Moxie Pictures LDN Team Members

Director Seth Gordon is a graduate of Yale University, winner of an Oxford University Writing Fellowship, and alumni of Harvard University’s Summer Graduate School of Design. He has produced and directed documentaries on location in Africa, Australia, Europe and around the United States for PBS, the Gates Foundation, and the UN, and has received an artist-in-residence fellowship from the state of Washington.

He has directed several short films( Squirt, Fears of a Clown, The Problem with Percival) that have won awards at Sundance and Slamdance, and appeared on AMC. Seth produced and edited the critically acclaimed Sundance documentary New York Doll, theatrically released by First Independent in 2005.

Seth was also Editor, Associate Producer, and 2nd Unit Director of Cry Wolf for Rogue Pictures in 2005. As co-founder of LargeLab, a full service production company, Seth has written and directed live action and animated projects for clients including MTV, Nike, Fox, Sony, Panasonic, and Ford. With LargeLab, Seth was a contributing producer and cinematographer on the Dixie Chicks’ Oscar nominated documentary Shut Up And Sing, released in 2006 by the Weinstein Company.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters was Seth’s feature directorial debut and he has also been tapped to direct the narrative remake of ‘Kong’ for New Line Cinema. He also directed Four Christmases, starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon, and his third film, Horrible Bosses starring Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston was a huge critical and box office success. Seth’s latest directorial effort is Identity Thief, starring Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman. 

Jared was born and raised in Kansas and Idaho, and traveled extensively around the world before University. There he met his wife, Jerusha who would become his screenwriting partner. Knowing that he loved film and wanted to make it his career, Jared worked through almost every position within the camera department before writing and directing the screenplay that would become Napoleon Dynamite.

The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Fox Searchlight Pictures and Paramount Pictures in association with MTV Films and has since developed a cult following spawning a slew of merchandise from refrigerator magnets to T-shirts to Halloween costumes, as well as the wildly popular “Vote for Pedro” t-shirts. Entertainment Weekly placed Napoleon as #88 on its 2010 list of The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years, saying “A high school misfit found a sweet spot, tapping into our inner dork.” The film also had a recent cartoon spinoff written by Jared and Jerusha which recently screened on E4 in the UK and is available on the iTunes store.

Jared’s second movie was Nacho Libre, starring Jack Black, followed by Gentlemen Broncos, starring Sam Rockwell and Jemaine Clement, both of which he co-wrote as well. Jared also directed the music video for his friend Ben Gibbard’s band. The Postal Service’s third single, We Will Become Silhouettes and The Killers’ fifth annual Christmas Charity single, Boots.