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Stephen
began his career in 1995 with a series of award-winning guerrilla
films and the creation of an acclaimed festival: Persistence
of Vision that featured the work of his and other emerging directors.
In 1996, Stephen's Channel Zero emerged as the first "TV Album."
The inaugural release, Planet Street, won international distribution
and critical acclaim which led to over $1.7M in private investment.
Distributed in Tower, Virgin and HMV record stores around the world,
Channel Zero became an underground hit and one of the first successes
of the small-format video revolution. The Village Voice wrote, "Leave
it to a Canadian to revolutionize television." The Toronto
Star called Channel Zero, "A mind blowing trip, one neither
CNN nor 60 Minutes would ever take."
In 1997, Marshall produced the provocative series The Electronic
Eye: Canada as a Surveillance Society for the CBC's The National.
Most recently, Stephen has teamed up with New York television producer
Josh Shore to co-found Guerrilla
News Network. A music-driven, hi-impact alternative to network
news, Stephen is GNN's Strategic and Creative Director.
Throughout his career, Stephen has traveled and worked in over 40
countries.
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. 2001
Crack The CIA - Executive producer, director, co-editor.
A Hip Hop breakdown of the CIA's involvement in narcotics trafficking,
the L.A. riots and the Prison Industrial Complex.
Countdown - Director, editor. A hi-impact video scratch to Beastie
Boy Ad Rock's remix of Ralph Nader's Message to America.
. 2000
The Diamond Life - Executive producer, director. GNN's inaugural
video focuses on the brutal atrocities committed by Sierra Leone's
RUF rebel army and links to the de Beers diamond cartel . Music
by Peter Gabriel.
The Most Dangerous Game - Executive producer, director, editor.
The history of top secret CIA mind control operation MK-ULTRA cloaked
in GNN's text-driven design aesthetic. New York Underground Film
Festival (2001), HBO's PS2001 Phat Shorts Film Festival.
. 1997
The Electronic Eye: Canada as a Surveillance Society - director,
writer, executive producer. Featuring John Ralston Saul and a smattering
of Canada's most persuasive intellectuals in Channel Zero's controversial
national broadcast debut. The National. Domestic video release.
Dr. Dove - executive producer. Too radical for television...
This courageous one-woman (director Milka Stanisic) tour through
Bosnia challenges the U.S. and German role in funding & covering
the "War." Limited video release.
Communique - executive producer. Also too radical for television...
A how-to guide for revolutionaries: three college students encounter
the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. Featuring Noam Chomsky,
a rare interview with leader Commandante Marcos, a rock star, and
a Myriad of international political and media commentators... All
cloaked in Channel Zero's trippy design aesthetic. Limited video
release.
. 1996
Planet Street - director, editor and producer. Ten countries:
crack houses, revolutionaries, gigolos, Nazis, Triads, a soundtrack
and Neil Postman. Wide video release. (2.2 hours)
This Is Channel zero - writer, director, producer. Twelve
countries, a soundtrack, Benetton's Oliviero Toscani and the global
media revolution. Wide video release. (2.2 hours)
T(Here) - super 8 shooter, executive producer. Michael Downing's
exquisite dance tryptich. Bravo!, Moving Pictures Festival.
.1995
Dancefront - co-director, editor and producer. with Michael
Downing. CBC's
Adrienne Clarkson Presents..., Moving Pictures Festival.
Dreamer - director, editor, producer; Gold Prize, RDTV national
awards.
Tranchant a la Main - director, editor, producer. Award of
Merit, RDTV national awards.
Persistence of Vision - founder, editor. A festival for short
films made under duress.
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