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Steven Ascher
Steven Ascher is an American independent director, producer and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award and has received the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival among many other awards. His book The Filmmaker’s Handbook is a bestselling text.
Ascher attended Wesleyan University for a year, he then went on to pursue filmmaking in New York. He worked at the MIT Film Section with documentarians Ed Pincus and Richard Leacock. He graduated from Harvard University, summa cum laude, in visual and environmental studies.
He and his wife Jeanne Jordan produced a wide variety of media through their production company, West City Films.
His feature documentaries include a trilogy about families in trouble, co-directed with Jeanne Jordan.
Troublesome Creek: a Midwestern is about the Jordan family and their effort to save their Iowa farm. It was released theatrically and broadcast on PBS The American Experience, the BBC premier documentary strand Storyville, ZDF Germany and many other networks around the world.
So Much So Fast tells the story of the Heywood family when son Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and his brother Jamie started a research group to try to find a cure. So Much So Fast was released theatrically and broadcast on PBS Frontline, BBC Storyville, ZDF Germany, Arte in France and others.
Raising Renee, part III of the trilogy, is about artist Beverly McIver and her promise to take care of her mentally disabled sister Renee when their mother died. Broadcast on HBO, AVRO Netherlands, SVT Sweden and Knowledge Network in Canada. Nominated for a 2013 Emmy for Best Arts and Culture Programming.
He and Jordan are producing Our Towns for HBO, a feature documentary based on James and Deborah Fallows book about resilient cities around the United States.
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Steven Ascher
Steven Ascher is an American independent director, producer and writer. He was nominated for an Academy Award and has received the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival among many other awards. His book The Filmmaker’s Handbook is a bestselling text.
Ascher attended Wesleyan University for a year, he then went on to pursue filmmaking in New York. He worked at the MIT Film Section with documentarians Ed Pincus and Richard Leacock. He graduated from Harvard University, summa cum laude, in visual and environmental studies.
He and his wife Jeanne Jordan produced a wide variety of media through their production company, West City Films.
His feature documentaries include a trilogy about families in trouble, co-directed with Jeanne Jordan.
Troublesome Creek: a Midwestern is about the Jordan family and their effort to save their Iowa farm. It was released theatrically and broadcast on PBS The American Experience, the BBC premier documentary strand Storyville, ZDF Germany and many other networks around the world.
So Much So Fast tells the story of the Heywood family when son Stephen Heywood was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and his brother Jamie started a research group to try to find a cure. So Much So Fast was released theatrically and broadcast on PBS Frontline, BBC Storyville, ZDF Germany, Arte in France and others.
Raising Renee, part III of the trilogy, is about artist Beverly McIver and her promise to take care of her mentally disabled sister Renee when their mother died. Broadcast on HBO, AVRO Netherlands, SVT Sweden and Knowledge Network in Canada. Nominated for a 2013 Emmy for Best Arts and Culture Programming.
He and Jordan are producing Our Towns for HBO, a feature documentary based on James and Deborah Fallows book about resilient cities around the United States.