Jason Russell Biography

Jason Radical Russell is a co-founder of Invisible Children and also its chief creative officer. After graduating in 2002 from the University of Southern California's Film School with a degree in cinema production he led a trip to East and Central Africa and found himself in the middle of a decade-long war. He made a promise to a boy named Jacob to help end that war returned home to make a film abut it which then turned into a non-profit still in pursuit of that promise today. Russell has co-directed a documentary seen by millions sold his musical Moxie to Steven Spielberg and served as the assistant to the director for Disney's blockbuster Step Up 2. Russell's experience extends beyond the screen however as he has directed and choreographed over 20 theatrical stage productions and performed in over 100 different shows. He is also the director of Kony 2012 a short documentary film that went viral in the beginning of March 2012. In the first two weeks it was launched it gained more than 83 million views on YouTube and became the subject of intensive media scrutiny and criticism. Its subject is the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony his alleged war crimes and the movement to bring him to the International Criminal Court.

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