Stephen Keep Mills graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 1969.
He began his professional life as an actor with The Guthrie Theatre Co.
and performed with many leading regional theatre companies in the US
and Canada. He appeared in three Broadway productions, and worked on
new plays at the Public Theatre in NYC under the tutelage of the
legendary Joe Papp. He has worked extensively in television in LA. Mills
began writing, directing, and producing his own plays in 1985.
"A Cigar at the Beach" marks his directing debut as a filmmaker. This
film won, among many others, Best Cinematography at the Accolade
Competition 2007 and in the FAIF International Film Festival 2006. It was
awarded in the Philadelphia Documentary and Fiction Festival, the
Festival de Cine de Granada and the Festival du Cinema de Bruxelles.
"Liminal" won many international awards in the Festival Circuit, as the
Silver Palm at the Mexico International Film Festival, Best Screenplay in
the Mar del Plata Short Film Festival, Best Non-European Dramatic Short
in the ECU The European Independent Film Festival. This film was
awarded in the Short Film Festival of Los Angeles and also in the Festival
du Film de Strasbourg, the Festival de Cine de Granada, the Festival du
Cinema de Paris, the New York Short Film Festival, el Festival de Cine
Internacional de Barcelona, the San Francisco Short Film Festival, the
Festival du Cinema de Bruxelles and the Chicago Short Film Festival.
Short Film Festival of Los Angeles - The Jury
