Joe Sousa

Joseph Sousa is an Emmy-nominated producer, writer, and director with four years experience working in public and commercial television. He has produced programming that has aired on PBS, ABC, NBC, Spike TV, and Portuguese satellite network RTP International. Sousa is currently segment producer on Conversations with Carlos Watson, a cutting edge new talk show with former CNN commentator Carlos Watson. Sousa's most recent documentary film, Festa, is a 30-minute independently produced film focusing on the Portuguese immigrant community of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Festa premiered domestically on PBS and internationally on RTP and has been nominated for a 2007 New England Regional Emmy Award.

Through 2006 Sousa was on staff as an associate producer for Emmy and Dupont-award winning Stuart Television Productions. At Stuart Productions, Sousa helped to produce four films shot in Africa, Asia and the Middle East for a series called The New Heroes for broadcast on PBS. Sousa additionally served as associate producer on two projects for Stuart Productions that are in post-production, including a documentary in the Middle East about extremism and a recently completed one-hour PBS historical documentary about Justice Louis Brandeis and social justice.

Sousa is a contracted freelance associate producer for Boston's acclaimed PBS station, WGBH. For WGBH, Sousa is associate producer on the James Beard Award- winning series Food Trip with Todd English, and Yoga for the Rest of Us. Outside of PBS, Sousa served as associate producer on the Spike TV documentary Viva Baseball, which documents the history and influence of Latin Baseball players and won the 2006 Banff World TV Award for best sports documentary. Sousa has also produced a variety of industrial and corporate video and web projects, including interactive DVD training programs and password protected web videos. His clients range form the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to large financial consulting firms to construction management corporations. Sousa began his professional career by editing the ethnographic documentary for acclaimed anthropologist and filmmaker, Akos Ostor. That film, Singing Pictures, told the story of painters in West Bengal and went on to win the top prize at the Cambridge, England Ethnographic Film Festival. Sousa has written and produced several award winning short fiction films and is a graduate with high honors of Wesleyan University.

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