Steven Cantor

History

Steven Cantor is an American film/television director and film/television producer. Notable works include the films “What Remains”(2006), “loudQUIETloud”(2006), "Devil's Playground (film)" and “Blood Ties”(1994). Cantor has also directed and executive produced the HBO series “Family Bonds”(2003), and has executive produced "Amish in the City" (2005 UPN), “#1 Single”(2006 E! Network), and “Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane”(2007 Style Channel). He is a founding partner in Stick Figure Productions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steven Cantor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Movies

Citizen Ashe
Producer
Follows the life and career of Arthur Ashe.
Hood River
Director
In a small Oregon community, a high school soccer team struggles to overcome class and racial divide in a quest for both individual and team success. While Domingo deals with the deportation of his father to Mexico, and Eric painfully learns how to become a captain and command the respect of his Mexican-American teammates, Coach Riviera struggles to keep the team together amidst the pressure of academics and athletics. This coming-of-age feature documentary focuses on the friendship and maturation of three characters and is set against the backdrop of a segregated American town. Will Domingo graduate? Will Eric become a leader? Will the Eagles win a state championship?
When Claude Got Shot
Producer
In Milwaukee, a 15-year-old attempted to carjack law student Claude Motley and shot him in the face. Through multiple surgeries and catastrophic health care bills, the effects of gun violence upends Claude’s life. Yet he still finds himself torn between punishment for the young man and the injustice of mass incarceration for Black men and boys. Can he find mercy in his heart for his attacker?
Twyla Moves
Producer
Interwoven with her storied career and prolific works, Twyla Moves sees legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp navigate her latest creative challenge: making a dance for a world plagued by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Twyla Moves
Director
Interwoven with her storied career and prolific works, Twyla Moves sees legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp navigate her latest creative challenge: making a dance for a world plagued by the Covid-19 pandemic.
What Will Become of Us
Director
Sir Frank Lowy, the self-made billionaire and founder of Westfield Corporation, faces a dilemma - - whether or not to sell the company he has spent his life building. Standing at a crossroads, Frank reflects for the first time on his war-torn childhood as a way to shape his perspective on this monumental decision.
Between Me and My Mind
Director
Driven by a constant need to create, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio takes on new projects, including some of his most personal music to date as well as Phish's ambitious New Year's Eve show at Madison Square Garden.
Ballet Now
Producer
Three days leading up to Tiler Peck's direction and performance of a ballet exhibition in Los Angeles.
Ballet Now
Director
Three days leading up to Tiler Peck's direction and performance of a ballet exhibition in Los Angeles.
Step
Producer
The senior year of a girls’ high school step team in inner-city Baltimore is documented, as they try to become the first in their families to attend college. The girls strive to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in their troubled city.
Dancer
Director
Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.
Chasing Tyson
Director
With his outsized personality and ferocious punches, Mike Tyson cast a commanding shadow over boxing in the 1980s and ’90s. Meanwhile, Evander Holyfield endured years of delay for the opportunity to take down Tyson. The prevailing view of the mild-mannered Holyfield was that he was a journeyman – the heavyweight champion, but never a truly great one. Though Holyfield dramatically lost and recaptured the heavyweight crown, and then lost it again, even he understood that his career would ultimately be defined by how he stood up to Tyson – if he ever got his chance. By the time of their much-hyped and oft-delayed heavyweight title bout in November of 1996, Holyfield was 34 and considered past his prime. Four years younger, Tyson was heavily favored to be standing over another meek and easily vanquished opponent at the end. Instead, we got two of the sport’s most memorable fights – but for very different reasons.
Cutthroat
Director
Clint Malarchuk was the "Cowboy Goalie." He grew up riding horses with a severe childhood OCD problem. He would ultimately go down in hockey history for suffering one of the most gruesome injuries in sports when he severed his carotid artery by an opposing player's skate blade. "Cutthroat," will cover the injury, his remarkable physical recovery in under two weeks and his grueling emotional and mental one.
Unraveled
Producer
