Joseph Consentino


Joseph Consentino 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.
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.
He is also noted for directing the 2007 documentary Baghdad Diary, along with and .