Joe Sabia(II)
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Joe Sabia is a filmmaker and digital artist with an intuitive talent for conceiving viral concepts and series formats. Joe is the creator and interviewing voice of Vogue's iconic "73 Questions" series featuring 90 of the world's biggest A-list celebrities like Taylor Swift, Adele, Roger Federer, Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lawrence.
In 2024, Joe directed his first feature film "Federer: 12 Final Days" for Amazon Studios on the retirement of Roger Federer from tennis, alongside director Asif Kapadia. Initially pitched as an opportunity to capture private home videos for Roger and his family, Joe put together a 63 minute rough cut which persuaded Roger to release it as a film to the world. He is a creative director for TEAM8 Studios, leading the development and execution of commercial content for Roger Federer, Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton.
He is also the interviewer of the annual "Billie Eilish, One Year Later" series for Vanity Fair.
Before launching his production company Studio Sabia, Joe was the SVP of Creative Development at Condé Nast Entertainment, leading the creation of digital franchises like Wired's "Autocomplete Interviews", Vanity Fair's "Lie Detector Interviews", Glamour's "You Sang My Song", GQ's "Actually Me".
In 2011 Joe received a content innovation grant from YouTube to launch a music video channel called "CDZA" which involved 150 conservatory trained musicians, gained 300k YT subscribers in 18 months and performed alongside Arcade Fire and Lady Gaga during YouTube's first ever YouTube Music Awards, collaborating with Spike Jonze.
Joe is an advisor to Masterclass, The Moth, Outlier.org and Tonebase Piano. He runs his own creative strategy agency/production company called Studio Sabia, with clients like Audible, Youtube, Spotify, American Express, Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, Carnegie Hall, and UNICEF.
Joe is a lifelong classical piano lover and amateur pianist (and a member of the Franz Liszt Society, with his car's license plate reading "B LISZT"). He considers himself the unofficial cultural ambassador to the country of Georgia, has dual citizenship with US & Italy, gave a TED Talk, won an international pun championship and once drove from England to Mongolia in a small Fiat for charity. He splits his time between NYC and Dutchess county NY.
In 2024, Joe directed his first feature film "Federer: 12 Final Days" for Amazon Studios on the retirement of Roger Federer from tennis, alongside director Asif Kapadia. Initially pitched as an opportunity to capture private home videos for Roger and his family, Joe put together a 63 minute rough cut which persuaded Roger to release it as a film to the world. He is a creative director for TEAM8 Studios, leading the development and execution of commercial content for Roger Federer, Coco Gauff and Ben Shelton.
He is also the interviewer of the annual "Billie Eilish, One Year Later" series for Vanity Fair.
Before launching his production company Studio Sabia, Joe was the SVP of Creative Development at Condé Nast Entertainment, leading the creation of digital franchises like Wired's "Autocomplete Interviews", Vanity Fair's "Lie Detector Interviews", Glamour's "You Sang My Song", GQ's "Actually Me".
In 2011 Joe received a content innovation grant from YouTube to launch a music video channel called "CDZA" which involved 150 conservatory trained musicians, gained 300k YT subscribers in 18 months and performed alongside Arcade Fire and Lady Gaga during YouTube's first ever YouTube Music Awards, collaborating with Spike Jonze.
Joe is an advisor to Masterclass, The Moth, Outlier.org and Tonebase Piano. He runs his own creative strategy agency/production company called Studio Sabia, with clients like Audible, Youtube, Spotify, American Express, Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, Carnegie Hall, and UNICEF.
Joe is a lifelong classical piano lover and amateur pianist (and a member of the Franz Liszt Society, with his car's license plate reading "B LISZT"). He considers himself the unofficial cultural ambassador to the country of Georgia, has dual citizenship with US & Italy, gave a TED Talk, won an international pun championship and once drove from England to Mongolia in a small Fiat for charity. He splits his time between NYC and Dutchess county NY.
