Robert Krisch has been cutting film and video projects in NY and LA for the past two decades.  

​Rob began his editing career immersed in the film program at the University of Texas at Austin in the late 90’s, soaking in lectures from the likes of Rick Linklater and Robert Rodriguez.  He soon started directing and editing several award-winning student short films.  Shortly thereafter, he headed to New York City to start his professional career.

NEW YORK CITY
In New York, Rob assisted on feature films such as Zoolander, Y Tu Mama Tambien, as well as hit TV shows like Sex and the City and Oz.  Rob soon moved from assistant to editor at the creative editorial boutique Northern Lights Post (MTV’s Cribs, Bravo’s Inside the Actors’ Studio).  At NLP, Rob cut a variety of projects including commercials for Saatchi and Saatchi and longformat pieces for Bravo, IFC, and WE.  But the freelance world would soon call.  

​Since going freelance in 2003, Rob has cut over 250 long format TV shows for channels such as Bravo, MTV, Disney, Ovation, TLC, the Food Network, WE, CMT, Travel, ESPN, IFC and others.  His projects have earned a total of 21 Emmy nominations including 11 Emmy awards.  In 2007, Rob was nominated for an Emmy for editing Everyday Italian, and in 2008 he helped accept the show’s Emmy award for best lifestyle program.

LOS ANGELES
​Since moving to Los Angeles in 2006, Rob has had a chance to work with some great production companies like Triage Entertainment (Iron Chef), and Actual Reality Pictures, run by famed documentarian RJ Cutler (War Room).  Rob has also had the privilege to work with some very gifted filmmakers and on screen talent including Teri Hatcher, Giada de Laurentiis, and Disney’s The Muppets.  In 2017, he edited Earworm, a horror short that screened at over 60 film festivals, earning multiple best editing nominations. In 2018, Rob took the helm as writer/director/actor for the award winning short film The Crows of Culver.   In addition to his film work, Rob is currently in production for the second part of his Culver City Trilogy - the graphic novel Culver City Gods.  Rob continues to edit, write, and direct film and video projects in Southern California, where he lives with his wife, son, and daughter.