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Born 1981 (age 44) · Redwood City, California, USA
Appears in 18 titles

Courtney Stephens (US) is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her non-fiction and experimental films address the contours of language, historical memory and women's lives. Her work has been exhibited at the Berlinale, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the National Gallery of Art, South by Southwest, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hong Kong, Camden, Mumbai, Luxembourg, Dhaka and San Francisco International Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a California Humanities Grant, fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Pocantico and the Sloan Foundation and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's twenty-five "New Faces of Independent Film." A graduate of the American Film Institute, she co-founded the Los Angeles microcinema Veggie Cloud and has curated film programs for The Getty Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, UnionDocs and Flaherty NYC.

Filmography

Invention
5.5
Invention
2025
Director
Lesser Choices
6.0
Lesser Choices
2022
Director
Mating Games
6.0
Mating Games
2017
Director
Ida Western Exile
5.0
Ida Western Exile
2017
Director
Perfect Fifths
6.0
Perfect Fifths
2020
Director
Terra Femme
Terra Femme
2021
Director
Iris Season
2020
Director
The American Sector
The American Sector
2020
Director
Labial Quinet
Labial Quinet
2017
Director
Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals
2018
Director
CINEMA-19
CINEMA-19
2020
Director
Fourteen variations on the intimate
Girls Dance at the World’s Fair