James Blue(III)
- Producer
- Executive
- Showrunner
James Blue is the founder and owner of Storyboard Pictures which creates unscripted content for some of the world's leading brands including Jay Z's TEAM ROC, PBS, PBS NewsHour and San Francisco's premier public radio station KQED. Founder James Blue and his work have won every major broadcast journalism award including three Peabody, three DuPont and ten national news and documentary Emmys.
James was most recently Head of Smithsonian Channel and Senior Vice President of MTV News and Documentaries for Paramount Global. In that role, he partnered with Oprah Winfrey's HARPO Productions on The Color of Care, a multi-platform documentary project on racial disparities-exposed by the COVID crisis-in the delivery of healthcare. James also led his team in creating several programs including The Exhibit, an art competition series produced with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Picturing the Obamas on the national tour of the president and first lady's official portraits, Vaxxed Nation on Israel's efforts to vaccinate the entire country during the COVID pandemic, and The Hate We Can't Forget following four Holocaust survivors trying to ensure this generation of young people learn about the genocide and the dangers of forgetting. James oversaw the development of some 150 hours of documentary programming, leading his team to make more inclusive, diverse, impactful and representative content. James is a member of the Television Academy.
James was most recently Head of Smithsonian Channel and Senior Vice President of MTV News and Documentaries for Paramount Global. In that role, he partnered with Oprah Winfrey's HARPO Productions on The Color of Care, a multi-platform documentary project on racial disparities-exposed by the COVID crisis-in the delivery of healthcare. James also led his team in creating several programs including The Exhibit, an art competition series produced with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Picturing the Obamas on the national tour of the president and first lady's official portraits, Vaxxed Nation on Israel's efforts to vaccinate the entire country during the COVID pandemic, and The Hate We Can't Forget following four Holocaust survivors trying to ensure this generation of young people learn about the genocide and the dangers of forgetting. James oversaw the development of some 150 hours of documentary programming, leading his team to make more inclusive, diverse, impactful and representative content. James is a member of the Television Academy.