Jason Russell (born 1979) is an American film and theater director, choreographer, and activist who co-founded Invisible Children, Inc. He is the director of Kony in 2012, a short documentary film that makes the virus in early March 2012. In the first week she gained more than 83 million views and became the subject of intense media scrutiny and criticism. subjects were African rebel leader Joseph Kony, war crimes, and the movement to bring it to the International Criminal Court.




Biography

Russell was the youngest son of Sheryl and Paul Russell, co-founder of the Christian Youth Theatre He has three siblings:. Travis Russell, Amy Russell, and Janie Russell.
"It's my life," Russell said the Los Angeles Times in an interview when he was 13, in which he discussed the importance of acting in her life. "That's what everyone around me that I did not even think about it .. I did my first show at 8, and I have done over 20 plays since. You can not do this if you do not like it. You have to commit themselves for it. When you get in front of people, you have to act like you know what you are doing you can not be afraid or scared to go there, volunteer, be the first to do something.
Russell graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts By Danica Jones and Jon M. Chu, he co-wrote Moxie, the music, which the team was sold to Steven Spielberg.
On October 23, 2004, he married Danica Jones in La Jolla, Calif. They have two children.
Russell is an evangelical Christian, and in November 2011 he spoke openly about his faith and charity work in conjunction with a speech at Liberty University conference.
Detention

On March 15, 2012, Russell was arrested by San Diego police and taken to a local hospital after allegedly damaging a car and do sexual cues after removing her panties. Police said he was not arrested but was detained and hospitalized. His wife explained that he was greatly influenced by film critics, "because of how personal this film, many of the attacks against it are also very personal, and Jason took them very hard. According to a brief statement issued by the Invisible Children, Russell exausted after an emotional victim of a media storm in Kony throughout 2012. According to a family statement, the official diagnosis "brief reactive psychosis, acute condition caused by extreme fatigue, stress, and dehydration.