Just days before Bernard Madoff captured headlines as the largest Ponzi schemer in U.S. history, Marc Dreier, a prominent Manhattan attorney, was arrested for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme that netted hundreds of millions of dollars from hedge funds. Brazen forgeries and impersonations branded the white collar crime spree remarkable. "Unraveled" is set in the purgatory of house arrest -- an Upper East Side penthouse -- where the Court has ordered Dreier confined until his sentencing day. The film weaves Dreier's struggle to prepare for the possibility of life imprisonment with first-person flashbacks, which reveal his audacious path of destruction. Destroyed by his own hubris, Dreier attempts to grasp his tragic unraveling. With unprecedented access, "Unraveled" exposes a mastermind of criminal deception.
Tent City, U.S.A
Producer
A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.
Tent City, U.S.A
Director
A documentary view of an encampment of homeless people on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee in the Southern United States.
The Bionic Eye
Director
No One Dies in Lily Dale
Director
A candid portrayal of Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in upstate New York, where most of the town's residents are registered Mediums who regularly give spiritual readings to visitors through alleged communication with the deceased.
Reporter
Producer
Reporter is the documentary film about Nicholas Kristof. The film tracks him on a harrowing reporting trip through the Democratic Republic of Congo.
loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
Director
When college rock darlings the Pixies broke up in 1992, their fans were shocked and dismayed. When they reunited in 2004, those same fans and legions of new listeners were ecstatic and filled with high hopes. loudQUIETloud follows the rehearsals and live shows of the band as they struggle through the reunion tour "Sell Out"
What Remains
Writer
At home at her Virginia farm, photographer Sally Mann reflects on the controversy surrounding her earlier collections while forging ahead with new work in this intimate portrait of an artist. Also offering insights into the photographer's career are Mann's husband and her now-grown offspring.
What Remains
Director
At home at her Virginia farm, photographer Sally Mann reflects on the controversy surrounding her earlier collections while forging ahead with new work in this intimate portrait of an artist. Also offering insights into the photographer's career are Mann's husband and her now-grown offspring.
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
Writer
Steven Cantor's award-winning documentary chronicles of the lives of bouncers - the burly boys who guard both sides of the door in nightclubs across America. The film takes an inside look at the mindset of these frequently ridiculed, but always feared enforcers of the night and examines whether they are skilled experts in security, hired to anticipate trouble, or just hired thugs meant to intimidate. Revealed within is a world of notorious nightclub bouncers, including New York's Terence "The Black Prince" Buckley and British legend Lenny "The Guv'nor" McLean who appeared in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Written by Sujit R. Varma
Bounce: Behind The Velvet Rope
Director
Steven Cantor's award-winning documentary chronicles of the lives of bouncers - the burly boys who guard both sides of the door in nightclubs across America. The film takes an inside look at the mindset of these frequently ridiculed, but always feared enforcers of the night and examines whether they are skilled experts in security, hired to anticipate trouble, or just hired thugs meant to intimidate. Revealed within is a world of notorious nightclub bouncers, including New York's Terence "The Black Prince" Buckley and British legend Lenny "The Guv'nor" McLean who appeared in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Written by Sujit R. Varma
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Editor
An intimate portrait of the photographer and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children.
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Producer
An intimate portrait of the photographer and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children.
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Himself
An intimate portrait of the photographer and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children.
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Writer
An intimate portrait of the photographer and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children.
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Director
An intimate portrait of the photographer and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children.
THANK YOU, MS. MARAVEL from Rosie's Theater Kids
Director
Ten years ago, inspired by the teacher who inspired her, actor-comedian Rosie O’Donnell established a school, giving public school kids access to dance, music, and drama. This film follows five kids, as they pursue their stage and screen goals, learning to believe in themselves.
Beekeeper
Director
Dennis van Engelsdorp, former state apiarist for Pennsylvania and current entomology professor at the University of Maryland, is worried that bees-a crucial part of humanity's ecosystem-are dying.