Jim Butterworth

Jim Butterworth is an American technology entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker, and former investment banker and venture capitalist. He is the president and founder of Naked Edge Films, which has produced more than thirty documentaries that have won an Oscar, two Alfred I. duPont Silver Batons, a Peabody, and have been nominated for six Emmys. He also is the co-founder of the nonprofit documentary production company Incite Productions, and a director and producer of the award-winning film Seoul Train. He is the inventor of 53 U.S. and foreign patents in the field of streaming media that are generally considered among the most cited and relevant intellectual property with respect to streaming.

In 2007, he was awarded the Dartmouth College Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award. In 2008, he was inducted into the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni. He formerly served on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board and is a Member Emeritus of the Georgia Tech ISyE Advisory Board.

Early life and education Butterworth graduated from Leon High School, the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College with a Masters of Business Administration.

Butterworth is an Eagle Scout.

Career

Filmography + Title Year Producer Director Camera Other Notes Seoul Train 2004 Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award — Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story 2006 Alfred I. duPont — Silver Baton War Don Don 2010 Nominated for two Emmy Awards The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan Donor Unknown Tribeca Online Festival Award and Silverdocs Audience Award To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America 2010 Sundance Film Festival Gone 2011 Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle Code of the West 2012 CINE Golden Eagle Award The Revisionaries Alfred I. duPont — Silver Baton and Tribeca Film Festival Special Jury Award Saving Face Academy Award, Best Documentary Short; Winner of two Emmy Awards including Best Documentary Petey & Ginger In Country 2014 Silenced Nominated for an Emmy Award The Mind of Mark DeFriest Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four 2016 United Skates 2018 Call Her Ganda The Feeling of Being Watched The Infiltrators 2019 2019 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award Always in Season 2019 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award Blessed Child Red Heaven 2020 The Jump Pray Away 2021 The Man of the Monkey Delikado 2022 Nominated for Emmy Award Loudmouth Nominated for Emmy Award Night in West Texas 2025 Who Killed Alex Odeh? 2026 2026 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award