Tim Sternberg started working in the editing rooms of Francis Ford Coppola's legendary American Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco while still in high school. After moving to New York he has worked in positions as diverse as sound effects recordist on Nora Ephron's "Sleepless in Seattle" and Robert Benton's "The Human Stain", re-editing the 1992 Academy Award winning "Mediterraneo" for US release, and acting as a script consultant for American Zoetrope, the Independent Feature Project, and Channel Four Films amongst others. Most recently he worked as the picture editor on Coppola's "Megalopolis", music editor on Milos Forman's forthcoming "Goya's Ghosts" and the recent Silver Docs Rx Grand Jury Award Winning "The Blood of Yingzhou District" directed by Ruby Yang. "Salim Baba," shot just over four days with Francisco Bello in Kolkata, India is his first film as a director.