
BIOGRAPHY
Sidney Beaumont has worked in film and television for more than two decades in a variety of roles, including director, showrunner, executive producer, and producer. He has also overseen creative teams in media content, strategy, and design for a variety of organizations, companies, and campaigns. His film and television work has garnered two Prime Time Emmys, a Peabody, as well as other industry awards.
Sidney is currently working on a series of short videos for the Building Decarbonization Coalition featuring chefs and restaurants embracing electric kitchens to promote climate-friendly practices. He produced a series of over 20 short videos for the successful NO ON 2117 campaign, which prevented the repeal of Washington’s historic Climate Commitment Act. He created a short impact video for SHIFT ZERO, a non-profit alliance of over 50 green building, energy efficiency, affordable housing, and climate action organizations.
Other recent short form video projects include those for The Solutions Project, a national NGO working to support a just transition to a regenerative economy through their support of frontline organizations creating climate solutions and Green Canopy NODE, a Pacific Northwest green building, development, and construction technology company. He also directed and produced Paris to Pittsburgh, a feature documentary about climate impacts and solutions being implemented by cities, states, and businesses around the US (NatGeo). Previously he produced and was segment director of the feature documentary From the Ashes about coal, climate change, and the energy future (NatGeo).
In his role as Executive Producer of Media & Entertainment for RadicalMedia, a global media company based in New York City, he executive produced numerous projects including: What Happened, Miss Simone?, a feature documentary about the legendary artist Nina Simone (Netflix); United States of America v. James J. Bulger about the notorious Boston gangster Whitey Bulger (CNN FiIms); The System with Joe Berlinger, a multi-part television series about the criminal justice system (Al Jazeera America); Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (HBO); Visionaries, a series featuring eminent artists and creators (OWN); Dean of Invention, (Discovery); How Sweet the Sound, (BET Network); Ironic Iconic America, a playful take on American popular culture (Bravo); and Iconoclasts, the critically acclaimed Sundance Channel series, among others.
His producer credits include the Robert Redford directed segment of Cathedrals of Culture and supervising producer for the ten-part, Emmy award-winning History Channel series Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, for which he also produced the episode When America Was Rocked, Iconoclasts, Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free (HBO), and Gray Matter (Cinemax).
He has also produced, executive produced, and overseen creative development for many short-form, commercial, and digital projects, as well as worked with leading advertising agencies on developing and producing short-form and branded content campaigns. Projects have included the YouTube Channel THNKR, as well as for organizations and brands including Apple, J. Crew, American Express, Discovery, PBS, Grey Goose, IBM, Boost Up, and NASA, among others,
He has also worked as a producer, communications director, and curator in the performing and visual arts; student and practitioner of green building and design; board member for environmental and arts organizations; and community college instructor of sociology. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America.