Justin Wilkes

President
@Radical Media

Justin leads a team of producers, directors, digital artists, and creatives in developing and producing the next generation of entertainment and brand-driven content. Under his leadership and thirteen-year history with the company, @radical.media has achieved a constant stream of success. He has mastered the art of storytelling across multiple forms of media, and is constantly exploring and expanding the boundaries, in collaboration with networks, studios, brands and agencies.  

In his role as President and as an accomplished Producer himself, he has extensive experience in television production, live entertainment, digital platforms, feature films, documentaries, branded content, and high-profile mainstream episodic TV.  As a result, he has been the recipient of numerous entertainment and advertising accolades including multiple Cannes Lions, Clios, an NAACP award and two recent primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Recently, Justin executive produced the Academy-Award and Emmy nominated documentary, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory and produced the Emmy-winning Paul Simon/Graceland documentary, Under African Skies.  Other recent projects include the hit ESPN 30 for 30 Documentary, You Don’t Know Bo, the Emmy-Nominated OWN series, Oprah’s Master Class, six seasons of the critically acclaimed series Iconoclasts for Sundance Channel, two seasons of GT Academy for Spike (and Nissan & Sony), Rising Icons for Vevo, Unstaged for American Express and three films for the nation of Qatar that helped secure their 2022 World Cup Bid.

Additionally, Justin and his team produced Demi Lovato: Stay Strong, Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside, Nicki Manaj: My Time Now, Drake: Better than Good Enough and Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro, five award-winning television documentaries for MTV. Other projects include the Britney Spears documentary Britney: For The Record for MTV and the award-winning feature documentaries, Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful for Showtime, Joe Berlinger’s Crude, Rent: Live on Broadway for Sony and Jay Z in Fade to Black for Paramount Pictures.  Justin is currently producing (along with Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment) the Ron Howard directed Made In America, a film that documents the historical Jay Z/Pearl Jam Made in America concert in Philadelphia.

Justin and his team launched the Sting 25 app, a comprehensive “appumentary” for the ipad in collaboration with the musical artist Sting and THNKR, a first of it’s kind YouTube channel that gives extraordinary access to the people, stories and places that will change your mind.  Additionally in the digital space, Justin is Executive Producing a slate of programming for the Condé Nast digital channels, Vogue, Vanity Fair and Wired.   

Justin is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and prior to joining @radical.media, Justin had the unique opportunity to work for The Walt Disney Company in its Broadway production unit.