BIOGRAPHY | BACKGROUND
Rooted Media is led by Sidney Beaumont, who has worked in film and television for more than two decades in a variety of roles, including director, showrunner, executive producer, and producer. In addition, he has overseen creative teams in media content, strategy, and design for a variety of organizations, companies, and campaigns. His film and television work has garnered two Prime Time Emmys, a Peabody, as well as other industry awards. (CONTINUES)
Sidney recently completed a series of over 20 short videos created for the successful NO ON 2117 campaign, the response to Washington state Initiative 2117 that was mounted to repeal Washington’s historic Climate Commitment Act. He directed, produced, co-wrote, edited, and created graphics for a short impact video for SHIFT ZERO, a non-profit alliance of over 50 green building, energy efficiency, affordable housing, and climate action organizations working to reduce the over one quarter of carbon pollution produced by buildings in Washington state. He directed and produced a short video for The Solutions Project, an NGO working to support a just transition to a regenerative economy through their support of frontline organizations creating climate solutions. He directed, produced, and co-wrote a short video for Green Canopy NODE, a Pacific Northwest green building, development, and construction technology company. He directed and produced Paris to Pittsburgh, a feature documentary about climate impacts and solutions being implemented by cities, states, and businesses around the US (NatGeo). Previously he produced and was segment director of the feature documentary From the Ashes about coal, climate, and the energy future (NatGeo).
Other roles have included development consultant for Vulcan Productions, Paul Allen’s media company, developing a short-form series on climate change and strategic and creative communications consultant to create a slate of content for The Solutions Project.
In his role as Executive Producer of Media & Entertainment for RadicalMedia, a global media company based in New York City, he executive produced numerous projects including: What Happened, Miss Simone?, a feature documentary about the legendary artist Nina Simone (Netflix); United States of America v. James J. Bulger about the notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger (CNN FiIms); The System with Joe Berlinger, a multi-part television series about the criminal justice system (Al Jazeera America); Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (HBO); Visionaries, a series featuring eminent artists and creators (OWN); Dean of Invention, a series showcasing developments on the technological frontier (Discovery); How Sweet the Sound, a documentary about a nationwide gospel competition (BET Network); Ironic Iconic America, a playful take on American popular culture (Bravo); and Iconoclasts, the critically acclaimed Sundance Channel series, among others.
His producer credits include the Robert Redford directed segment of Cathedrals of Culture, a multi-part international series about celebrated architecture, and supervising producer for the ten-part, Emmy award-winning History Channel series Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, for which he also produced the episode When America Was Rocked. In addition, he has served as the series producer for two seasons of Iconoclasts and has produced a number of Iconoclasts episodes. Additional producing credits include the HBO documentary Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free, two episodes the series Parking Lot, and the feature documentary Gray Matter for Cinemax. Other past documentary projects include: Justice and the Generals, a national PBS documentary about the case of two Salvadoran generals brought to trial for murdering American churchwomen and the Emmy nominated Inside The Box, a two-part series about health care and education as part of the PBS Democracy Project.
He has also produced, executive produced, and overseen creative development for many short-form, commercial, and digital projects, as well as worked with leading advertising agencies on developing and producing short-form and branded content campaigns. Projects have included the YouTube Channel THNKR, as well as for organizations and brands including Apple, J. Crew, American Express, Discovery, PBS, Grey Goose, IBM, Boost Up, and NASA, among others,
He has also worked as a producer, communications director, and curator in the performing and visual arts; student and practitioner of green building and design; board member for environmental and arts organizations; and community college instructor of sociology on subjects including urban affairs, technology, politics, and the media. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America.