Joe Posner

Director, Fire-Works Film

Brooklyn, NY US

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10-time emmy-losing innovator in non-fiction film & video

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Joe is a filmmaker, motion designer, musician, and creative leader building his independent studio Fire-Works Film. He's best known for co-founding Vox Video in 2014, building their award-winning YouTube channel and creating Emmy-nominated streaming series like Level Playing Field on HBO, and Explained on Netflix under a range of titles from Multimedia Director to Head of Video and EP. He also was Semafor's Head of Video, a 2023 New America Fellow. Before that, created animation for documentary films such as Freakonomics, If a Tree Falls, and Point and Shoot.

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