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Stephanie is a filmmaker currently based between Los Angeles and Cyprus. Her films have sought to further performance as a function of documentary and often explore anti-imperialism, survival and zombie late capitalism.

She gained her BA in Fine Art with a focus in video art and sculpture in the U.K. before crossing the pond to receive an MFA in Computer Art from the School of Visual Arts in 2012.

She has worked as an editor for over eleven years on documentaries that have screened at Sundance, True/False, Tribeca, Full Frame, New York Film Festival and Rotterdam as well as Academy Award nominated for Best Feature Documentary - TIME. 

In 2017 she was UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow where she made two short films about artist and organizers. In 2019, she became a Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow and was on the screening committee for the True/False Film festival. She was chosen for the 2021 cohort of the Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and attended the 2022 Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab as well as the True/False Film Festival and Catapult Film Fund Rough Cut Retreat. She’s received support from The Gotham, New York State Council for the Arts and the Sundance Institute for her film FREEDOM IS A PLACE.

Her debut feature documentary, WOMEN WALK HOME, has been pitched at Ji.hlava International Documentary Festival’s New Vision Forum, NBC’s Original Voices Program at DOCNYC, AGORA Pitching Forum at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival and was a Spotlighted project at last years Cannes Docs. The film picked up three awards with the Documentary Association of Europe, Aylon Digital Production Services and Cannes Docs. The film has also been awarded the prestigious co-production grant from the European Commission's Creative Europe MEDIA program.