Steven Hoban was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1964 to Kenneth and Francoise Hoban, and spent his childhood moving between various countries due to his father's employment with the Canadian Foreign Service.
Prior to his career as a film producer, Hoban held various roles, including serving as Vice President of Business Affairs at a completion bond company, co-founding and running an animation studio and R&D facility for Imax Corporation, and producing Imax(R)3D films, feature films, short films, and animated films.
As the founder of Toronto-based film and television production company Copperheart Entertainment, Hoban has produced numerous successful feature films, including the Academy Award-winning computer-animated short, RYAN, the cult hit trilogy GINGER SNAPS, the Vincenzo Natali-directed HAUNTER starring Abigail Breslin, and SPLICE starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley.
Recent feature films produced by Hoban include the action thriller WOLVES starring Jason Momoa and Lucas Till, written and directed by David Hayter (X-MEN, WATCHMEN),the science fiction horror DEBUG written and directed by David Hewlett (Stagate Atlantis),and the horror film A CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY, which Hoban also co-directed, starring William Shatner.
On the television side, Hoban's most recent production is the urban chiller DARKNET, created by Hoban and Vincenzo Natali, along with several other projects in active development, including the HBO dramatic television series SHAKEDOWN with James Ellroy and David Fincher, INCARNATE, a supernatural horror series executive produced by Clive Barker.
Hoban continues to produce films at his Toronto-based company Copperheart Entertainment, exploring a wide range of genres and styles in his work as a film producer.
