Stephen Natanson has directed and produced documentaries, publicity, documentaries, fiction, shorts, features, animation, tv series, magazine sections, news for the last 30 years. Based in Rome he has shot film and video around the world working with the major Italian, European and American tv broadcasters. He has directed more that 300 spots, promotional and corporate films for FIAT, TIM, Playtex, BNL, ENI, Colgate-Palmolive, Ferrovie dello Stato, Alitalia, Q8, UN/FAO, Caritas Internationalis, Italian Ministry of Health and of Culture.
His films have been shown or been in competition at the Venice, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, London, Montreal, Toronto, Hong Kong, Auckland, Mumbai, Doha, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires film festivals. He has been nominated for all three of the Italian cinema industry major awards, winning two of them, as well as more than 20 best film awards at film festivals worldwide.
He has also worked as cinematographer or editor for several hundred films, documentaries, shorts, publicity, videos and tv programs. His photographs have been published by Time, Life and all the Italian national papers etc.
He is a graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and the American Film Institute – Center of Advanced Film Studies in Los Angeles and has taught filmmaking, directing and new media technology at various universities and at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia since 1995.