About

About Joe Seldner

Joe Seldner is a writer, producer, journalist, and media, entertainment and business veteran who has produced movies and television for HBO and independently, been creative executive to actor Tom Hanks, Assistant to the President of Columbia Pictures, and does extensive script consulting to clients around the world.

He was a Fellow at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute in 2022-2023 and is continuing to write and develop multiple film and television projects.

He began his career as a journalist, earning a Pulitzer Prize nomination. His work – then
and since - has been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles
Magazine and dozens of other publications. He has been a blogger for the Huffington Post

He has provided strategic communications advice for media companies, given dozens of seminars on screenwriting and idea development, been a judge and panelist at the Ivy Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and Bahamas Film Festival, and worked with scores of writers, actors and producers.

Joe climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2013 (artificial hip and all!), played touch football regularly into his 60s, and is always learning and seeking new challenges and adventures.

In addition to the Stanford fellowship, he has an MBA from Yale University and degrees in journalism and psychology from Columbia University.

He raised his children on his own from very young ages.