Talent Guide

Mora Stephens

  • Discipline:Director
  • Program Year:Directing Lab 2004, Fast Track 2004

Bio

Mora is a recent alumna of the prestigious Graduate Film Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has directed numerous short films and plays, including Breaking Bread which aired on Showtime in September 2003 as part of the Reflections from Ground Zero series. She co-wrote the independent feature Heaven’s Pond, released on DVD by Artisan Entertainment in December 2003. Her short film, The Twenty, recently premiered at the Anthology Film Archives, as part of the RIPfest film festival. She graduated with honors from Princeton University where she received her BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Current Project

Georgia Heat (Narrative Feature)

Logline

A Korean G.I. wife, living in Georgia in 1968, finds herself caught between her American family and her distant past when she learns that the son she left behind in Korea thirteen years earlier is coming to visit her.