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Josh Safdie

Josh Safdie is an American director and scriptwriter and is best known for Good Time (2017). Together with his brother and frequent collaborator Benny Safdie, there were born in New York and living between their father in Queens and their mother in Manhattan. Josh and Benny began making movies at a young age, inspired by their film-enthusiastic father. Josh attended Boston University and began making short films at a young age. In 2007, Partners & Spade co-founder Andy Spade commissioned Josh Safdie to create a short film to promote Kate Spade Handbags. Together, Josh and Benny and their cohort submitted instead a feature-length script, which they began shooting with Spade's support. The film premiered at SXSW in March 2008. It also played at the Cannes sidebar Directors' Fortnight, along with a short film The Acquaintances of a Lonely John directed by Benny. Their second feature film, Daddy Longlegs, premiered at the Director's Fortnight at Cannes under an alternate title Go Get Some Rosemary in 2009 and played its American debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Lenny Cooke, their first full-length documentary premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. Also premiering at the Venice Film Festival was their feature film Heaven Knows What (2014) where it won the C.I.C.A.E Award. The Safdies received great critical acclaim and much wider attention with their crime-thriller Good Time (2017) starring Robert Pattinson as a low-life conman, trying to get his brother, played by Benny, out of prison. It premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Cannes Soundtrack Award.


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Born:
Apr 3, 1984 In New York City, New York, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
16
First Appeared:
In the movie Gone Tomorrow
Latest Project:
Movie The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM 2022-01-07
Known For
Poster of My Art
Poster of Taking Woodstock
Poster of Yeast
Poster of The Back of Her Head
Filmography
Movie Gone Tomorrow 2025
Movie The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM Arthur Fleminger (voice) 2022-01-07
Movie The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie Self 2017-10-03
Movie My Art Tom 2016-09-05
Movie This Summer Feeling Thomas 2015-10-11
Movie Stand Clear of the Closing Doors Fighter 2014-05-24
Movie Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman 2013-06-20
Movie Hellaware 2013-06-22
Series The Neistat Brothers Self 2010-06-05
Movie Daddy Longlegs Chris 2010-05-14
Movie Taking Woodstock Documentary Cameraman 2009-08-26
Movie The Pleasure of Being Robbed Josh 2008-10-03
Movie Yeast Riverguy 1 2008-03-10
Movie The Back of Her Head Him 2007-01-20
Movie We're Going to the Zoo The Hitchhiker 2006-06-23
Movie The Ralph Handel Story The Director (voice) 2006-01-01