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{{Infobox person
|name = Jason Russell
|image = InvisibleChildren founder&celeb.jpg
|alt =
|caption = Russell and ] in 2009
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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|10|12|mf=yes}}
|birth_place = ], ], U.S.
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|death_place =
|residence = ], California, U.S.
|alma_mater = ]
|spouse = Danica Jones (2004&ndash;present)
|children = 2
|other_names =
|boards = ]
|known_for ='']''<br>]
|occupation =Film director, charity worker, activist
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'''Jason Russell''' (born October 12, 1978)<ref></ref> is an American film and theater director, choreographer, and activist who co-founded ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-russell |title=Jason Russell |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-17}}</ref> He is the director of '']'', a short documentary film that went ] in the beginning of March 2012. In the first two weeks it gained more than 83 million views on ]<ref>{{cite web|title='Kony 2012′ Creator's Breakdown Highlights Stress of Criticism|url=http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/03/19/kony-2012-creators-breakdown-highlights-stress-of-criticism/|work=abcnews.go.com|accessdate=20 March 2012|date=19 March 2012}}</ref> and became the subject of intensive media scrutiny and criticism.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kony 2012 Highlights Importance Of Researching Charities |first=Lindsay |last=Watts |date=March 9, 2012 |publisher=KRDO NewsChannel 13 |url=http://www.krdo.com/news/30649835/detail.html}}</ref><ref name="losesit">{{cite news |title=Wife blames exhaustion for 'irrational' behavior by 'Kony 2012' filmmaker |url=http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/16/10721745-wife-blames-exhaustion-for-irrational-behavior-by-kony-2012-filmmaker |publisher=NBC News |date=March 16, 2012}}</ref> Its subject is the Ugandan rebel leader ], his alleged war crimes, and the movement to bring him to the ].

==Career==
Russell, with Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole, created the Invisible Children organization in 2003 after they "traveled to Uganda and witnessed children camping out in the city of Gulu to avoid being kidnapped into the militia in their villages."<ref>{{cite news |title=Uganda kidnappings target of Oakland march; Over 400 help the 'Invisible Children' |author=Mark Roth |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/uganda-kidnappings-target-of-oakland-march-over-400-help-the-invisible-children-339493/ |newspaper=] |date=April 26, 2009 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref> With camera equipment obtained from ], they went to Africa as student filmmakers but had no plan for the focus of their intended documentary.<ref name="Washburn"/><ref name="UCSD">{{cite news |title=Saving the 'Invisible Children' |author=Ioana Patringenaru |url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2009/08/17_invisible.asp |newspaper=] |date=August 17, 2009 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref> According to Russell, the trip was inspired by the 1993 death of ], who had been beaten to death while trying to document the ongoing famine in ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Film aims to shine light on the abducted children of Uganda |author=Emily Lowell |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-10965814.html |newspaper=] |date=February 21, 2005 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}}{{subscription needed}}</ref>

After Russell's group reached the Sudan their caravan was attacked by the Lord's Resistance Army, forcing a retreat to Northern Uganda.<ref name="NEF">{{cite news |title=Children at War |author=Scott R. Caseley |url=http://newenglandfilm.com/news/archives/2007/02/invisible.htm |newspaper=New England Film |date=February 1, 2007 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref> In ], Russell and the others interviewed and videotaped children who had to commute to the city every night to elude raids by the LRA on their home villages in ].<ref name="Washburn">{{cite news |title='Displace Me' event hosted to raise awareness of displacement camps |author=Tricia Friesen |url=http://www.washburnreview.org/2.5492/displace-me-event-hosted-to-raise-awareness-of-displacement-camps-1.839471#.UC8ycd2PXi9 |newspaper=The Washburn Review |date=October 30, 2009 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref> During filming, the three men contracted malaria, but omitted covering their illness so that the documentary would remain focused on the children.<ref>{{cite news |title=Reaching around the world: a youthful odyssey turns into a grassroots movement helping young victims of war-torn Africa |author=Sally Deneen |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-192591924.html |newspaper=] |date=February 1, 2009 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}} {{subscription needed}}</ref> The footage they shot resulted in the original ''Invisible Children'' documentary draft, which was first screened in June 2004.<ref name="NEF"/>

