Steve Stockman is the President of Custom Productions, Inc., where he has created over 250 projects in feature film, television, music video, web and commercials.

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TV and Web Credits include writing, directing and EP/Showrunner for $24/24, and Kitchen Think at Food Network, and the Comedy Central digital series Gnarnia; Creating and Executive Producing 3 seasons of Brew Dogs (showrunner Season1) for NBC/UNI, Dogs Of War on A&E, and Discovery Channel’s 3-season hit series, The Devils Ride.  He’s also sold projects that never saw the light of day to A&E, AMC, BET, CMT, History Channel and Food Network.

 

In the marketing world, he’s worked with personalities like Ryan Seacrest and Bobby Bones to develop branding strategy; with brands like Saatva.com, Chefsteps.com, Breville, Anchor Brewing, Microsoft, Hearst, Village Roadshow and Disney to develop programming, commercials and web campaigns; and companies like Amgen to develop marketing strategy.

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Steve wrote, produced and directed the award-winning MGM feature film Two Weeks, starring Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Tom Cavanagh, Julianne Nicholson, Glenn Howerton and Clea DuVall.

 

He is the author of How to Shoot Video that Doesn’t Suck, the world’s best-selling book about directing and cinematography, with over a quarter of a million copies sold in 9 languages as a print edition (from Workman Publishing), an audio book, and video course.​

 

He serves as a faculty member and President of the Board of Trustees of the Summer Stars Foundation, a non-profit performing arts program for disadvantaged youth, and is past President of the Board of the Westside Waldorf School in Pacific Palisades, CA .  He is a life member of the Creative Education Foundation and on the faculty of their training institutes.

 

He is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, RI.