Benny Safdie Father: Who Is Alberto Safdie?

Alberto Safdie is the father of the filmmaker duo, Josh and Benny Safdie.

Who Is Alberto Safdie?

Alberto Safdie who is a Sephardic Jew of Syrian-Jewish descent was raised in France and in Italy. Alberto’s parenting skills and a love letter to their own father, who taught them a great deal about living in the moment and the illusiveness of reality. “He planted a seed of reflection in us,” says Josh in a phone conversation.

Alberto is probably responsible for igniting the filmmaking bug in his sons by shooting hundreds of hours of home movies of them as children.

The Safdies are co-founders of Elara Pictures, a production company founded in 2014. The company produced the Safdies’ feature films Heaven Knows What, Good Time, and Uncut Gems, Owen Kline’s feature film directorial debut Funny Pages, and the HBO television series Chillin Island

Their breakthrough work came in 2017 with the ethereal heist film Good Time and they later received national recognition for Uncut Gems.