Joe Wade (filmmaker)

Joe Wade at andel's Hotel Cracow in an event

Joe Wade is a British filmmaker, TV writer and producer. He is CEO and co-founder of Don't Panic, a media agency based in Shoreditch. Wade has been making videos for YouTube to stir controversy on numerous human rights and social issues since 2009. In 2012 he co-created a BBC Three show, alongside Heydon Prowse, titled The Revolution Will Be Televised, consequently winning a BAFTA for it in May 2013. The show was nominated for second TV BAFTA in 2014 and lost to James Corden. In The Revolution stars Jolyon Rubinstein and Prowse hold politicians and businessmen to account for wrongdoings and corruption, in a satirical manner.

Under Don't Panic Wade produced several cause related viral videos, including the Cannes Lions Gold Lion winner Most Shocking Second a Day… film for Save The Children, to mark the three year anniversary of the conflict in Syria . More recently Wade produced Everything is Not Awesome… for Greenpeace targeting Lego’s partnership with Shell .

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