Seth Michael Donsky is an Americanfilmmaker, screenwriter and journalist.
Biography
Seth Michael holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University where he twice received the Dean's Fellowship. He wrote and directed the feature filmTwisted and the short filmLoopy the latter his thesis film for graduation from Columbia. Donsky's Twisted premiered at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival was included in the Museum of Modern Art's Charles Dickens bicentenary film series and subsequently accepted into their permanent film collection. Twisted was the feature film debut of Tony-winning and Emmy nominated Billy Porter and the penultimate screen performance of Oscar-nominated and Emmy-nominated William Hickey. Twisted's theatrical run was met with great praise from critics such as Kevin Thomas in "The Los Angeles Times" and Bob Satuloff in Film Journal International . He was selected to direct two commercial spots, Love Thy Neighbor and History of the Movies, as one of ten national finalists for the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award Contest. His feature screenplay Grit N' Glitter was one of five finalists for the Enderby Entertainment Award in the 2018 Austin Film Festival for screenplays with a unique voice and distinct vision. The finalists were selected by Rick Dugdale, Donald Petrie and Daniel Petrie, Jr. of Enderby Entertainment. He has taught screenwriting at the New York Film Academy where he was chairman of the screenwriting department from 2004-2006, The Art Institute of New York City and in the MFA Screenwriting Program at Hollins University. As a journalist he contributed regularly to Gotham Magazine and Los Angeles Confidential magazine. He also contributed articles to womansday.com, the online version of Elle Decor and at pointclickhome.com, the online site for Metropolitan Home and to the Edge, an online LGBT portal. His 2009 New York Press cover feature The Trouble With Safe Sex,. The article was reprinted in Cleis Press after choosing it in its special series "Best Sex Writing of 2010". His 2010 New York Press cover feature Free at Las$t about debtors anonymous in New York City was recognized for excellence in coverage of business and financial news by the New York Press Association and prominently featured in the March/April 2011 Issue of Utne Reader. His work was also honored in the New York Press Association's 2010 Better Newspaper Contest for Excellence in Journalism. He currently lives in Venice Beach with his husband, Patrick Corbin.
