Brian Oakes is the director of the Academy Award nominated JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY. JIM was Oakes’ directorial debut which also won the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. His most recent directing projects includes three episodes of the Netflix series ABSTRACT: THE ART OF DESIGN on typography designer Jonathan Hoefler, Nike sneaker designer Tinker Hatfield and stage designer Es Devlin. Oakes also directed two episodes of t