Jamie King (producer)

Jamie King
Occupation Film director, producer, and writer
Notable work Steal This Film, VODO

Jamie King (producer) is an award-winning[1] filmmaker, writer, and activist best known for directing Steal This Film,[2] a documentary that observes intellectual property in favour of P2P filesharing.[3][4][5] He is also the founder of VODO, an innovative online crossmedia distribution project for film, games, books, and music.[6][7][8] Ted Hope described King as one of the "great free thinkers of Indie film."[9][10][11] He is currently host of the podcast STEAL THIS SHOW, produced in conjunction with TorrentFreak.[12]

Career

Jamie King studied at the University of Southampton, where he received a PhD for his thesis, "The Cultural Construction of Cyberspace". He was an original member of the Mute editorial team and served as both Information politics editor and deputy editor. In 2003, he served as convenor of the Counter-Summit to the World Summit on Information Society.[13][14][15] During this time, he also published a column on the development of online culture for ITN and Channel 4 News.[16]

In 2006 he produced Steal This Film, one of the most downloaded film documentaries to date.[17][18][19] In the following year, he produced and directed Steal This Film 2 and Steal This Film “Spectrial Edition” (also called Steal This Film 2.5).[20][21]

In 2009 he founded VODO, a media distribution, crowdfunding and attention-sourcing network for independent artists.[22] VODO has distributed prominent projects including The Yes Men Fix The World, Pioneer One, and Zeitgeist. VODO has also generated millions of dollars in revenue using free-sharing distribution and voluntary payment models.[23]

Jamie King has also delivered lectures and keynotes at various events and top-tier Universities worldwide.[24][25] He has published fiction,[26] academic articles,[27][28] as well as numerous articles in international media including The Times, The Guardian, the Telegraph, and others.[29][30][31]

He served as executive producer of the BitTorrent-only TV show titled Pioneer One.[32] Part of his film work has been featured in the Oscar-nominated film The Internet's Own Boy.[33] King currently hosts a podcast produced in conjunction with TorrentFreak titled Steal This Show. He also continues to work in other peer-to-peer distribution-related projects.[34][35][36]

Filmography

Film Year Role
Steal This Film 2006 Director
Steal This Film 2 2007 Director
In Guantanamo 2009 Producer
Dark Fibre 2009 Co-director
Patent Absurdity 2010 Producer
Republic of Soya 2011 Director

See also

References

  1. ↑ "La terza edizione dei Roma Fiction Fest si terrà nella capitale dal 6 all'11 luglio prossimi". Televisionando.
  2. ↑ "Steal This Film". Top Documentaries.
  3. ↑ "Steal This Film – Features". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ "Steal This Film II". Britdoc.
  5. ↑ "Piracy May Be An Indie Filmmaker's Best Friend: Discuss.". IndieWire.
  6. ↑ "Questions With…VODO Founder Jamie King". GigaOM.
  7. ↑ "Meet the Team". VODO.
  8. ↑ "Meet the Team". Fast Company.
  9. ↑ "21 Great Free Thinkers of Indie Film". The Wrap.
  10. ↑ "Documentaries in the downloading age". The Guardian.
  11. ↑ "Dazed went to check out the festival of new cinema and digital culture in Liverpool". Dazed Digital.
  12. ↑ "Interview: Cory Doctorow". Light Speed Magazine.
  13. ↑ Hintz, Arne (2009). Civil Society Media and Global Governance: Intervening Into the World Summit on the Information Society. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 164.
  14. ↑ "Terror is a Network". Meta Mute.
  15. ↑ "Technofile: Political Correction". The Independent.
  16. ↑ "Coincidence of bomb exercises?". Channel 4.
  17. ↑ "Rethinking the public/virtual sphere: the problem with participation". Sage Journals.
  18. ↑ "Sian's been very naughty". New Statesman.
  19. ↑ "Pirates of the Multiplex". Vanityfair.
  20. ↑ "Distribución digital de películas: compromiso tecnológico, transgresión institucional y experiencia mediática en el estreno en línea de Steal This Film II". L'Atalante.
  21. ↑ Kerrigan, Finola (2009). Film Marketing. Routledge. p. 208.
  22. ↑ "Alt.Doc.Funding". Point of View Magazine.
  23. ↑ "Pirates of the Multiplex". Vanityfair.
  24. ↑ "The Blur Banff proposal". Knowledge Ecology.
  25. ↑ Gratz, Joseph. "Reform in the "Brave Kingdom": Alternative Compensation Systems for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing". Minnesota Journal of Law. 6 (1). Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  26. ↑ "Technofile: Political Correction". The Independent.
  27. ↑ "Bug planet: Frontier myth in Starship Troopers". Research Gate.
  28. ↑ "The (Un)Lucky dragon: monstrous futures". Science Direct.
  29. ↑ "Google Tries to Make It Harder to Download Illegally". New York Magazine.
  30. ↑ "Google Tries to Make It Harder to Download Illegally". New York Magazine.
  31. ↑ "Techno-orientalism, digital fetishism". Eye Magazine.
  32. ↑ "Bittorrent Only TV Show Becomes Huge Success". TorrentFreak.
  33. ↑ Montro, Alexandre (2016). The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
  34. ↑ "Dazed went to check out the festival of new cinema and digital culture in Liverpool". Dazed.
  35. ↑ "Crossmedia Toronto unveils 26-speaker lineup". Playback.
  36. ↑ "Interview: Cory Doctorow". LightSpeed Magazine.

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