ABOUT
Technology changes faster than people’s ability to trust it.
For 20 years I’ve built at the convergence of narrative, experience, design, commerce, and system: the studios, environments, the craft and the engines in which audiences commit; the moments where fans become fanatics, when engagement becomes the repeated story told time and time again.
NBCUniversal · Amazon · WarnerMedia · Ogilvy
Early career: high craft documentary, commercial, film, and experiential director at production companies across New York and Los Angeles; film editor, motion designer, and VFX artist at Crew Cuts and Saturday Night Live.
Visual Studies, Computer Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, and Law & Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
200+ awards, including Cannes Lions, the RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation, One Show, D&AD, Webbys, and a Guinness World Record which has absolutely been broken since.
Art, technology, and craft in the service of human story, brand, and commerce.
NYC. LA. And everywhere else.
james at jamessouthworth dot com
917.496.8644
