Steve Hoban

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Steven Hoban
Born1964 (age 5859) [1]
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [1]
Occupation Film producer
Known for Splice , Ginger Snaps , "Ryan"

Steven "Steve" Hoban (born 1964) is a Canadian film producer. He has been nominated for three Genie Awards and won another. He has collaborated with Vincenzo Natali, David Hewlett, and Chris Landreth on multiple films. He is perhaps best known for Splice and the Ginger Snaps trilogy.

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Biography

Steve Hoban was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in 1964. [1] Hoban told Screen International that his favorite film is Taken , but not for creative reasons; Hoban said that he admires the film for its repeatable business model and success at the American box office despite its lack of traditional indicators of success. [2]

Career

Hoban and director Vincenzo Natali are friends and have collaborated on several films, [3] including Nothing , Splice , and Haunter . Hoban has also collaborated with Chris Landreth on animated shorts, including The Spine and Ryan , which won an Academy Award. [4]

In 2001, Hoban co-founded 49th Parallel, a Montreal-based film production company. Among the early projects that they produced was Natali's 2003 film Nothing and Landreth's 2004 short Ryan. [5] Hoban's new company, Copperheart Entertainment, is based in Toronto. [6]

In 2013, he collaborated with Natali again to produce and direct the television series Darknet . [7] This was his directorial debut. [8]

A television adaptation of William Gibson's The Peripheral was put into development in April 2018, [9] with Hoban an executive producer. [10]

Awards

YearFilmAwardResultRef
1997 Elevated Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama Nominated [11]
2005 Ryan Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Animated Short Won [12]
2010 The Spine Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Animated ShortNominated [13]
2011 Splice Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture Nominated [14]

Filmography

Films

Producer Credits
TitleYearNotes
Half Nelson1992Short
Blood and Donuts 1995
Elevated 1996Short
Paint Misbehavin'1997Short
Ginger Snaps 2000
CyberWorld 2000Short
Nemesis Game 2003Executive producer
Nothing 2003
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed 2004
Ryan 2004Short
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning 2004
Alter Egos 2004Documentary about the making of Ryan
Black Christmas 2006
Young People Fucking 2007
Paradise2007Short
The Spine 2009Short
Splice 2009
388 Arletta Avenue 2011
Haunter 2013
Subconscious Password 2013Short, executive producer
Wolves 2014
A Christmas Horror Story 2014also director
In the Tall Grass 2019

Television

TitleYearNotes
Darknet 2013Also director
The Peripheral 2022

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