Stevie Szerlip

Stevie Szerlip is a screenwriter and filmmaker whose work evokes the lush, sensory world of a childhood bedtime story. Drawing on pop-culture memory to recast the familiar, her world-building interweaves narrative and the somatic, emphasizing the emptiness and malleability of place, and conjuring a mood that probes its limits with suspense and curiosity through a mix of media formats and a rich exploration of sound.

Stevie has directed commercial and narrative work that has been recognized at festivals and through individual awards and grants, including The Future of Film is Female grant in 2019. Her documentary-hybrid short, YOUNG FOREVER, premiered at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival and had a continued festival run in the US and abroad. Her debut short film, THE FOLLOWER, is an adaptation of a 1966 Joyce Carol Oates story. Distributed on Gunpowder and Sky’s ALTER, it has garnered over 1 million views on YouTube. She is currently in pre-production on her feature debut NATURAL DISASTERS, an ensemble thriller based on her childhood experience surviving a 1992 nor’easter that swept through her coastal hometown in New Jersey.  In 2018, Stevie was a producer on the feature film CLARA’S GHOST starring Chris Elliot and Haley Joel Osment, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

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