Steven Farneth
Head of Finance, Senior Executive, Cinetic Media
About Speaker
Steven Farneth is a Senior Executive at Cinetic Media, where he supervises the company’s Los Angeles office and serves as Head of Finance and as a literary and talent manager, reflecting the company's multi-disciplinary approach to representation and finance. Farneth oversees all aspects of developing, raising and structuring project finance for Cinetic clients, while also focusing on domestic and international sales and overall analysis and corporate strategy work for film funds, producers, and financiers. He has been instrumental to the finance and distribution of projects including 100 Foot Wave; The Babadook; Cartel Land; Everybody Wants Some; A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night; Maggie’s Plan; Super Troopers 2; The Kids Are All Right, and forthcoming projects by Todd Haynes, Matthew Heineman, Lyric Cabral, Bradford Young and Jonathan Hock, among others. Farneth Executive Produced the Academy Award winning Best Picture Green Book, as well as Land, directed by and starring Robin Wright, MLK/FBI directed by Sam Pollard, A Mouthful of Air, directed by Amy Koppelman and starring Amanda Seyfried, and a forthcoming feature written and directed by Bill Burr. He was profiled in Variety's 2013 “Global Finance Impact Report”. Prior to joining Cinetic in 2006, Farneth was at ThinkFilm. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Swarthmore College and a M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.