Courtney Stephens
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2026Girls Dance at the World’s Fair
Director
2025John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Director & Writer
2025Invention
Director & Writer
2023Fourteen variations on the intimate
Director
2022Lesser Choices
Director
2021Terra Femme
Director
2020The American Sector
Director & Screenplay
2020Perfect Fifths
Director
2020CINEMA-19
Director
2018Mixed Signals
Director
2017Ida Western Exile
Director & Writer
2017Mating Games
Director
2017Labial Quinet
Director
2010Equestrian Sexual Response
Screenplay