Seth Michael Donsky
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Seth Michael Donsky is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and journalist.
Donsky was born in Champaign, Illinois to Aaron Donsky and Wendy Arbit. He was raised by his mother and stepfather James Hite in Riverside, CA. He holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University where he twice received the Dean's Fellowship. He currently lives in New York City. He wrote and directed the 1997 feature film Twisted and the 2004 short film Loopy, the latter his thesis film for graduation from Columbia.
Donsky's Twisted was re-discovered by the Museum of Modern Art in 2013, included in their Charles Dickens bicentenary film series http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1339 and subsequently accepted into their permanent film collection.
He was selected to direct two commercial spots, Love Thy Neighbor and History of the Movies, as one of ten national finalists for the 2000 and the 2003 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award Contest.
He has taught screenwriting at the New York Film Academy and was chairman of the screenwriting department from 2004-2006. He currently teaches at The Art Institute of New York City and is also a visiting adjunct in the MFA Screenwriting Program at Hollins University.
In 2008, he collaborated with the Calgary Men's Chorus writing and narrating their adaption of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
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