Joshua Seftel

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joshua Seftel
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jul 17, 1968(1968-07-17)
Age	56
Birthplace	Schenectady
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Cancer

Joshua Seftel Biography

Joshua Seftel is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on July 17, 1968 in Schenectady, New York, United States. Joshua Seftel (born July 17 1968) is an American filmmaker from the United States. He resides at New York City and is represented by Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles. Seftel began his documentary career at the age of 22 by directing his Emmy-nominated feature, Lost and Found, which focused on Romania’s orphaned kids. The film was followed by a number of films, including the political election film Taking on the Kennedys, picked as a result of Time Magazine as one of the “ten best of the year” as well as the sports drama that is underdogs The Home Team which premiered at SXSW and the behind the scenes documentary about Annie’s Broadway revival called It’s the Knock Life that was described by the New York Times called “delightful.” Seftel’s debut foray to comedy Breaking the Mold, earned him a place in the cult festival circuit and attracted the attention of the filmmaker Alexander Payne, who championed his work as director. Seftel was later commissioned to direct the political comedy War, Inc. starring John Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack along with Ben Kingsley which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Seftel continues to produce work in documentary films mini-series, as well as commercially-branded content, with works like his latest film, The Secret Life of Muslims.

To be part of This American Life, Seftel produced a radio documentary from 1997 named Trek which explored friendship and race within the post-apartheid period of South Africa. He also wrote an episode titled “Still Life” in episode # 2 “My Way” for This American Life the show on television that was telecast in 2007 on Showtime on the 7th of July in 2007. Seftel has also transformed NPR’s well-known This I Believe series from radio to public television for WGBH Boston. Seftel’s articles and short stories have been published by NPR, Salon.com, and The Seattle Times.

After seeing the film Breaking the Mold, director Alexander Payne championed Seftel as a director of features and put him in touch with John Cusack and Mark Leyner who were taken with Seftel’s work. This led to Seftel directing the feature film War, Inc., starring Cusack, and co-written by Leyner, Cusack, and Jeremy Pikser. War, Inc. premiered at the 7th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in April 2008 and played nationally in theaters. The movie is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a fictional country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former US Vice-President (Dan Aykroyd). In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation’s CEO hires a troubled hit man (Cusack), to kill a Middle Eastern oil minister. Struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation’s Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter (Marisa Tomei) in check.

In 2010, Seftel produced Invitation to World Literature, a 13-part docu-series for WGBH that explored the themes of great literature from around the globe. Subjects included composer Philip Glass, actress Kristin Chenoweth, actor Alan Cumming, Nobel-Prize winning novelist Orhan Pamuk, and author Francine Prose.

The year 1996 was the time Seftel was the producer of Taking on the Kennedys for the PBS series P.O.V. that focused on the presidential campaign of Republican Candidate Kevin Vigilante as he challenged Patrick J. Kennedy for an U.S. Congressional seat in Rhode Island. The fight against the Kennedys was featured in TIME’s list of “The Best Television of 1996” and is also featured within P.O.V.’s 20th Anniversary Collection DVD set.

Joshua Seftel Net Worth

Joshua Seftel is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joshua Seftel 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born from Schenectady, New York, Seftel graduated from Tufts University in the class of 1990. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Arts of French Literature and having completed the prerequisites in pre-medical science. While studying at Tufts University, he studied abroad in Paris, France at Wesleyan University in Paris as an undergraduate student in French historical and literary studies in 1988. The following year, he attended Columbia’s National Arts Journalism Program (NAJP) in New York City as a mid-career fellow from 2002 to 2003.

Old Warrior, (1994) Seftel’s upcoming film is an investigative documentary on the untold background of the Senior Citizens Power Movement and its founder, Frank J. Manning and was awarded the Gold Plaque at the Chicago International Film Festival and was shown through Public TV.

Seftel was awarded a National Arts Journalism Fellowship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Columbia University School of the Arts in 2003.

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Seftel began his career in documentaries at age 22, receiving a National Emmy Nomination for his first film, Lost and Found: the Story of Romania’s Forgotten Children, a documentary about the plight of Romania’s 120,000 orphaned and abandoned children. Seftel lived in orphanages for several weeks while shooting the film. The Public Television broadcast of the film, which Seftel made for only $2,000, led to hundreds of adoptions of Romanian orphans and helped raise money and awareness for the cause.

Facts & Trivia

Joshua Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Joshua Seftel celebrates birthday on July 17 of every year.