Stevens Signs with The Artists Company
Marcus Stevens, who has deep roots in the ad industry, brings his skills as a director and DP to a new US production roost.
Director Marcus Stevens Joins The Artists Company
Marcus Stevens has joined the directorial roster at the New York and L.A.-based production house The Artists Company. He basically grew up in advertising, and remembers as a teenager watching commercials screened on 16mm film and projected onto the living room wall by his stepfather, the San Francisco ad legend Hal Riney.
Stevens continued his interest in filmmaking, studying writing at the University of California in Berkeley and then film and screenwriting at UCLA.
After UCLA he began working in commercials on the post production side. Early in his post production career he was hired by the Director Joe Pytka, who shot many iconic spots for Riney's agency, to set up an in-house editing facility. For Pytka, Stevens worked on director's cuts but also on spots for air, including award-winning commercials for Memorex and Bud Light. Besides editing he worked as an assistant cameraman and operator for Pytka, and then received his first directing assignment, a PSA from Fallon in Minneapolis.
In his career as a commercial director and cameraman, Stevens has shot national and international spots for Visa, American Express, Boeing, Disney, Chase, UPS, Alka Seltzer, Michelob, Levis and GE, among many others. He works across the US as well as in Europe, the Middle East, Russia, Africa, South America, China, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. His work has been recognized at most of the major award shows, including Cannes, Clios, Mobius, the New York Festivals and the London International Advertising Awards.
In addition, Stevens is an award-winning novelist. His first novel, "The Curve of the World," was a BookSense Top Ten pick, an Amazon Editor's Choice, Book of the Month Club selection and was chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series. It was optioned for film by Working Title and translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Serbian and Dutch. His next book, "Useful Girl," was translated into Dutch and received the Montana Book Award. It was a Willa Literary Award Finalist and Western Writer's Spur Award Finalist.
Recently he's been commissioned to write a novella that will be released as an interactive iPad and iPhone app as the prequel to a major motion picture which will be going into production in early 2012.
Published 28 December, 2011
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