For Walter and Josiah
Director
Jamie Elias is an Emmy nominated filmmaker whose work has been featured on NFL Network, Peacock, Facebook, and Amazon Video.
Her most recent feature length documentary centered around a Native American basketball team in rural Montana suffering a suicide epidemic, For Walter and Josiah. The film won best documentary at the Portland, Bozeman, and Florida Film festival, it also won the Indigenous Spirit Award at the Portland Film Festival and Female director to watch at the Sun Valley Film Festival. Jamie is currently Producing an untitled documentary about the life and controversies of Andrew Dice Clay. Recently, she served as a supervising producer for John Cena’s 8 part series WWE Evil on Peacock. She has been Emmy nominated for features she produced and edited on NFL 360, NFL Network’s news anthology show that gives NFL players the opportunity to shine a light on the people, places and moments that are important to them through in-depth documentary storytelling. Jamie was also a story producer on the Emmy nominated docu-series, Us Against the World, about a high school basketball team from Eastern Kentucky battling all manners of racism and corruption while attempting to win a state championship.