ACCEPTED
Coney Island Film Festival Brooklyn New York September 20th
ACCEPTED
Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film Chapel Hill North Carolina September 25th
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Brooklyn New York May 7th to May 11th
ACCEPTED
Langston Hughes African American Film Festival Seattle Washington April 26th to May 4th
THE WAVES my first short film is now complete. I have a final cut which I agonized over as a first time editor but I feel this cut is bona fide. The film has been entered into several Festivals.
Now onto my new film projects and a continuation of my video experiments. Many many thanks to Cast and Crew.
2013
With the Oscar Nominations announced I thought about what films have stayed with me. Many of them were not on the Oscar list so I wanted to give them shine. There are many I missed and many I am suppose to have loved but the films that follow are in my opinion unique and lasting.
Blue Caprice
Neighboring Sounds
The Act of Killing
Upstream Color
The Place Beyond the Pines
Crystal Fairy and The Magical Cactus
Stroker
Wolf of Wall Street
Post Tenebras Lux
Simon Killer
Notable Mention
* James Franco’s Monologue “Look At My Shit” – Spring Breakers
Gimme the Loot
Room 237
Berberian Sound Studio
A Band Called Death
Salinger
We Are What We Are
To Be Seen and Esteemed
Short Term 12
Four
Bastards
Any Other Suggestions Appreciated..
Editing my first short film:
The Waves
Output from Premiere Pro to Large Screen. It’s coming together. So excited. Can’t wait to make more..
This is where I’ve been. Looking in the clouds, waiting for a train not really moving.
I have love, hate and awe for this city. I love it in the summer when it’s empty and hot.
VENISE STEPHENSON FILMMAKER 
