Joey Dello Russo
Joey Dello Russo
Joey Dello Russo directs and edits documentaries that honor the elegance of the ordinary.
 

Joey Dello Russo is a creative director who
crafts content strategies that resonate and endure.


Bloom: Impact Coaching

BUILDING BETTER FUTURES

The always-on career coaching & mentoring app for everyone, anytime.

Currently building the ethnographic library of lived career experience.

The Heart of Tequila

JOSE CUERVO & TBRAND STUDIO

Reserva de la Familia is the jewel of Jose Cuervo brands. Produced as a paid post by TBrand Studio at The New York Times.

CO+DIRECTOR + EDITOR


MT Copeland

HGTV Meets masterclass

MT Copeland helps you further your career in the building industry with expert-led online education that will make you a better, smarter tradesperson.

Airbnb

BRAND FILMS & COMMERCIALS

From Taiwan to Ethiopia, these travel films go inside the hearts, homes, and hobbies of people around the world.

MasterClass

Trailers & FEATUREs

Legends Werner Herzog, Dr. Jane Goodall, Ken Burns, Annie Leibovitz, and Hans Zimmer impart everything they know.

Deep Brain Stimulation

documentary | freethink media

A neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist control the brain chemistry of a Parkinson's patient before his very own eyes.

  • LEAD EDITOR + WRITER

  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
  • PRODUCERS

  • PRODUCTION MANAGER
  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHERS

  • POST SUPERVISOR
  • FINISHING EDITOR
  • COLORIST
  • SOUND

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • FREETHINK MEDIA
  • ROBERT CHAPMAN-SMITH
  • STEVE SOURYAL
  • YENEE WONDAFRASH
  • DUSTY OAKLEY
  • SEAN SONNENBURG
  • DUSTY OAKLEY
  • MAGGIE LINDER
  • DILLON HAYES
  • NICK VEGA
  • ISAAC HAMMONS


Delusions of Banjer

feature DOCUMENTARY

A documentary about William Blake incarnate:
traveling poet, solo banjoist, and Renaissance intellect, Danny Barnes.

PRODUCER + DIRECTOR + CAMERA + EDITOR


Home Made

documentary | CANNES FILM FEST

In the south of France, a mother raises her non-biological daughter.

DIRECTOR + CINEMATOGRAPHER + EDITOR


The Foraging Chef

DOCUMENTARY | Condé Nast + Bon Appétit

In the deep woods of the Hudson River Valley,
chef Fredrik Berselius forages ingredients for his restaurant, Aska.

  • EDITOR

  • CLIENT
  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • BON APPÉTIT, CONDÉ NAST
  • MATT DUCKOR
  • ALFREDO ALCÁNTARA


Everything in Our Power

DOCUMENTARY | san diego gas & electric

Across San Diego County, meteorologists, firefighters, pilots, and everyday citizens
combat wildfires on the frontlines.

  • EDITOR

  • CLIENT
  • AGENCY
  • PRODUCTION
  • WRITER/PRODUCER
  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • SDG&E
  • MEADS/DURKET
  • LONDON ALLEY
  • SAM HABER
  • DUNCAN SULLIVAN
  • ALEX D. LEVIN


Eventbrite | Chef Melissa King

BRANDED DOCUMENTARY SERIES

EpISODE 1

Inspiration

EPISODE 2

artisans

EpISODE 3

BIG NIGHT

Across the San Francisco Bay Area, culinary artists collaborate on entirely new recipes for one timeless night.

  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER
  • EDITOR

  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
  • ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO
  • KEN FISHER
  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • MARTINA TAM
  • SARAH HOFFMAN


Change.Org

YEAR-IN-REVIEW Film

Democracy never dies when petitions empower people across the globe.

DIRECTOR + EDITOR


Wieden+Kennedy

EXPEDITION Trailer

In the open Pacific, Jack Shimko paddles over 200 miles because fuck cancer.

  • EDITOR

  • CLIENT
  • PRODUCER
  • WRITER
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER
  • SOUND

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • PADDLE2LIVE
  • WIEDEN+KENNEDY
  • JOSEPH CONWAY
  • JEFF WRIGHT
  • JASON ROARK


Get Back ⇄ Stay Back

LITERARY Trailer

A book about milennials who ditch the city for the country, until their Earthly demise.

DIRECTOR + EDITOR


Shaki: Pesky Bee

extended trailer

Controversial anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon assimilates with the largest aborigonal culture in the Amazon.

  • EDITOR

  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • CAITLIN MACHAK
  • ALFREDO ALCANTARA


Breaking

DOCUMENTARY | COR MEDIA

An essay film predicting the Trump presidency long before Fake News.

  • DIRECTOR + EDITOR

  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
  • ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
  • CINEMATOGRAPHERS

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • SCHUYLER HUDAK
  • SILVIA SCANDAR MAHAN
  • ALFREDO ALCANTARA
  • KEN FISHER
  • ALFRED SCHOENINGER


Parking Lots to Paradise

COMMERCIAL | Pepsi films

In Portland OR, locals rip up parking lots, and transform them into urban gardens.

  • DIRECTOR + EDITOR

  • CLIENT
  • AGENCY
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER
  • MUSIC

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • PEPSI
  • MOFILM
  • JASON ROARK
  • JODY CARROLL


The Attunement

fine art film

The beginning, middle, and end, as one.

DIRECTOR + EDITOR


Discovery Channel

SHOW INTRO | WHEN WILL THE WORLD END?

Samuel L. Jackson warns that Mother Nature governs our mortality.

  • EDITOR

  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • MIKE SLEE
  • ADAM RICHARDS


A&E’s The Unexplained 

CABLE TV SERIES

episode 1.2

preview

episode 1.4

PREVIEW

EPISODE 1.12

PREVIEW

Victims of unsolved crimes and illnesses turn to metaphysicians for answers.

  • 1ST CAMERA/DIT

  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
  • EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER
  • EDITOR
  • SOUND

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • DOUG LIMAN
  • RUSS STRATTON
  • JOSH CHERTOFF
  • ALFREDO ALCANTARA
  • MATT KAZMAN
  • STEVE GIRARD


Step into the Page

documentary | VIMEO STAFF PICK

Disney animator Glen Keane reimagines himself by drawing in every dimension.

  • EDITOR

  • CLIENT
  • PRODUCER
  • DIRECTOR
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER
  • COLORIST
  • SOUND

  • JOEY DELLO RUSSO

  • F.O.S.T
  • EVEN/ODD FILMS
  • ASHLEY RODHOLM
  • JOE PICARD
  • CAREY BURENS
  • JOEL RAABE