bio

photo by jules bianchi

Garret's recent documentary editing work includes the features My Perestroika (Sundance 2010), Ready, Set, Bag! (LA Film Festival 2008), and the upcoming HBO series My American Dream. He also cut the award-winning fiction feature Olympia (Slamdance, Sundance Channel) and has worked on a variety of short form projects including movie trailers, commercials, and television promos. He was a 2009 Sundance Documentary Editing and Storytelling Lab Fellow.

As a director, his short comedies, The List and For Food, and short documentaries, 4-Cylinder 400 and Shoot the Freak, have played many festivals including the Hamptons, Hawaii, Nantucket, Woodstock, Williamstown, and Newport Beach. In 2005, The Independent magazine chose him as one of their Top Short Filmmakers.

He received his B.A. in Film Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara where his experimental film, 1-24, won the Bruce Corwin Award for Best Cinematography and Best Student Short Film. He later trained for two years at the Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting Conservatory in New York City.

He loves teaching and was the Program Director for the Nantucket Film Festival's Teen Filmmaking Program and has mentored with Brooklyn's Reel Works Film Lab.