Russell and others returned to Uganda for six months in 2005 to collect more interviews and documentation for the next ''Invisible Children'' documentary.<ref>{{cite news |title=Young Christian film team documents war-zone children |author=Jenny Brown |url=http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Oct05/Art_Oct05_09.html |newspaper=] |date=October 2005 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref> In 2006, after the Washington D.C. screening of Russell and Poole's ], the U.S. Congress approved discussion of the plight of the Acholi before the ].<ref>{{cite news |title=State Dept: Crisis of abducted Ugandan children shown in documentary |author=Susan Ellis Washington |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-999914231.html |newspaper=] |date=March 8, 2006 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}} {{subscription needed}}</ref> The 2006 '']'' also won Russell, Bailey, and Poole the Pioneering Spirit Award at the 2007 ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Film Festival Concludes With 22,000 Attendees |author= |url=http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=26182 |newspaper=Inside Indiana Business |date=October 30, 2007 |accessdate=August 18, 2012}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Russell is the younger son of Sheryl and Paul Russell, co-founders of ].<ref>{{cite web|author=March 16, 2012&nbsp; |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/jason-russell-kony-2012-invisible-children.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29 |title=Jason Russell: Neighbors tried to calm him as he acted 'bizarre' &ndash; latimes.com |publisher=Latimesblogs.latimes.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-17|page=m}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cytsandiego.org/programs/CCT-7 |title=CCT |publisher=CYT San Diego |date=2012-02-24 |accessdate=2012-03-17}}</ref><ref name="latimes1992">{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-12/news/nc-5051_1_christian-youth-theater/2 |title=So You Want to Be A Star, Kid? : Theaters That Get Kids Into the Act &ndash; Page 2 &ndash; ''Los Angeles Times'' |publisher=Articles.latimes.com |date=1992-03-12 |accessdate=2012-03-17}}</ref>

Russell discussed acting in an interview when he was 13 years old: "That was my life. It was what everybody around me did. I didn't even think about it. I did my first show at 8, and I have done over 20 plays since. You can't do this if you don't like it. You have to commit yourself to it."<ref name="latimes1992"/> Russell graduated from the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jason Russell|url=http://www.invisiblechildren.com/our-team.html|work=invisiblechildren.com|accessdate=18 March 2012}}</ref> With Danica Jones and ], he co-wrote a musical, ''Moxie'', which the team sold to ].<ref>Nicole Urso, "Dance Fever", ''Los Angeles Magazine'', December 2003, page 94-100</ref>

On October 23, 2004, he married Danica Jones in ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050130/news_m1j30wow.html |title=Theatrics put this duo in the spotlight &ndash; ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'' |publisher=Utsandiego.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-17}}</ref> They have two children.<ref>{{cite web|last=Orden |first=Erica |url=http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/03/16/kony-2012-director-jason-russell-detained-after-meltdown/ |title='Kony 2012' Director Jason Russell Detained After 'Meltdown' - Speakeasy &ndash; WSJ |publisher=Blogs.wsj.com |date=2011-10-18 |accessdate=2012-03-17}}</ref>

On March 15, 2012, at the height of the Kony 2012 video's viral popularity, San Diego police detained Russell for psychiatric evaluation during a public breakdown that was filmed and released online. Russell was subsequently hospitalized for several weeks. A statement by his family said the preliminary diagnosis was "brief reactive psychosis, an acute state brought on by extreme exhaustion, stress and dehydration," as a result of the popularity of the campaign. ] described it as an "out of body experience"; Russell, in an interview, said "that's not who I am".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/21/world/africa/uganda-viral-video/|title='Kony 2012' director suffered 'reactive psychosis,' family says|publisher=CNN.com|date=March 21, 2012|accessdate= March 21, 2012}}</ref><ref>http://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2012/10/03/kony-2012-jason-russell-oprah-first-interview-wasnt-me/1609909/</ref><ref>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kony-2012-jason-russell-breakdown-oprah-377041</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" | Films
! scope="col" | Release
|-
| ''Roseline: The Story of an AIDS Victim'' || 2008
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| ''Together We Are Free'' || 2009
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| ''The Rescue'' || 2009
|-
| ''Tony'' || 2010
|-
| '']'' || 2012
|-
| ''Move '' || 2012
|}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|2710743}}
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{{Invisible Children Inc.}}

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