Explore Joshua Seftel net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! 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. In this article, we will discover how old is Joshua Seftel? Who is Joshua Seftel dating now & how much money does Joshua Seftel have?
| Name | Joshua Seftel |
| First Name | Joshua |
| Last Name | Seftel |
| Occupation | Film Director |
| Birthday | July 17 |
| Birth Year | 1968 |
| Place of Birth | Schenectady |
| Home Town | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Pat Seftel, Lee Seftel |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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. 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.
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.
Joshua Seftel Net Worth
Joshua 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: January 13, 2024)
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.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Film Director |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
After his success with Ennis’ Gift, Seftel went on to direct and produce an hour-long PBS documentary, It’s the Hard-Knock Life about the revival of the classic musical “Annie” being directed by Broadway legend, James Lapine in 2013. In 2014, his short documentary The Home Team premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and screened at numerous others including Sarasota, Nashville, and AFI Docs. The Home Team documented the last game of the season for the Murray State Racers, the biggest night of the year in tight-knit, all-American Murray, Kentucky. 2015 brought two very fruitful projects for Mr. Seftel: The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano, a 2016 New York Times Op-Doc, as well as Zain’s Summer. In The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano, which was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Seftel and photographer, Phillip Toledano explore a series of ways that Mr. Toledano can die, using makeup and photographs to simulate every potential outcome. Zain’s Summer follows a young Pakistani immigrant who has a very short time to adjust to life in America.
Seftel’s next film was Ennis’ Gift, an HBO documentary released in 2002 about learning differences produced with Bill Cosby and wife Camille Hanks in memory of their late son Ennis, which featured Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, Anne Bancroft, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Schwab and Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce). It has been called “inspirational” by The Boston Globe and received the 2002 Literacy in Media Award from the Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles.
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Seftel broke into scripted film work with Breaking the Mold: The Kee Malesky Story that told the fictional story of one young librarian’s quest to defeat toxic, asthma-inducing mold. The title character borrows the name of real-life NPR librarian Kee Malesky. The humorous film originated when Maryland Public Television asked Seftel to make a fictional piece about indoor air quality for middle-school aged children. The film played at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the Newport International Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival and won the Jury Prize at the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. Breaking the Mold was shown at the One Reel Film Festival in Seattle where director Alexander Payne was a judge.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Joshua Seftel. You may help us to build the dating records for Joshua Seftel!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.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
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After Seftel’s experience with WGBH and This American Life, he went on to produce Lidia Celebrates America in 2011-2012. In this mini-series produced for PBS, celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich and special guests Stanley Tucci, Mo Rocca and Mario Batali explore how immigrants have preserved their unique culinary traditions for generations. The project was nominated for both a James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Award for Special/Documentary and a Silver Telly award.
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.
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