STEPHEN BELBER
Writing & Directing
Match
Written and Directed by Stephen Belber
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino, Matthew Lillard
As a couple interviews a renowned dance professor for their dissertation, their probing questions soon betray a hidden agenda.
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“Writer-director Stephen Belber's inspiriting, generous Match is so good that it's like some kind of trick.”
-- Village Voice
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Stream at: Netflix
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Permut Presentations, Sentinel Pictures, Tilted Windmill Productions, Whitewater Films
Management
Written and Directed by Stephen Belber
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson
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When a traveling saleswoman meets a lonely motel manager, they have a one-night stand, but he decides to pursue her and change both their lives.
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“Management avoids the standard rom-com clichés in favour of something more delicate and heartfelt.”
-- Times (UK)
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Stream at: tubi
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Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment, Echo Films
What We Do Next
Written and Directed by Stephen Belber
Starring: Michelle Veintimilla, Karen Pittman, Corey Stoll
A New York City politician is forced to navigate her complicated past with a young woman recently released from prison and corporate attorney. Power constantly shifts among the three characters as they fight for their version of the truth
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"Powered by the performers and Belber’s intelligent script, What We Do Next is an intricately drawn microcosm of the country’s dynamics of power."
-- New York Times
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Stream at: Tubi
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Unbridled Entertainment, Mangano Movies & Media
Writing
O.G. - Writer
Directed by Madeleine Sackler
Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Theothus Carter, William Fichtner
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A convicted killer who has spent 24 years behind bars finds his parole threatened by his effort to help a brash young inmate.
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“Every cliché and nearly every expectation that comes in a
typical prison film is stripped away. What’s left is an unshakable performance, and a sense that you’ve seen a piece of cinematic art that isn’t fiction or nonfiction, but somewhere in between.”
-- San Francisco Chronicle
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Stream at: HBO
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Great Curve Films, Brookstreet Pictures
Tape - Writer
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
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Three friends reunite to resolve painful drama from high school as each character is provoked into revealing his or her true nature and motivation.
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“Steeped in venom, deception, and manipulation, Tape is a three-way volley of mind games in which an adolescent grudge assumes the complexion of a festering wound.”
-- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Stream at: tubi
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Detour Filmproduction, IFC Productions, InDigEnt, Tape Productions Inc., The Independent Film Channel Productions
Drifting Elegant - Writer
Directed by Amy Glazer
​Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Josh Stamberg, Jennifer Mudge, Coby Bell
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An exploration of race and intimacy in post 911 America that follows a journalist, his wife and best friend, as they grapple with the blurred boundaries between their personal and professional lives and with their growing sense of isolation from one another.
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“An engrossing drama…by sharp dialogue, perfs and
direction.”
-- Variety
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Buy or Rent at: Amazon
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SouthBay Film Studios, Spartan Film Studios
The Laramie Project - Associate Writer
Directed by: Moisés Kaufman
Associate Writer: Stephen Belber
Starring: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant
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What happens to an American town when a terrible crime rips it apart and thrusts it into the national spotlight? That is the question that led a New York City theatre troupe to the town of Laramie, Wyoming, to seek out residents whose lives were changed after a gay college student named Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead off a rural road.
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“The bottom line is the piece works brilliantly.”
-- Hollywood Reporter
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Stream at: HBO
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Cane/Gabay Productions, Good Machine, HBO