A Brief Summary of Steve's Professional History:
Professional History:
Steve attended college at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California where he studied sculpture and video production. He also spent a year at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, studying drama and photography.
In 1980, he started working in video production after teaching junior high school for several years. He worked as a freelance set designer and photographer for three years in San Francisco.
In 1986, Bank of America hired Steve to produce, photograph and present multi-image media.
In 1988, he shifted into videography, working as a cameraman, occasionally directing and producing as well.
In 1996, he returned to freelancing and has been shooting corporate, broadcast, commercial and documentary projects in the Bay Area and nationwide ever since.
Personal History
Steve was born in Minot, North Dakota, but lived in The Dalles and Corvalis, Oregon before moving to Berkeley, and then Davis, California just in time for 3rd grade. At age 12, his family moved to Dacca, East Pakistan (what is now Bangladesh) for 3 years and then Lahore, Pakistan for 3 more years before returning to the United States in 1970 to go to college in Oakland (see above).
Partial Client List:
9 Network Australia, 3Com, ABC, Applied Materials, Asahi TV, Bank of America, BBC, B.E.T., Calif. AAA, Cisco, CBS, Charlie Rose, ChevronTexaco, Comedy Central, Commonwealth Club, Compaq, Discovery Channel, Disney, Electronic Arts, Emeril Live, Ernst and Young, ESPN SportsCentury, ESPN Classic Biographies, Fox Sports, George Lucas, Gap, Hewlett-Packard, HBO, IBM, Kaiser, Ketchum Advertising, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Lucas Arts, Macy's Department Stores, Microsoft, MTV, NBC, NewsHour w/ Jim Lehrer, NHK, Nordstrom, nVidia, Oracle, PG&E, Pixar, Red Hat, Sally Jesse Raphael, SAP, SEGA, Seimens Corp., Sony, Sun Microsystems, SunDance Channel, Tandem, TV Tokyo, United Religions Initiative, United Way, U.S. AirForce, UPN, VA Linux, VISA, VH-1, Warner Bros., Wells Fargo Bank, ZDF (German TV).
Documentaries:
Steve has lensed many documentaries for independent producers such as:
"Old Soul, New Shoes" by Kit Fisher
"Fog City Mavericks" directed by Gary Leva, executive producer George Lucas, recently shown in the 2007 San Francisco Film Festival
"The Making of THX 1138" by Gary Leva
"The Legacy of Star Wars" by Gary Leva
"Bonneville: Wide Open" by Steve Davy and Benn Karne
"Mark Murphy, Biography of a Jazz Legend" by Dave Pistoni
Two documentaries for the hit B.E.T series “American Gangster”DVD Featurettes:
Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc.
Toy Story 2
The Incredibles
Lilo and Stitch
The Film Noir Box Set
The Maltese Falcon
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