Born in Louisville, KY and raised south of Nashville, TN, Ballard C. Boyd is a product of the American South.
He has developed and directed commercials and branded content for international brands including Google, Captain Morgan, Mountain Dew, PETCO, Popular Mechanics, and Rounder Records.
His narrative work has been broadcast on Comedy Central, HBO Family, Logo, ESPN.com, and NBC.com, and screened at over 4 dozen film festivals.
Ballard attended Emerson College in Boston, Mass. where he graduated magna cum laude in 3 1/2 years with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film. Following college, Ballard worked at the human consciousness think-tank Integral Institute, as director & manager of the company’s in-house video production company, at the age of 23.
In 2008, he moved to New York City and began a hard push toward directing with the “quantity over quality” approach to improving his craft. Within the next year, and with over 50 viral videos under his belt, his music video “Ode To Kulele” by Mal Blum was awarded as one of the Top 10 Music Videos of 2009 (#10), by the viewing audience of MTV/Logo’s The Click List.
He has directed and produced programs spanning the divide from commercials to music videos, branded content to independent shorts. His work has been featured by the press in Advertising Age, Creativity Online, SlashFilm, MediaBistro, and The Huffington Post.
His work in viral videos has been featured on the front pages of ComedyCental.com, Atom.com, NBC.com, ESPN.com, YouTube.com, SuperDeluxe.com, and dotcomedy.com.
Ballard C. Boyd currently lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, NY and plays the ukulele.
(Top Photo by Josh Behan.)