suitably for a science and medical education film company. He
merged the artistic and technical while learning animation & graphic
design, lighting & set design, and of course editing.
By 1987 Hart was fortunate to be with Chiasma Productions as the Senior
Asst. Editor and Post-production Supervisor of the jazz documentary, A
Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba, which featured Dizzy's first
visit to Cuba in many years. He recounts his roots in Afro-Cuban music
while playing with Arturo Sanduval at the International Jazz Festival
of 1985. This propelled Hart forward, taking editing and all technical
aspects of film production to the next level. Cinema became his
challenge of choice, and by 1991 Hart had worked his way up to Project
Designer, Senior Editor and Assistant Director of the award winning
Chiasma Productions.
Hart branched out in 1994 with the indie Miramax film, Lie Down With
Dogs, a farce following a young man's summer in Provincetown, MA. He
voiced an unseen guest house owner and wrote lyrics to comedic songs in
the film. He edited it the old-fashioned way, in film, and supervised
the animation and opticals. This inspired him to go digital with a
small Avid suite, Water Under The Bridge, in the Film Center Building.
He continued to edit indie feature films such as Blazin', a martial
arts romance-action-drama, or Romeo & Juliet in the hood.
After his fourth feature film Hart transitioned into TV in 1998 by
editing and producing for Executive Forum, a financial talk show hosted
by Edwin Newman and later by Apollo astronaut, Capt. Jim Lovell. The
show centered around lively discussions between CEOs and included a
field segment relevant to the topic of the week. He began writing,
narrating and producing some of these segments. By 1999 his love of
documentary and long-form programs led Hart to the launch of MSNBC's
Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer. When 9/11 occurred Hart edited
specials for MSNBC Reports, and covered news stories between 2001 and
2002. He also utilized his roots in design to create show opens for
many topical specials and weekly news programs. He wrote and produced
some of these show open and tease packages.
In 2002 long format wound down at MSNBC, so Hart went freelance. In the
last few years, TV has been a satisfying and prolific medium for Hart.
The process of crafting a story by interweaving interviews and footage
of people's lives or events, is still a great pleasure. The strict
adherence to the ethical responsibilities of journalism and the
challenge maintaining an accessible tale despite it's inherent
complexity, are what keeps Hart focused and engaged. He feels a sense
of pride in being both effective and accurate in presenting a journey
to the audience, whether it's thirty seconds or sixty minutes. The last
few years have brought new challenges to the industry and the world,
but we will rise to them and continue to bring people the world.
