Jo Garrity |

Director, Executive Producer

Jo is a writer, filmmaker, and improviser based in Barcelona. He partners with artists and agencies to create innovative and award-winning projects across film, television, music, theatre, and branded content. Through Jog Films’ Backlot Tram Ride and Creativity Labs, he shares his creative process and teaches unblocking expression through interdisciplinary techniques.

While studying genetics at UC Berkeley, Jo pivoted into filmmaking during a semester at NYU’s Spring at Tisch program, learning 16mm film production and assisting writers and cast as a research intern at Saturday Night Live. He went on to work with the Pacific Film Archive, Telluride Film Festival, and Pixar Animation Studios, working as an assistant editor on films like INSIDE OUT, THE GOOD DINOSAUR, and FINDING DORY.

Jo is the writer/director of the narrative short film TWINSBURG, a tragicomic ode to his identical twinship, which received 50 official selections, 10 awards, and was featured in the New York Times. He was lead editor and assistant director of the A&E/History Channel documentary WATERGATE, a six-part limited series by Academy Award-winning director Charles Ferguson that played theatrically at Telluride, NYFF, and Berlinale.

He has directed music videos and promos for artists including Alvvays, Hank May, and Crumb. Specializing in analogue video synthesis, his audiovisual design has been commissioned for Alvvays’ Antisocialites tour and Crumb’s Jinx tour in Europe and North America. As a creative director, copywriter, and video editor he has collaborated on branded content for clients like Desigual, Bushmills, Tiffany & Co, and Nickelodeon.

Jo received a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California, Riverside, concentrating in screenwriting and creative nonfiction. He has trained and performed as an improviser and writer at The Groundlings theatre LA, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NY, BATS Improv SF, and Barcelona Improv Group.

Currently he is in development as writer/director of the independent feature film THE PEPSI-COLA ADDICT, based on the lost novel by June-Alison Gibbons.