Theodore James began his career in 2004 when he moved to Los Angeles and started working in non-fiction productions. In 2005 he teamed up with Patrick Creadon and Christine O'Malley on the release of Wordplay, a documentary about The New York Times crossword editor and National Public Radio personality Will Shorts. Wordplay was a breakout hit at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and went on to become the second-highest grossing documentary of the year.
He next served as a producer on I.O.U.S.A., an examination of America's debt problem, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was later nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for best Documentary Feature.
In 2009 he produced his first made-for-television documentary for Nickelodeon about the lovable cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants, which aired on VH1and Nickelodeon to stellar ratings.
As the economy continued to worsened, he re-teamed with his I.O.U.S.A. filmmakers and produced I.O.U.S.A.: Solutions, a two-hour follow-up, that gave possible solutions to our troubled national debt. It aired on CNN in April, 2010 to great acclaim.
He started his own production company (SuperFilms!) with fellow colleague Michael Barnett. Together they financed their first feature documentary film Superheroes. The film was a breakout hit at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival where it won the first ever "Theatrical Release Award". It was quickly bought by HBO Documentary Films and aired last August on the network. He and Michael were developing new projects at SuperFilms!.
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