Joel Haver (born February 13, 1996) is a Canadian-American YouTuber and filmmaker, best known for his rotoscoped skits and low-budget feature-length films. Haver typically plays multiple roles in acting and production–most notably in a 12 movie anthology released throughout 2024. He has worked in film, voice-over, and TV productions, recently voicing the character Waterboy in the 2025 video game Dispatch.
Life and career Haver was born to Canadian parents on February 13, 1996, in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada. He grew up in Belchertown, Massachusetts, and has an older brother. Haver studied film at the Pratt Institute in New York City, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in filmmaking in 2018.
Haver produces comedy sketches and independent films, frequently using rotoscoped animation, a form of animation created by tracing on top of filmed footage. His films are known for their low-budget style, with Haver typically playing multiple roles in acting and production. In addition to his own channel, he has contributed to films, voice-overs, and TV productions, most notably in the video game Dispatch.
Haver has hosted an annual "Movies Shot During the Oscars" film festival, in which he encourages independent filmmakers to shoot feature-length films during the broadcast of the yearly Academy Awards ceremony. Throughout the year, in 2024, Haver published a film anthology of 12 movies, each movie being shot and edited in the span of approximately one month. He noted that he is passionate about making filmmaking more accessible.
In July 2022, Joel Haver published the "Toilet Paper Bears" comedy sketch on his YouTube channel, depicting a dispute between the Charmin Bears family, in which the son confronts his father about his dream to be a dancer, to his father's disappointment. Later that year, Saturday Night Live aired the "Charmin Bears" sketch, with similarities to Haver's video. Notably, a young bear confronts his father about his dream to be a dancer, the bears are colored blue, and the father and the son wear similar attire. In late July, following the SNL airing, Haver published a video entitled "SNL stole my video". Despite the title, he denied accusations of theft, rather attributing the similarities to parallel thinking. Haver remarked, "If I still was a smaller creator, which I was for a long time, I could see it rubbing me the wrong way."
Filmography +Directed features Year Title2016 We Are Sasquatch2017 31 Days in Marshall, North Carolina2019 Island Taking a Little Time to Feel Sorry for Myself I'M GOING TO BE FAMOUS - The Movie2020 Forget About Everything for Awhile Pretend That You Love Me2021 A Simple Smash and Bash Job Gone Wrong Drowning in Potential2022 The Bad Guy, The Wolf and the Surprise PartyWe Have to Leave Here Together2023 Things Could Always Be Worse goodlongpee the movie2024 The Hero's Journey aka My Life aka The Caleb Johnston Story (I'm Caleb) Anyone Else But Me The Text Hello My Beautiful CreaturesIt Just Takes TimeHiccupsThe Diarrhea Brothers Save the DayLove, Celeste The 9th Movie A Little Film About FriendshipYou're Point Girl Coming Home2025 The CallThe Womanizer 2026 The Email
+Other contributions Year TitleRole2020 Sheep TheaterActor2021Off the AirDirector, Actor, Animator2022 Making YoutubeActor The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!Actor, Guest AnimatorKiller ThrillerActorHigh on LifeVoice Actor2024 Smiling FriendsActor, Guest Animator Hello My Beautiful CreaturesAnimation, Soundtrack2025 DispatchVoice Actor (Waterboy)
References
External links Joel Haver at the Internet Movie Database