A PORTFOLIO OF WORK SINCE 2005!

I'm a filmmaker and digital creator whom The New York Times, a long time ago, proclaimed "speaks to the web the way Doolittle does to animals"

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I'm the interviewing voice and creator of Vogue’s 73 Questions, the interviewer of Billie Eilish's annual "One Year Apart" series, and the guy who asked Elizabeth Holmes if she can tell him a secret in that HBO documentary.

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In 2024 I directed my first feature film “Federer: Twelve Final Days” for Amazon Studios on the retirement of Roger Federer from tennis, alongside director Asif Kapadia. I originally pitched the project as private home videos for Roger's family and friends, but showed him a 63 minute edit and persuaded him to release it as a film.

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I currently run Studio Sabia, a full service production company alongside ex-Vox veteran Greg Gordon, acting as creative directors and prodco for YouTube, Audible, Amex, Bose, NatGeo, Pinterest, Carnegie Hall and pro-bono for UNICEF. 

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In a previous life I was the SVP of Creative Development at Conde Nast Entertainment (2014-2020) where I led the conception, development and execution of franchises and formats across the portfolio of brands. Leading an evolving team of some of the best digital creators around, our formats grew Conde brands' YouTube audience from 1.5M to 46M subscribers, reaching over 550M monthly organic views, even beating Buzzfeed.

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In an even more previous life, I was an independent creator, digital video remixer, TED Talk giver, co-host with Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing TV on Virgin America, and co-founder of YouTube music collective CDZA (which received one of the first ever Content Innovation Program grants from YouTube, and performed at YouTube Music Awards alongside Spike Jonze as creative director).

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I've been an advisor to MasterClass, Outlier.org, Tonebase Piano, and sit on the Moth's Programming board.

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I love music. Especially classical piano. I co-own the first ever documents management company in the Georgian Republic with my two best friends, one of which I am in a lifelong competition to visit more countries.

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I have very vivid spatial synesthesia.

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Please do not confuse me with this nursery rhyme author. You can email me at joe[at]studiosabia.com

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