Stephen Winter, the award-winning filmmaker, writer and artist, photographed Pam Johnson for issue number 4 of Thing back in 1991.
He went on to write, produce and direct his 1996 debut feature film Chocolate Babies, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won Honorable Mention and Audience awards at San Francisco Frameline, SXSW, Urbanworld and OutFest. Stephen’s second feature film was Jason and Shirley (2015), co-written and co-starring artist Jack Waters, and playwright and journalist Sarah Schulman.
Chocolate Babies Q&A with Stephen Winter and Jeremy O. Harris
Richard Brody in The New Yorker called Chocolate Babies “one of the year’s finest” films. As producer, Stephen’s first film was Jonathan Caouette’s landmark “narci-cinema” feature documentary Tarnation. He has worked creatively with Lee Daniels (Precious, Paperboy, The Butler), John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus), John Krokidas (Kill Your Darlings), David France (How To Survive A Plague) and Xan Cassavetes (Kiss of the Damned).
In the podcast arena, Stephen is directing the science fiction drama The Space Within for Topic Studios, starring and executive produced by Jessica Chastain with Bobby Cannavale, Michael Stahlberg, Sturgill Simpson, and Jessica Wu. In 2018, with Tristan Cowen, Stephen co-wrote and directed the pioneering fiction podcast series Adventures in New America, an afro-futuristic political satire for the Night Vale Network. In “The Best New Social Thriller is a Podcast,” an article by the New York Times, critics compared the show to Boots Riley and Jordan Peele.
Read an interview with Stephen at www.interviewmagazine.com/film/stephen-winter-and-lee-daniels-trade-tales-of-breaking-in-and-breaking-out.
