Joseph Consentino

Joseph Consentino (February 6, 1939 - January 19, 2018) was a director/producer most famous for the TV Show Big Blue Marble and for co-founding the New England Collegiate Baseball League with former Major League Baseball All-Star George Foster in 1993. The NECBL is a collegiate summer baseball league. [1]

Consentino graduated from St. John's University and the Columbia School of Journalism with degrees in Journalism, and shortly thereafter he worked as a photojournalist for The Saturday Evening Post, Look Magazine and Sports Illustrated.

Wanting to tell stories through documentaries along with his wife Sandra Consentino, also a film editor and producer, they created Consentino Films Inc. and Big Bear Films, LLC in December 1987. They won several Emmy Awards, and were nominated for an Academy Award. [2]

He is also noted for directing the 2007 documentary Baghdad Diary, along with Mouthpiece: Voice for the Accused and Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story.

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