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Rick Stevenson is a writer, director, and producer from Seattle, Washington. In 2006, his film Expiration Date won both Audience and Jury Award for Best Film at the Omaha Film Festival and took Best Film honors at the American Indian Film Festival.[1] Stevenson will next work on Nine Mile Falls, a series of television adaptations of Deb Caletti's novels.[2]

In 2004, Stevenson founded TheFilmSchool with Tom Skerritt and Stewart Stern.

Background

Stevenson holds a DPhil from Oxford University, a master's degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelor's degree in history from Whitman College in Washington State.

Stevenson has lived his whole life in Richmond Beach, Washington, except for five years in England and four in Vancouver, for school.[3] He is married with four children.

Currently Stevenson is distributing top film festival movies through his company Official Best of Fest whose goals are to distribute the best movies people have "never" had the opportunity to see. He is also currently involved in the 5000 Days Project, a worldwide undertaking to document and understand the journey of becoming an adult.

Select filmography

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829037/awards
  2. ^ Arnold, William Paul Allen's next film projects are local, Seattle PI (25 July 2007)
  3. ^ Axmaker, Sean Rick Stevenson: "I love Seattle", Green Cine (8 September 2006)