• Source: Stefan Schaefer

      • Stefan Schaefer (born August 17, 1971) is an American writer, director and producer of films and television.


      Biography




      = Early life and education

      =
      Schaefer was born in Boston. He spent his childhood in Sussex, England, and his teenage years in Michigan and New York. He studied theater and political theory at Wesleyan University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. After a year and a half in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Kiel, he returned to New York and co-founded the production company Cicala Filmworks.
      He is the maternal grandson of polar explorer and ornithologist Carl R. Eklund.


      Career


      Schaefer's films have premiered and won several awards at festivals such as the Berlin International Film Festival and SXSW, [1] and have been released theatrically and via outlet plateforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO, PBS and the Sundance Channel.
      He has over fifteen feature film credits and has worked with Melissa Leo, Ali Larter, Zoe Lister-Jones, Ken Duken, Nicole Beharie, David Harbour, and Michael Imperioli. In addition to indie features, Schaefer and writing partner Chris Silber have written four TV movies for European networks ARD and ZDF, two of which were filmed in Hawaii.
      Schaefer directed the one-hour television documentary Contested Streets, which looks at what New York can learn from London, Paris and Copenhagen in terms of organizing its streets and public spaces. The film was screened at environmental film festivals and aired as part of "The Green" series on the Sundance Channel. In 2015, he released a feature documentary on Poet Laureate and environmental activist W.S. Merwin, titled Even Though the Whole World Is Burning. A one-hour version of the film, W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree, was broadcast on PBS in 2016.


      Filmography




      Awards and nominations



      2003 – Berlin Talents, Berlin International Film Festival
      2003 – New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Screenwriting
      2004 – Grand Prize in Digital Filmmaking from Apple and Panasonic
      2004 – Writer-in-Residence, Omi International Arts Center
      2005 – Best Screenwriter Hamptons International Film Festival, Confess
      2007 – Washington Jewish Film Festival: Audience Award Arranged
      2007 – Berkshire Int'l Film Festival: Audience Award Arranged
      2007 – Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival: Best Film Arranged
      2008 – Berlin International Film Festival: Teddy Award for Best Feature Film The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
      2008 – Skip City Int'l Film Festival: Grand Prize, $100,000 award for Best Film Arranged
      2011 – Brooklyn International Film Festival: Best Producer My Last Day Without You
      2011 – Big Island Film Festival: Audience Choice Award Get A Job
      2012 – Black Reel Awards: Best Original Song My Last Day Without You (nominated)
      2012 – Black Reel Awards: Best Independent Feature Film My Last Day Without You
      2018 – Writer-in-Residence, [an Cab Literary Residence]
      2018 – Maui Film Festival: Best Hawaiian Short Film I Am Because You Are
      2020 – Hawaii International Film Festival: Made-in Hawaii Best Feature Aloha Surf Hotel (nominated)
      2021 – Hawaii Film Critics Society: Best Hawaii Feature Film Aloha Surf Hotel (nominated)
      2022 – Individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts


      References




      External links


      Official website
      Stefan Schaefer at IMDb

    Kata Kunci Pencarian: