Also known as: johnpapola
Emergent Order co-founder and creative director John Papola is an award-winning director and producer who has been working in short and long-form broadcast TV production for the past decade. His former employers and clients include major networks and brands like Spike TV, Nickelodeon, and MTV as well as creative ad agencies such as Crispin Porter, Razorfish and JWT. John has been a leader in new media creative production and marketing with a number of viral hits under his belt including the Look Closer cross-media campaign for the Video Game Awards and the Back to the Future viral campaign featuring Michael J. Fox for Spike TVs Scream Awards which was featured on Entertainment Tonight and garnered over . million views in days. Tapping into a strong interest in economics, John teamed up with economist and author Russ Roberts to create EconStories, a new media brand dedicated to re-imagining economics education through creativity and storytelling. John co-wrote, produced and directed two hip-hop music videos about the economy, Fear the Boom and Bust, and Fight of the Century, which have become global sensations, garnering praise from international press and over million combined views on YouTube. Both videos are being used in classrooms all over the world to breath new life into the dismal science. While a creative director at Spike TV, John played an important role in re-branding of the network as well as the networks highly successful, industry-leading integrated brand marketing campaigns. The brands for which John has directed campaigns include Unilevers Axe, Burger King, Geico, Campbells, T-Mobile, Boston Beer, Snickers, Jeep and many more. He is also the creator of Spikes award-winning pro-social initiative True Dads in Uniform, an effort in partnership with the USO to keep our troops overseas connected with their families back home. Specialties Directing live action, documentary and special FX heavy work. Producing. Directing kids and teenagers. Directing dialog-driven adult comedy. Writing. Editing. Compositing. Managing and motivating my crew. Technical directing for special effects and compositing. Developing post production workflows. Broad and extensive knowledge of computers in general and Apple products in particular to an extent that is probably unhealthy.
