Steph Green

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Steph Green , born as Stephanie Ann Green (born August 12, 1979 in San Francisco ) is an American-Irish film director and screenwriter . Her short film Der Neue was nominated for an Oscar in 2009.

Live and act

Steph Green was born in the United States, but is of Irish descent and moved to Ireland around 2001 after studying at Northwestern University . There she completed a film degree at University College Dublin , which she completed with a master's degree. During her studies, she created her first short film Copywrite using footage from Illinois , which screened at several festivals and earned her first attention in the film industry.

After graduating, she recorded three spots for the Irish charity Simon Community, which is committed to helping the homeless. These were shown at the 2004 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and the Young Guns Advertising Awards. In the same year she shot the short film Push Hands in Dublin . She then went to Los Angeles , where she assisted director Spike Jonze in the production of commercials for two years . Then she began to create her own advertising clips. She worked in Australia, Ireland and the USA. In 2006 her IKEA commercial Cover Up was nominated for the Cannes International Advertising Award.

After reading Roddy Doyle's story, New Boy , Green contacted him to film the story . She wrote the script with Doyle's advice and directed the short film based on it. Her film Der Neue (original title New Boy ) is about an African boy who is new to an Irish school class and has been shown at over 20 international festivals. In 2009 she was nominated for an Oscar in the Short Film (Live Action) category together with the producer of the film Tamara Anghie .

In 2013, Green's first full-length feature film was released in cinemas, Entirely and Right in the Middle . The film drama premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival . It is about a family struggling with the aftermath of a stroke that their father suffered.

In 2014 Green returned to the States from Ireland and began a career as a TV director. She completed programs at Fox 20 and CBS and, with the support of Dan Attias, got the opportunity to direct an episode of the FX series The Americans (2016). Further assignments as a television director followed, including the series You're the Worst (2017), The Man in the High Castle (2018) and Watchmen - Die Wächter (2019). She also directed two episodes of The L Word: Generation Q (2019), including the leading premiere episode .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New Boy (PDF; 117 kB) berlinale.de, accessed on January 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Exclusive: New Boy Director Steph Green comingsoon.net, accessed January 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Steph Green tiburonfilmfestival.com, accessed January 2, 2013.
  4. ^ Advance Party Directors Announce New Rules For their Films. In: irishfilmboard.ie. ( Memento from March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Meet the 2013 Tribeca Filmmaker # 28: Steph Green Explores A New Kind of Romance in "Run & Jump". indiewire.com, accessed January 2, 2013.
  6. ↑ Danielle Turchiano: The L Word: Generation Q Director on Show's Message of There's a Beautiful Place for You. In: Variety . December 2, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Green, Steph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Stephanie Ann (full maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Irish screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco