Julian Rad

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Volunteer Experience

  • WXO - World Experience Organization Graphic

    Founding Member

    WXO - World Experience Organization

    - Present 3 years 3 months

    Arts and Culture

    The World Experience Organization is where thought-leaders from diverse experience sectors collaborate in order to increase the impact of experiences: increase profit, improve wellbeing, and build a better society.

  • Indoor Recess Graphic

    Mentor/Creative Director

    Indoor Recess

    - 6 months

    Education

    I had the good fortune to meet a bunch of fantastic young people whose traditional internships at Ad Agency's were disrupted by COVID19 during the summer of 2020. As a mentor, I advised my teams as they unpacked actual RFPs from Color of Change and Twitch and Disney and guided them through the creative development of their responses to the client's asks. Did I mention one of my teams won? Season two, Team Footstomp! for Twitch: Client pick, Judges pick and Best Creative!

  • The Workshop Graphic

    Creative Mentor

    The Workshop

    - 1 year 1 month

    Education

  • Progressive HackNight Graphic

    Founding Member/Creative Director

    Progressive HackNight

    - 1 year 4 months

    Science and Technology

    One of the original founding members and creative director of Progressive HackNight, a bi-weekly gathering of coders and creatives, makers and doers, to foment and inspire action.

  • Progressive Coders Network Graphic

    Creative Director

    Progressive Coders Network

    - 1 year 4 months

    Civil Rights and Social Action

    Progressive Coders is a group of change makers with diverse skillsets removing the influence of money in politics by empowering the grassroots through open-source/low-cost tools.

  • Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Graphic

    Creative Director/Director

    Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

    - 2 years 2 months

    Science and Technology

    Developed and executed the Closing on a Cure campaign for the ADDF in their internal and external communications promoting the research successes and efforts of their grantees in the fight against Alzheimer's Disease.

  • ADAPT Community Network Graphic

    Creative Director

    ADAPT Community Network

    - 5 months

    Social Services

    ADAPT Community Network, formerly United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, is the leading human service not-for-profit and a pioneer in providing cutting edge programs and services for people with disabilities. Every day, we build a more inclusive world for thousands of New Yorkers through education, technology, health, residential and recreational programs in all five boroughs.

  • International Center of Photography Graphic

    Creative Director

    International Center of Photography

    - 1 year 5 months

    Arts and Culture

    Creative Director partnering with ICP as they built out their social media presence and bolstered up their education awareness. Did you know ICP has a fantastic school as a part of their museum space? Too few people were aware of that, so we set about the task of amplifying not just their curriculum, their fantastic faculty, but also the work of the student body, their shows and their work.

  • Amnesty International USA Graphic

    Creative Director

    Amnesty International USA

    - 1 year

    Human Rights

    Creative Director for Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary Capitol and Awareness Campaign.

Publications

  • In the middle of Nowhere: A case study of Independent Film in the early 90s

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    In 1992 I produced the independently financed The Four Corners of Nowhere. In the summer of 1993, we shot it in Ann Arbor Michigan. In 1994 we were the most anticipated film at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. And by 1997, we were suing our distributor, a suit we finally won in 1999. A look at the hope and heartbreak of Indie filmmaking in the 90s.

Honors & Awards

  • 2019 AdAge Best Experiential Events of the Year, Google Cloud Next 19

    AdAge

    Bring together 30,000 people and offer them more than 500 sessions, 400 speakers and hands-on boot camps for three days in San Francisco, and you’ve got Google Cloud Next. The annual conference covered everything from genomic analyses to leading the charge on equality and inclusion, all with an eye on cloud technology. During the three days, Google released a flurry of announcements while providing plenty of time for attendees to interact with products, applications and one another. And Ad Age…

    Bring together 30,000 people and offer them more than 500 sessions, 400 speakers and hands-on boot camps for three days in San Francisco, and you’ve got Google Cloud Next. The annual conference covered everything from genomic analyses to leading the charge on equality and inclusion, all with an eye on cloud technology. During the three days, Google released a flurry of announcements while providing plenty of time for attendees to interact with products, applications and one another. And Ad Age tapped it as one of the best Experiential Events of the year.

    https://adage.com/bestexperiential2019#exp6

  • 2019 Infinity Film Festival, Best Episodic, Subverse

    Infinity Film Festival

    We've had quite a run through digital and episodic film festivals. Here's a summary:

    WINNER: Best Sci-Fi Series - London Short Series Festival
    WINNER: Best Episodic - Infinity Film Festival Beverly Hills
    WINNER: Best Episodic - Bowery Film Festival Fall Edition
    WINNER: Best New-Media Award - Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival
    WINNER: Best Web Series - Philip K. Dick Film Festival
    WINNER: Best Web/TV Content - MidWest Weird Fest
    WINNER: Best Web Series - Unrestricted View Film…

    We've had quite a run through digital and episodic film festivals. Here's a summary:

    WINNER: Best Sci-Fi Series - London Short Series Festival
    WINNER: Best Episodic - Infinity Film Festival Beverly Hills
    WINNER: Best Episodic - Bowery Film Festival Fall Edition
    WINNER: Best New-Media Award - Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival
    WINNER: Best Web Series - Philip K. Dick Film Festival
    WINNER: Best Web/TV Content - MidWest Weird Fest
    WINNER: Best Web Series - Unrestricted View Film Festival
    WINNER: Most Imaginative Film - FirstGlance Film Festival
    WINNER: Best Web / New Media - FIFF Sept Edition
    WINNER: Best Web Series - Monkey Bread Tree Film Awards
    WINNER: Best Web-Media - The Vision Feast Film Festival
    WINNER: Best Actor (Webseries) - FirstGlance Film Festival
    RUNNER-UP: Best Web/TV Series - Berlin SciFi Film Fest
    SEMI-FINALIST: Best VFX - Berlin SciFi Film Fest
    FINALIST: Best Web Series - Indie Short Fest Dec Edition
    FINALIST: Best Episodic Web Series - Hyperwave Film Awards
    OFFICIAL SELECTION: Raindance Film Festival, Stareable Fest, Melbourne WebFest, Hollyweb Film Festival, Miami Sci-Fi Film Festival, NYC Independent Film Festival, Splat! Film Festival, Reel Shorts Chicago

  • 2018 Experience Design & Technology Award, Best Overall B-to-B Environment - GOLD

    Event Marketer

    Google Cloud Next offers developers, partners, customers and IT professionals the “what’s now and next” across Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Maps and Education. It includes 450 breakout sessions, 250 sponsor activations, boot camps for 2,000, an on-site executive briefing center, keynotes with overflow theaters, multiple expo halls, outdoor networking and F&B spaces, four embedded summits and more. It’s certainly a logistical tall order, but from a design perspective, it is also a challenge…

    Google Cloud Next offers developers, partners, customers and IT professionals the “what’s now and next” across Google Cloud Platform, G Suite, Maps and Education. It includes 450 breakout sessions, 250 sponsor activations, boot camps for 2,000, an on-site executive briefing center, keynotes with overflow theaters, multiple expo halls, outdoor networking and F&B spaces, four embedded summits and more. It’s certainly a logistical tall order, but from a design perspective, it is also a challenge in making all of the parts fit the whole.

    The editors of Event Marketer present the 2018 Experience Design & Technology Awards, the world’s only recognition program honoring the best use of design, social media and event technology to enhance live experiences.

    https://edt-awards-winners-18.eventmarketer.com/?q=winner-417

  • 2014 IDEA Award for Digital Design: Video Highlights for HTC's Sense 5.0/5.5

    Industrial Designers Society of America

    2014 International Design Excellence Award for Digital Design, Bronze
    HTC Video Highlights for the HTC One camera allows users to easily create professional-looking videos. Highlight videos are created dynamically as the user shoots photos and videos and are saved as a highlight reel in the camera’s gallery, eliminating the step of editing video content. Users can play the video, add or shuffle content, and apply themes, filters, transitions and music.

