Steven Haft is an American media executive, attorney and film producer.
Biography Haft was born in Manhattan and raised in Flushing, Queens, the son of Helen (née Urdang) and Nathan "Nuddy" Haft.- He is a graduate of Hofstra University School of Law and is a member of the bar of the U. S. Supreme Court. After studying, Haft produced films for over 20 years including Jakob the Liar and Dead Poets Society.
In 2000, he accepted a position with AOL as vice president and chief strategy officer for its $1.2 billion in sales Interactive Marketing Group. He left AOL to found the media consultancy company Indyworks, which focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on media. His clients included Comcast Cable, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the College Television Network, AirMedia, Edelman and Burson-Marstellar. He is the senior vice president of innovation for the magazine publisher Time Inc.
Philanthropy and civic service Haft has been involved in environmental issues, human rights and arts in education since the 1970s. He sat on the board of United States' variant of the TerraMar Project, which was a United Nations NGO that promoted the Clean Oceans provision of the Sustainable Development Goals program, until TerraMar (US) announced that it had ended operations on July 12, 2019, after the sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, became public.-
Haft is an advisory board member of the Global Partnerships Forum, which acts as an intermediary linking business entities, government agencies and the United Nations to develop shared goals and efforts. He is an elected member of the Motion Picture Academy and a trustee emeritus of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and was appointed by the New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, to the board of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Corporation. He is vice chair of the Presidential Scholars Foundation, is a STEM advisor to the Center for the Study of The Presidency & Congress and has done work for the John D. Rockefeller III Fund, the John Hay Whitney Foundation, the United Automobile Workers and the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a co-founder of the original Earth Day in 1970.
Personal life He is divorced from the author Lisa Birnbach; they have three children, one of them being Sam Haft of the Living Tombstone. He attended the Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan.
Filmography He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film Year Film Credit 1987 Beyond Therapy 1988 Mr. North 1989 Dead Poets Society 1993 Hocus Pocus 1996 Last Dance Emma 1999 The Third Miracle Jakob the Liar The Bumblebee Flies Anyway 2000 Beautiful Joe Tigerland 2003 The Singing Detective 2004 Eulogy 2007 Intervention Executive producer 2017 Three Christs 2022 Hocus Pocus 2
As writer
Year Film 1996 Last Dance
Television Year Title Credit Notes 1983 Nightcap 1985 The Recovery Room Executive producer Television pilot 1992 Stormy Weathers Television film American Playhouse 1994 The Spider and the Fly Television film 1995 The Courtyard 1996 The Ultimate Lie 1997 A Match Made in Heaven 1998 Rear Window 1999 Pirates of Silicon Valley Strange Justice 2001 America Undercover Documentary No Ordinary Baby Television film 2002 Warning: Parental Advisory 2005 Making Your Fortune Online with Marsha Collier Documentary 1995−2008 Mad TV Co-executive producer
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