Joseph Huff-Hannon

JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON is an award-winning writer and producer with a background in documentary film, book publishing and political campaigns.

JOSEPH HUFF-HANNON is an award-winning independent journalist, writer and producer with a background in documentary film, book publishing and political campaigns, and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Joseph is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, and has traveled and worked extensively in Latin America and elsewhere.

JOURNALISM

His work appears in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, GOOD, The Nation, The Huffington Post, The Advocate, Dissent, NY Press, The Indypendent, and a variety of other online and print outlets. In 2008 one of Joseph’s stories, about the impact of predatory lending on seniors in New York City, was a finalist in the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, "the nation’s largest all-media, general reporting prizes for professionals under the age of 35," and was awarded a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism "for a local view of a national crisis."

FILM

In 2009 Joseph was Outreach and Distribution Director for the national theatrical campaign of award-winning documentary film, The Yes Men Fix the World. In the spring of 2008 he was the field producer on location for a short film on the political battle surrounding a mega-dam project in the Brazilian Amazon, "Battle for the Xingu," which makes its festival premiere in 2009.

In 2006-2007 Joseph was a producer in New York and Buenos Aires on Who Am I?, a documentary film commissioned by Channel 4 (UK) and directed by award-winning filmmaker, Estela Bravo (www.estelabravo.com/whoami.html). The film, which explores issues of memory and identity in the shadow of ongoing human rights trials in Argentina, premiered at the Havana Film Festival in 2007, where it won best documentary award.

In 2003 and 2004 Joseph worked as a translator and researcher on The Take (www.thetake.org), an award-winning documentary film shot in Argentina and commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), directed by Canadian journalists Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein.

PUBLISHING

From 2005-2007, Joseph worked at The New Press, a NY-based not-for-profit book-publishing house with a public interest mission, and publisher of many greats in journalism, history and politics—including the late Studs Terkel (www.thenewpress.com).

As an undergraduate at Hampshire College he studied political science and foreign language, and was involved in various student led campaigns against sweatshop labor, aid cuts to low-income students, and environmental destruction.