    Designed by David Folchi (lead),…

    2014 International Design Excellence Award for Digital Design, Bronze
    HTC Video Highlights for the HTC One camera allows users to easily create professional-looking videos. Highlight videos are created dynamically as the user shoots photos and videos and are saved as a highlight reel in the camera’s gallery, eliminating the step of editing video content. Users can play the video, add or shuffle content, and apply themes, filters, transitions and music.

    Designed by David Folchi (lead), Cassy Meyers, Koa Metter, Dave Brinda, Jorge Furuya and Szymon Whitehorn and Benjamin Bethurum of HTC America Innovation
    Julian Rad (lead), Tamara Hahn, Michael Sullivan and Matt Nee of RadWorks

    http://www.idsa.org/awards/idea/digital-design/htc-video-highlights#sthash.eQJsOjH2.dpuf

  • 2008 Talkin' Broadway Summer Theater Citation, Best Musical, Love Jerry

    Talkin' Broadway

    2008 Talkin’ Broadway Summer Theatre Citation Best Musical, “Love Jerry”
    2008 Talkin’ Broadway Summer Theatre Citation Best Actor (2 recognitions!), “Love Jerry”

  • 2008 New York Musical Theater Festival, Best of Fest, Love Jerry

    New York Musical Theater Festival

    Best of Fest: Love Jerry
    Outstanding Ensemble: Love Jerry
    Outstanding Individual Performance Award: Donna Lynne Champlin (Love Jerry)
    Outstanding Individual Performance Award: Harris Doran (Love Jerry)
    Excellence in Direction, Honorable Mention: Hilary Adams (Love Jerry)
    Most Promising New Musical, Honorable Mention: Love Jerry
    Excellence in Writing (Book): Megan Gogerty (Love Jerry)

  • 2004 Drama Desk Awards, Outstanding Play, Moby Dick

    Drama Desk Awards

    I wrote a "play with music" adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick which was honored as the first Off-Off Broadway play ever to be nominated for Outstanding Play or Outstanding Director in the then-50-year history of the Award.

    2004 Drama Desk Nominee, Outstanding Play “Moby Dick”
    2004 Drama Desk Nominee, Outstanding Director of a Play “Moby Dick”
    2004 Drama Desk Nominee, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, “Moby Dick”

  • 2002 Ross W. Wetszon Obie Awards

    Obie Awards

    2002 Ross W. Wetzson Obie Award Winner, "Moby Dick" at Ice Factory 2002, SohoThinkTank/Works Productions

  • 1997 Roy W. Dean Documentary Film Award, The Franklin Cover Up

    Roy W. Dean Awards, From the Heart Productions

    I pitched this project while it was in progress and to my great fortune, the judges saw it's potential. Sadly it's still unfinished in post-production due to a pending court decision to release sealed footage seized by US Marshalls in 1997. Long Story.

    The Franklin Cover Up did also take the 1997 Laura Napor Vision in Film, Documentary Award.

  • 1995 Sundance Film Festival, Fiction Feature Film Competition

    Sundance FIlm Festival

    A little annual film festival you may have heard of in Park City Utah organized by the Sundance Institute. We were one of 12 films that were in the Fiction Feature Film Competition, and in 1997, our film would also launch the newly minted Sundance Channel in partnership with Showtime.

    Our film would go on the festival circuit in 1995 and in the process we won a few international awards including:
    1995 Chicago Underground Film Festival Best of Fest “The Four Corners of Nowhere”…

    A little annual film festival you may have heard of in Park City Utah organized by the Sundance Institute. We were one of 12 films that were in the Fiction Feature Film Competition, and in 1997, our film would also launch the newly minted Sundance Channel in partnership with Showtime.

    Our film would go on the festival circuit in 1995 and in the process we won a few international awards including:
    1995 Chicago Underground Film Festival Best of Fest “The Four Corners of Nowhere”
    1995 Leeds International Film Festival Audience Choice “The Four Corners of Nowhere”
    1995 Capetown Internat’l Film Festival Audience Choice “The Four Corners of Nowhere”
    1995 Central Florida Internat’l Film Festival Best of Fest “The Four Corners of Nowhere”

Organizations

  • World Experience Organization

    Founding Member

    - Present

  • Dramatists Guild

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