Courtney Stephens

Birthday: 1981-05-23
Birthplace: Redwood City, California, USA
Gender: Female

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.

Credits

Year Title
2025-01-31 John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2024-08-11 Invention
2022-09-30 Lesser Choices
2021-03-29 Terra Femme
2020-09-06 Iris Season
2020-08-19 CINEMA-19
2020-07-17 Perfect Fifths
2020-02-21 The American Sector
2018-10-01 Mixed Signals
2017-06-30 Labial Quinet
2017-05-31 Mating Games
2017-05-06 Ida Western Exile