Steve is a filmmaker/songwriter based in Nashville, TN. Most recently, he produced and directed "Ten Year Town," a Nashville music documentary. It features nine emerging Americana songwriter/artists. He is the writer/director/producer of the murder mystery THE WHITE ORCHID, starring Olivia Thirlby, John Carroll Lynch and Jennifer Beals. Steve also wrote, directed and produced THIS LAST LONELY PLACE, which stars Rhys Coiro, Xander Berkeley and Carly Pope and was a Kickstarter success story. He was writer/producer of THE RIVER MURDERS, starring Ray Liotta, Christian Slater and Ving Rhames. He produced/directed the very succesful released free speech documentary FUCK. His first film, THE BIG EMPTY Steve wrote and directed. It starred Jon Favreau, Kelsey Grammer, Daryl Hannah, Rachael Leigh Cook and Sean Bean. He is also quite proud of his "Special Thank You" credit on NAPOLEON DYNAMITE.

A Peabody Award winner, Steve has shot seven national documentaries for PBS and thousands of hours of broadcast television. He's been charged by lions on the Serengeti Plain, caught fire in the Malibu fires and rattled homeless by an earthquake. He's been blessed by Mother Teresa, drank martinis with Captain Kangaroo, flirted with Raquel Welch and smoked hash with Hunter S. Thompson. Steve's been trained as a Hollywood stunt driver, flown aerial acrobatics and shot hoops with Magic Johnson. He's been shot at in the L.A. riots, chased O.J. up the freeway and lounged in the grotto at the Playboy Mansion. Steve is one of the original guitarists and songwriters in the legendary upstate New York jam band Slipton Fell. He also makes a damn fine meatloaf.

Film Festivals

Steve's films have appeared at many prestigious festivals worldwide, including the Opening Night Film at SxSW, two red carpet premieres at AFI Fest in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Hot Docs Canada, Stockholm International Film Festival, Bangkok International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, True/False Film Festival, Humphrey Bogart Film Festival, GenArt NYC Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Silver Docs AFI, Florida Film Festival, Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, San Francisco Indie Fest, Newport Beach Independent Film Festival and many more.