- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Phillip Russell is an editor, producer and cinematographer who runs multi-award winning video production company, Thursday Shoots LLC along with Tom A. Capps, Kevin Etherson, Michael Mercadante, Charlie DesJardin, and their wider team. The group was founded in 2011 and incorporated in 2018. Their works have been featured on truTV, Above Average, Funny or Die, UCB Comedy, CollegeHumor, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Buzzfeed, Splitsider, IFC, and more. Their body of work work has been featured at over 100 Film Festivals or other big screen/televised events, been nominated for over 80 awards and taken home over 40 of them - and counting.
Phil also worked as the Production Coordinator and Post Manager on truTV's Impractical Jokers: Inside Jokes, the Post Supervisor on HGTV's 100 Day Dream Home and Lil Jon Want's to do What? and their repack shows, 100 Day Dream Home: Up for the Count and Lil Jon Wants to do What? After Party. He held this position at NorthSouth Productions from 2017-2023, and contributed to other television shows produced by the company including Impractical Jokers, Impractical Jokers After Party, Discovery+'s House Haunters, and more. In 2023, he started at Movers+Shakers as their Sr. Video Editor.
He studied the art of cinematography under the personal tutelage of Sol Negrin, ASC and Alec Hirschfeld while attending Five Towns College, which he graduated from in 2013. He also has experience working in film education; after graduating Five Towns hired him as a Professor and the Operations Manager of the Film/Video division. He also worked as their promotional video producer before moving on to more directly peruse his film-making career.
- IMDb mini biography by: Phillip Russell
- RelativesJames Russell(Sibling)
- Phil attended Carson-Newman College in Tennessee for one semester before transferring to Five Towns College in New York, his home state.
- Phil was employed at Five Towns College as the film division's operations manager before he graduated in his senior year, and held the position full time after graduating before moving on to peruse his film career independently.
- Phil used to compete in local tournaments for the "Super Smash Brothers" series on Nintendo platforms, and even placed in a few to take home small cash prizes.
- In 11th grade, Phil Co-directed and shot a 22 minute short comedy called "A Day in the Life of a CIA Agent" in video class for his teacher, Peter May.
- Phil started making movies in 5th grade on a small consumer digital camera.
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