Jo Roy is a director, choreographer, and editor of bold, high-concept films that, together, have amassed over 100 million views. She has worked with top brands such as Coca-Cola, and she has collaborated with Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar-winning entities. Her expertise has earned her top industry awards like a Cannes Lion and many Vimeo Staff Picks, and her music video direction helped make history by breaking a Billboard record.
Jo is known for her daring and hugely ambitious ideas, such as Corpus and the Wandering, a short film made out of 50,000 iPhone videos of her body, and Meg Myers’ Running Up That Hill, an animation compiling 3202 pages hand-colored by children. Her interdisciplinary training combines a lifelong, intensive study of dance with technical filmmaking facility, resulting in a rare instinct for natural performance and intentional use of movement. When she isn’t making films, Jo likes to read, learn about foraging and sustainability, paddleboard, and collect flight suits.
NOWNESS, Capitol Records, Sony Music, National Film Board of Canada, Special Olympics Canada, Coca-Cola, Jimmy Kimmel Live, 300 Records, Mascot Records, DanceOn, Vulf Records, Fueled by Ramen, Secretly Canadian, Vivo Mobile, Marriott, Editorialist, David Webb Jewelry, Microsoft, Mountain Dew, MyLABBox, Steven Van Zandt, Panic! At The Disco, Jesse McCartney, Tori Kelly, Meg Myers, Beth Hart, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Lynn Harrell, Big Gigantic, Chase Rice, Bea Miller, Joey Dosik, Vulfpeck, Skylar Spence, Jez Dior and Au/Ra.
CLIENTS:
Ad Age Editor’s Pick, Shots Editor’s Pick, Animation Magazine, Lürzer’s Archive Spot of the Week, Little Black Book, Campaigns of the World, The Drum, The Grocer Ad of the Week, People Magazine, British Council, Good Morning America, CNN Create, CBC, Aeon, Dance Magazine, Booooooom, Directors Notes, Film School Rejects, Colossal, Animation World Network, Cool Hunting, Vulture, The Guardian, MTV, NPR, Refinery29, PopCrush, Boing Boing, Mindsparkle Mag, Teen Vogue, Final Boss, Laughing Squid, Screen Rant, Billboard, iHeartRadio, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter.
PRESS:
Bronze Cannes Lion - Film
Grand Prix Campaign Winner - El Ojo de Iberoamérica
Gold - Argentine Creative Circle
Gold Film - Dossier Argentine Pencil
Thrillist's Best Music Videos of 2019
IMVDb's Best of 2019
Vimeo Staff Pick
Runner-Up Director of the Year - Genero
Shiny Awards (withdrawn) - Special Mention
AWARDS:
Festival international du film d’animation d'Annecy, New Orleans International Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Brooklyn International Film Festival, Hollyshorts Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival, Edmonton International Film Festival, Dance Camera West, New York Internationall Children’s Film Festival, 180 Amsterdam Shiny Awards (withdrawn), American Dance Festival, Sommets du cinema d’animation, Animaphix New Contemporary Languages Film Festival, Milwaukee International Film Festival, Athens International Film + Video Festival, Albuquerque Film and Music Festival, National Film Festival for Talented Youth: Best of 2016, Rahway International Film Festival, Los Angeles Music Video Festival, New Filmmakers LA, Physical Cinema Festival, Trés Court Film Festival, Milwaukee International Film Festival, Sledgehammer at W+K London, Centre culturel canadien Paris.
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