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Joshua Seftel

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  • Born
  • July 17, 1968
  • Place of birth
  • Schenectady, New York, USA

Biography

Joshua Seftel (born July 17, 1968) is an American filmmaker. Born in Schenectady, New York, Seftel graduated from Tufts University in the class of 1990 as a pre-med and French literature major. He currently lives in New York City and is represented by Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles, California. Seftel directed the feature film comedy War, Inc. (2008), a political satire about an American assassin sent on a mission to a war zone in Central Asia, starring John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Joan Cusack, and Ben Kingsley. He also directed the award-winning documentary about American campaign politics, Taking on the Kennedys.

On the crew 13

NOVA scienceNOW poster
NOVA scienceNOW
2005
All the Empty Rooms poster
All the Empty Rooms
2025
War, Inc. poster
War, Inc.
2008
Breaking the Mold: The Kee Malesky Story
2003
Ennis' Gift
2000
Stranger at the Gate poster
Stranger at the Gate
2022
What Will the Future Be Like?
2012
The Steepest Climb: How Delta Air Lines Navigated the Global Pandemic poster
The Steepest Climb: How Delta Air Lines Navigated the Global Pandemic
2023
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage poster
ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to Stage
2013
Taking on the Kennedys poster
Taking on the Kennedys
1996
The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano poster
The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano
2015
Where Did We Come From? poster
Where Did We Come From?
2011
A Century of Flight poster
A Century of Flight
2025