Steve Hanft

Steve Hanft is a California native writer/director, known for creating original movies and videos. He first gathered momentum at California Institute of the Arts, where he studied art and film making, cranking out films and receiving several grants, including the Princess Grace Film Grant, the Kodak Cinematography Award, the Studio Film and Tape Film Grant, the Los Angeles Arts Council Grant, the Seagrams Film Award, and the Chouinard Film and Video Award. After graduating film school with a Master of Fine Arts, the prolific Hanft, has been shooting feature films, music videos, short films, and commercials, non stop. He has an MTV award for directing the Beck- Where It's At music video, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, for producing and starring in the Ray Ban short film- Sunglass Catch. Hanft's films have screened at the Rome Italy Film Festival, the South By Southwest Film Festival, the LA Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Brasil International Film Festival, the CMJ Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive New Filmmakers Event, and at the Don't Knock the Rock Film Festival in Hollywood.