Josh Greenbaum is an Emmy Award winning director working across narrative, documentary, television, and commercials. His feature documentary THE SHORT GAME won the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival and was acquired by Netflix to launch their Originals film division. His next two feature docs, BECOMING BOND and TOO FUNNY TO FAIL, together launched Hulu’s Original Documentaries label and picked up another SXSW Audience Award. In the narrative space, he recently directed BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR, the forthcoming feature comedy written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo for Lionsgate, and is attached to direct an adaptation of the bestselling children’s book FLAT STANLEY for 20th Century Fox. In addition, he has written and developed film projects for Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures.
In television, Greenbaum is the creator and director of the Emmy nominated Hulu Original series BEHIND THE MASK as well as Nickelodeon’s MAX AND SHRED , and is currently Directing and Executive Producing a premium sports documentary series for Netflix. He has written and directed projects for ABC, CBS, Fox, Comedy Central, and the CW, as well as dozens of short films, most recently for the Clinton Foundation and Funny or Die starring Matt Damon, Ben Stiller, Kevin Spacey, Sean Penn, Jack Black, Bill Clinton, Kristen Wiig and others.
Greenbaum has also directed award winning commercials for Dove, AT&T, ESPN College Gameday, Converse, Carhartt, and has directed top name talent such as Ben Affleck, John McEnroe, Matt Damon, and most recently a commercial starring Arnold Schwarzenegger that garnered 17 million hits in less than two days.
Greenbaum is a graduate of Cornell and Oxford Universities and received his MFA in film from the graduate program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.
