Jason Wishnow is the Film Director at Large for the TED Conference and has worked at the intersection of film and emerging technologies for over a decade. He has been called an “online-video virtuoso” (New York Times, 2009), the “enfant terrible of digital film” (The Guardian, 2000), and one of the ten most influential digital filmmakers of 1999 (RES Magazine).

Jason is the filmmaker behind TEDTalks, the award-winning video series viewed over half a billion times; the director of Oedipus, a cinemascope stop-motion epic starring fresh vegetables (premiered at Sundance and played 70+ additional film festivals); and the creator of The New Venue, one of the first online film sites (an entire decade before YouTube).

A graduate of Stanford University, Jason has developed and directed documentaries for UK’s Channel 4, accepted invitations to speak at film festivals and media events around the world (including Sundance, SXSW, RESFEST, and Lift), exhibited in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, organized a zombie yoga flashmob, and been fired by Woody Allen’s production office.