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.
“Writer-director Stephen Belber's inspiriting, generous Match is so good that it's like some kind of trick.”
-- Village Voice
Stream at: Netflix
Permut Presentations, Sentinel Pictures, Tilted Windmill Productions, Whitewater Films
Management
Written and Directed by Stephen Belber
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson
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.
“Management avoids the standard rom-com clichés in favour of something more delicate and heartfelt.”
-- Times (UK)
Stream at: tubi
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
"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
Stream at: Tubi
Unbridled Entertainment, Mangano Movies & Media
Writing
O.G. - Writer
Directed by Madeleine Sackler
Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Jeffrey Wright, Theothus Carter, William Fichtner
A convicted killer who has spent 24 years behind bars finds his parole threatened by his effort to help a brash young inmate.
“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
Stream at: HBO
Great Curve Films, Brookstreet Pictures
Tape - Writer
Directed by Richard Linklater
Written by Stephen Belber
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
Three friends reunite to resolve painful drama from high school as each character is provoked into revealing his or her true nature and motivation.
“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
Stream at: tubi
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
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.
“An engrossing drama…by sharp dialogue, perfs and
direction.”
-- Variety
Buy or Rent at: Amazon
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
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.
“The bottom line is the piece works brilliantly.”
-- Hollywood Reporter
Stream at: HBO
Cane/Gabay Productions, Good Machine, HBO