Joshua Seftel is an Academy Award-nominated director and producer known for directing the Emmy-winning groundbreaking series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Oscar-nominated short documentary Stranger at the Gate, Executive Produced by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, the feature film War, Inc. starring John Cusack, Marisa Tomei and Ben Kingsley, and the comedy series, My Mom on Movies he makes with his 86-year-old mother, Pat, which became a regular segment throughout the pandemic on CBS Sunday Morning. The New York Times wrote, "the word 'droll' seems as if it were invented for these two."
Seftel received his first Emmy nomination at age 22 with his documentary Lost and Found about Romania's orphaned children. The film led to the American adoption of thousands of Romanian orphans. He followed this with several documentaries including the political campaign film Taking on the Kennedys, selected by Time Magazine as one of the "ten best of the year"; the underdog sports film The Home Team which premiered at SXSW, and the behind-the-scenes film about Annie's Broadway revival It's the Hard Knock Life which the New York Times called "delightful." His 2016 award-winning documentary The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano, produced with Geralyn Dreyfous and Steve Tisch, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, won the IDA Documentary Award, and became the most viewed New York Times Op-Doc of the year.
