Stephen Winter

Stephen Winter
Filmmaker, Writer and Producer

Stephen Winter is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and writer whose 1996 debut feature film Chocolate Babies has been restored by UCLA/Outfest and is currently featured on the Criterion Channel. In 2023 Stephen directed the science-fiction drama podcast The Space Within, starring and produced by Jessica Chastain, also starring Michael Shannon and Ellen Burstyn for Topic Studios, and Audible. Stephen co-created and directed the 2018-19 Afro-futuristic political satire podcast: Adventures in New America, which the New York Times compared to Boots Riley and Jordan Peele. As film producer Stephen produced Jonathan Caouette’s landmark 2004 documentary Tarnation, which premiered at Sundance, Cannes and NYFF. Other film collaborators include Lee Daniels, John Cameron Mitchell, Allan Hughes, Gus Van Sant, Patrik Ian Polk, Zoe Cassavetes and Bridey Elliott. As film story editor, Stephen worked with David France on How To Survive A Plague (2013), which earned an Oscar nomination for Outstanding Documentary. Playwright Jeremy O. Harris has called Stephen “The father of modern Black Queer cinema.”