Film Festival and Filmmaker
Advisor Background
Edward P. Stencel has worked as a producer, director and
cinematographer for the past 18 years.
His fiction and non-fiction films have won awards at major film
festivals worldwide. Over the past
five years Edward has traveled the world selling and acquiring programming as a
distribution executive.
Mr. Stencel was the first Filmmaker Advisor at IFP Los
Angeles (Currently called Film Independent the home of the Independent Spirit
Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival.) and also served as a freelance Film
Festival and Line Producer Consultant for Film Independent. He has worked as
the Executive Producer of FesTV for the Los Angeles Film Festival, and a
producer/director for Split Screen that aired on Bravo and IFC. Edward has also worked on films and
programs for Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, Fox and HBO.
He is
on the board of directors and vice president of the Temecula Valley
International Film & Music Festival.
Edward is also the founder and served as co-director of the Indy Film
Showcase for four years, which screened feature independent films with the
directors in attendance from around the country once a month in Kansas
City. He is currently on the
national advisory board for Kansas City FilmFest and served as the vice
president and executive board of the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee for nine
years.
As a producer and
director his films have won awards at film festival in the US and Europe. Some of these festivals include, SXSW,
Temecula Valley International Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival,
Arizona International Film Festival, Festival International Du Film Independent
Bruselles Belgium, and Avignon Film Festival in France. He was also nominated
for an International Documentary Association Award for best documentary short
in 2002.
As a
panelist Edward has spoken at many film festivals and universities around the
world. He has also written for
MovieMaker Magazine.
Edward Stencel earned his Masters in Film and Television
Production
from the University of Bristol, England after receiving
his BA
(Economics) in 1988 from the University of Michigan.