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Joshua Seftel
Born July 17, 1968 in Schenectady, New York, USA12 films
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.
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First watchAll the Empty Rooms20257.2A journalist and a photographer set out to memorialize the bedrooms left behind by children killed in school shootings.View filmEssential films
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12 films as director- 2025A Century of FlightDirector
- 2025All the Empty RoomsDirector
- 2023The Steepest Climb: How Delta Air Lines Navigated the Global PandemicDirector
- 2022Stranger at the GateDirector
- 2015The Many Sad Fates of Mr. ToledanoDirector
- 2013ANNIE: It's the Hard-Knock Life, from Script to StageDirector
- 2012What Will the Future Be Like?Director
- 2011Where Did We Come From?Director
- 2008War, Inc.Director
- 2003Breaking the Mold: The Kee Malesky StoryDirector
- 2000Ennis' GiftDirector
- 1996Taking on the KennedysDirector