Stefan Schaefer Email & Phone Number

Stefan's films have premiered and won awards at festivals such as the Berlinale, SxSW, Hawaii Int'l, and the Hamptons, among many others, and have been successfully released theatrically and on NetFlix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Hulu, Starz, PBS and the Sundance Channel.He has over fifteen feature film credits to his name as a writer, director and/or producer, among them ALOHA SURF HOTEL, MY LAST DAY WITHOUT YOU, THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT QUEEN RAQUELA and ARRANGED. On these and other projects he's worked with Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, Ali Larter, Zoe Lister-Jones, Ken Duken, Nicole Beharie, Michael Imperioli and David Harbour. Over the years, Stefan has sold TV shows to companies such as Warner Bros., Sony Pictures TV, AMC Studios, The Weinstein Company, and Big Beach. He’s also written four TV movies for leading European networks ARD and ZDF, two of which filmed in Hawai’i. On the documentary front, Stefan directed the film CONTESTED STREETS, which screened widely at environmental film festivals and aired as part of "The Green" series on the Sundance Channel. In 2016, he released a feature doc on Poet Laureate and environmental activist W.S. Merwin, entitled EVEN THOUGH THE WHOLE WORLD IS BURNING. A one-hour version of the film, W.S. MERWIN: TO PLANT A TREE, was broadcast nationally on PBS.CURRENT PROJECTS: - Writing a feature for Warner Bros. - Post-production on doc / series EPIC SWIM MAUI - https://www.epicswimmaui.com- Post-production on the feature comedy ONE MILLION DOLLA Stefan is a frequent collaborator with Olaf de Fleur, Chris Silber, Kristiana Kahakauwila, Thomas Pa’a Sibbett, and Diane Crespo, with whom he founded the New York-based Cicala Filmworks. An active member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), he's is managed by LA-based Industry Entertainment.He was born in Boston, spent his childhood in Sussex, England and his adolescent years in Detroit and New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he studied political theory and theater. Prior to founding Cicala Filmworks, he studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and worked as a journalist. OFFICAL WEBSITE: - https://www.stefancschaefer.com