Josh Safdie
Birthday: Born in 1984-04-03 in New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: Alive
Joshua Henry Safdie (born April 3, 1984) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter, best known for his work with his younger brother, Benny Safdie, as one half of the acclaimed Safdie Brothers. Together, they developed a reputation for raw, urgent storytelling in films such as Heaven Knows What (2014), Good Time (2017), and Uncut Gems (2019). In 2024, it was reported that the Safdie Brothers would no longer co-direct and would instead pursue solo projects. Josh’s first feature since the split is Marty Supreme, starring Timothée Chalamet, scheduled for release on December 25, 2025.
TV Credits
Togetherness
Character: Craddock Brother #1
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive....
The Neistat Brothers
Character: Self
Following Casey and Van Neistat, The Neistat Brothers is a autobiographical documentary following the lives and adventures of the two brothers. The series follows their travels around the world and New York as they tell their stories about six week chunks of their lives in their signature vlog-like style...
Mr. Scorsese
Character: Self
Explore the many lives of Martin Scorsese through intimate interviews with the man himself, access to his private archives, plus conversations with Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, and more....
Movie Credits
Behind the Soundtrack: 'Uncut Gems' with Daniel Lopatin
Character: Self
Alongside filmmaker Josh Safdie, composer Daniel Lopatin sat down with us to detail the creative discoveries behind his synth packed score for Uncut Gems. In this exclusive documentary, Lopatin highlights the soundtrack's extensive use of Moog One and how he used the instrument to craft the film's most dramatic moments....
The Pleasure of Being Robbed
Character: Josh
Mumblecore movie about a young woman named Eleonore who wanders New York City committing acts of theft....
The Weeknd: 103.5 Dawn FM
Character: Arthur Fleminger (voice)
Live performance broadcast of The Weeknd's album Dawn FM....
The Back of Her Head
Character: Him
This is a story about a man, who lives above an older Hindi man, who lives above a delinquent British man, who lives above a girl. It is the back of her head that he is in love with....
We're Going to the Zoo
Character: The Hitchhiker
This is a story about a real life brother and sister and their journey to the zoo. On their way, they accidentally pick up a hitchhiker....
Second Stop from Jupiter: The Making of Daddy Longlegs
Character: Himself
A documentary chronicling the production of Daddy Longlegs....
10 Crosby
Character:
A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City....
This Summer Feeling
Character: Thomas
In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York....
Yeast
Character: Riverguy 1
A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships....
The Universe Is Out There: Josh and Benny Safdie
Character: Self
Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers’ early features and shorts. Produced by the Criterion Channel for their "Meet the Filmmakers" series....
Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman
Character: Bruce
A young woman invites a vagabond to stay the night at her house but her feelings of insecurity threaten to overshadow the visit....
The Ralph Handel Story
Character: The Director (voice)
Co-directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, this deadpan mock-documentary follows Ralph Handel, a buttoned-down office worker who spends his nights bombing on the open-mic circuit. Staged as cinéma vérité that edges into performance art—Safdie performed the disastrous sets in real clubs—the film channels Andy Kaufman’s anti-comedy and the self-reflexive diary mode of David Holzman’s Diary to sketch a sly portrait of a life quietly coming undone....
Gone Tomorrow
Character:
A short film by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, & Alex Kalman....
Daddy Longlegs
Character: Chris
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives....
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Character: Fighter
When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set in Far Rockaway, Queens, in the days leading up to Hurricane Sandy, these parallel stories of mother and son take the viewer on a touching journey of community and connection in and below New York City....
My Art
Character: Tom
A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent....
Taking Woodstock
Character: Documentary Cameraman
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself s...
Hellaware
Character: Gallery Patron
Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows...
Ezer Kenegdo
Character: Levi
Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk seeks to destroy a lifetime's worth of his own work. As the visit progresses, Izzy and Marek discover for the first time that complex historical baggage impinges on their curious friendship and, soon, they begin to understand why Kierk is driven towar...
Hellaware
Character:
Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows...
A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What
Character:
The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes....
Question & Answer
Character: Self
The Safdie brothers go undercover to record an interview with Adam Sandler, the star of their film UNCUT GEMS....
The Adventures of Slater's Friend
Character: 2nd Cameraman
A film crew trails Philbert Powell through his morning, from the supermarket to his job at a video store. Along the way, he crosses paths with several individuals all named “Slater.” His interactions with them raise the central question: who, among those Slaters, is his friend? The narrative unfolds across a single morning, blending encounters and identity as Philbert’s journey reveals the shifting dynamics of connection....