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Steven Paul Hanft (born in May of 1966), also known as Steve Hanft, is an award winning director, filmmaker, and photographer. Recently as of 2022, he has started showing short films every week in a series called Film Show on his YouTube channel.

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Early life

Steven Paul Hanft was born in Ventura, California where he started making films at the age of eleven. He studied film at CalArts,[1] where he made his first feature film, Kill the Moonlight.

Career

Hanft is best known for directing music videos for the Cure, Primal Scream, Delinquent Habits, and Beck, most notably "Loser" and "Where It's At", the latter of which won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1996.

In 2001, Hanft released his second feature film Southlander at South by Southwest. The film was made from a ten page story by Ross Harris and Steve Hanft. [2]

In 2011, Hanft released his third feature film, a music documentary Return of the Rub-a-Dub Style, about the original sound system reggae artists performing in Los Angeles. The film screened at Anthology Film Archive in New York, and Don't Knock the Rock Film Festival, in Los Angeles,[3] and was released to DVD in 2011 on the [4] Stones Throw Records website and Ernie B's Reggae site.[5]

Hanft also plays in bands, including Arrowhead Man, Loser, Liquor Cabinet, Sexy Death Soda, and April March.

References

 6. https://www.youtube.com/user/StevenHanftFlims

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