Stéphane Dumonceau – Director/Producer/Editor – was a multiple award-winning commercial, music-video and film editor for 20 years before making the jump to director. He started his editing career at FCB/San Francisco, creating work for Levis, Fox Sports, and MTV. He then went on to edit at Mad River Post/New York for 6 years, Final Cut Edit/NY and LA for 5 years, and most recently at Cosmo Street Editorial.
As director, he joined Moxie Pictures in the fall of 2015, and has helmed ads for Twitter, Microsoft, EA, KY Jelly, Barnes & Noble and The Mill Valley Film Festival; as well as the award-winning short films BEST MAN WINS and RUFUS. BEST MAN WINS, starring Tim DeKay (WHITE COLLAR, CARNAVALE, SECOND CHANCE), and international stars Francois Vinçentelli and Nadia Farès, had its World Premiere at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, and went to play at 21 other festivals, winning 6 awards along the way. The film was also featured in American Cinematographer Magazine’s November 2015 issue, the only short to be included, and has been one of the top-selling shorts on iTunes. RUFUS, stars Heather Lind (star of the AMC’s series TURN and DEMOLITION), Becky Ann Baker (GIRLS, FREAKS AND GEEKS, SPIDERMAN) and Aimee Mullins, and premiered at the LA Shorts Fest in August of 2017.
As editor, he has collaborated with some of the most visionary directors in the business, including Errol Morris, Mark Romanek, Spike Lee, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, Michel Gondry, David Gordon Green, Derek Cianfrance, Henry Alex Rubin, David Slade, Peter Thwaites, Nicolai Fuglsig, Traktor, Fredrik Bond, The Malloys, and Michael Haussman; working on such brands as Levis, Nike, ESPN, Budweiser, and EA, and with top agency talents at Wieden & Kennedy, Crispin, Deutsch, Droga5, 72 and Sunny, BBH, Mother, The Martin Agency and Anomaly. He has been recognized by both the AICP and AICE for his editing work, which has played during Super Bowls, Oscars and the MTV Music Awards; has won Lions at Cannes and been Emmy-nominated; and his sound design lauded by publications like SHOOT Magazine.
In writing, he has authored multiple feature screenplays, two of which have been optioned. In terms of education, Stéphane originally studied directing and cinematography at San Francisco State University and NYU’s School of Continuing Education, acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Atlantic Theater Company in NY, and improv at BATS in San Francisco. He was mentored in screenwriting by Frank Daniel (founder of the Sundance writing program, co-founder and first dean of AFI, former dean of Columbia and then USC’s Graduate Writing Program); and in cinematography by Ricardo Aronovich, AFC.
More recently, he has sharpened his directing of actors skills with renowned coaches Judith Weston, Mark Travis and Joan Scheckel; and has shadowed Directors/Executive Producers Stephen Cragg and John Terlesky on multiple episodes of the Viola Davis show HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER.
Stéphane is currently directing and producing BASKETBALL DIPLOMACY, a feature documentary; and was scheduled to direct the thriller, LITU, in the summer of 2020, but production has been delayed due to Covid-19.