03/20/2025
Thank you so much to the FBAFF for giving our short horror comedy, The Demon Of Dumbo, a jury award!!
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New feature BLUEBERRY (2021) winner of the NYC Women’s Fund grant up next! In Case of Emergency, winner of the audience award at Bushwick Film Festival, Broad Humor and New Filmmakers NY, is now available on iTunes and Amazon prime. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Emergency-Stefanie-Sparks/dp/B07F2T5TMJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1540845343&sr=1-1&keywords=in+case+of+emergency
I live in NYC and have since 2004 when I hopped on a plane with nothing more than a couple hundred dollars in my pocket. I didn’t know a single person in NYC and I was terrified but I had to get out of LA after getting fired from my day job on a reality TV show where I was told I simply “didn’t fit in”. Okay, I’m out. No more “entertainment industry” for me, I guess. But what is better than LA? How do I spin this so I don’t have to admit defeat because I ain’t going back to that farm in Iowa. That’s not an option. New York City! That’s better than LA, isn’t it? I had just been accepted to the New School and if I took out enough loans and emailed that guy I hooked up with at SIFF a few years ago, I think his mom might be able to get me a temp job at a hospital out there. I think maybe, just maybe, I can pull this off.
It took me all of 48 hours to decide I was coming to NYC and to arrive here. This was the last stop for me. If this didn’t work out, I was out of ideas. I had no more tricks up my sleeve. I was ready for anything. What I got was pure magic. From the bodega coffee in Inwood (what the hell do they put in there!) to the guy on the street who tried to lick my face on E 72nd street in broad daylight, this fu***ng city had attitude and I could not get enough. I was grateful enough just to survive those first few years, which felt like a right of passage, and I was told, something very few actually managed to do. If you could make it two years in NYC, you were doing more than most and chances were, you might actually make it here, kid. Whatever that meant. Who knows. It was the 00’s.
When I started making my own films in 2010, while I was in grad school at the New School, I began studying, a bit obsessively the indie filmmakers in NYC of the time. I was struck by how little I felt they represented the reality of MY city in their stories. I did not know any world in NYC where you could surround yourself with people that only looked like you or shared your world view. The New York City I knew, and still know, is one where I was often the only person in the room that looked like me from the streets of Harlem where I lived for six years to the office on the Upper East Side, I was smack dab in the middle of the most diverse city in the world. I set out to reflect that in my work. It has been a journey I am most proud of and I hope is just beginning.
