Stephen V. Stone

Filmmaker

Stephen is an award-winning filmmaker who created the first long form photoanimation film in history. His father purchased a manual 35mm camera for him when he was 12 and his love of images began. He set out to be an astronaut but a chance viewing of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in a public library at age 17 struck him like a lightning bolt and film has been his core passion ever since.
He has been the filmmaker (write/direct/DP/edit/post) on over twenty short narrative, documentary, experimental and animation films that have screened at numerous festivals and in cyberspace as well as co-produced/DP’d a low budget action horror feature.
He spent 15 years creating his multiplane photoanimation labor of love, “In Saturn’s Rings”, narrated by LeVar Burton, a science meets art documentary produced for giant screen and fulldome planetariums, currently in globally theatrical release.
He is currently the writer, director, and editor of a of microbudget narrative sci-fi feature film currently in post-production that also marks his on-screen debut as a lead actor as well developing an art-film narrative feature length version of “In Saturn’s Rings” and companion feature documentary about the 20-year odyssey to create the original film.
Although diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in 2021, he has transformed his work to allow his passion for filmmaking to continue including supporting the rights of all disabled artist. He lives in Greensboro, NC with his artist partner Marie Stone and three cats, Obi, Kylo & Gypsy.