Biographie
Jamie Schutz is an Emmy Award winning producer, director, and President of Stick Figure Entertainment and recently produced, BORN IN SYNANON, a four-part series on drug treatment facility, turned cult, for PARAMOUNT+. Jamie EP'd Crime Waves: Cold Truth, an eight-episode podcast on fringe scientist, Eugene Mallove, and is producing HIP HOP WORLD for AMAZON.
Other recent producing credits include CITIZEN ASHE on tennis player/activist, ARTHUR ASHE, directed by SAM POLLARD and REX MILLER, and EP'd by JOHN LEGEND for CNN, Emmy Award winning, WHEN CLAUDE GOT SHOT, directed by BRAD LICHTENSTEIN and EP'd by SNOOP DOGG, HOOD RIVER for HBO MAX, directed by STEVEN CANTOR and EP'd by ROBERT RODRIGUEZ, RELENTLESS for DISCOVERY+ in association with BLUMHOUSE, STAY HOME WITH: YUNGBLUD and 30 DAYS WITH for YOUTUBE, TWYLA MOVES, an AMERICAN MASTERS on TWYLA THARP for PBS, and FOUND for NETFLIX, directed by AMANDA LIPITZ.
Current films include NEVER SATISFIED: THE MAKING OF HAMILTON with AMBLIN, BECOMING NORMANI, FOUR DOWN with DWAYNE JOHNSON, VANISH MODE, SNAKE CHURCH and VENUS XTRAVAGANZA with PARTICIPANT.
Other recent producing credits include, BETWEEN ME AND MY MIND, on TREY ANASTASIO and WHAT WILL BECOME OF US, on Holocaust survivor and Westfield Malls magnate FRANK LOWY, both directed by STEVEN CANTOR. Jamie also produced BALLET NOW for HULU, on ballerina TILER PECK, with ELIZABETH MOSS, in association with VULCAN STUDIOS, and SUNDANCE AWARD winning film, STEP, directed by AMANDA LIPITZ, distributed by SEARCHLIGHT. Jamie also EP'd DANCER, starring SERGEI POLUNIN, and CHASING TYSON for ESPN.
Jamie produced Emmy Award series, THE MASK WITH HENRIK LUNDQVIST and CLYDE'S NEW YORK about Clyde Frazier, for MSG NETWORKS, a film on DAVID ROBINSON, son of legendary baseball player JACKIE ROBINSON, with SPIKE LEE, SPYBALL on MOE BERG, STORYTIME WITH OZZIE GUILLÉN, an animated series starring OZZIE GUILLÉN and directed BY THE NUMB3RS WITH JUSTIN ZORM3LO and directed THE COLLECTORS, all for ESPN.
Jamie produced and directed brand films for Philips, DuPont, IBM, Lenovo, Expedia, Unilever, and IKEA, while serving as Head of Production at Ogilvy Entertainment, and directed a film on ANDY WARHOL for the WARHOL museum.
Television credits include Co-EP on MIAMI INK and SHALOM IN THE HOME, S. Producer on NANNY 911 for FOX and THE MILLER SHOW for Oxygen and field produced SURVIVOR 1 & SURVIVOR 2 for CBS and ECO-CHALLENGE for USA Network, and co-created and co-produced THE REAL CANCUN, distributed by NEW LINE. Jamie began his career as an AD on features & music videos.
