Stephen Cone

Stephen Cone is a South Carolina-raised, Chicago-based filmmaker whose feature Princess Cyd recently appeared on Vanity Fair's Ten Best Films of the 2010s after appearing on multiple Best of 2017 lists including IndieWire, Vulture, Vanity Fair, Vox and NPR and screening at dozens of festivals worldwide including the BFI London Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, Frameline and Maryland Film Festival. It was acquired for distribution by Wolfe Releasing and is now streaming on Hulu. Previously, his film Henry Gamble's Birthday Party, also streaming on Hulu, was featured in The New York Times "Anatomy of a Scene" series, screened within BAMcinemaFest and BFI Flare, and was the winner of the Silver Q Hugo Award at the 2015 Chicago International Film Festival. His film The Wise Kids won the Outfest Grand Jury Awards for US Feature and Screenwriting in 2011 and was a New York Times Critics Pick. Stephen has recently received early-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Berlin's Unknown Pleasures festival, and Manchester, England's Bigger Than Life. Stephen's sister Christina Cone is a singer/songwriter in Nashville, where she fronts the band Frances Cone. His parents, Frank and Judy, a pastor and retired high school music teacher, respectively, reside in Charleston, SC.