Steven Lawrence Pro

Steven Lawrence is a producer-director and media pioneer who has been making documentaries for over 30 years about artists, activists, and everyday heroes - from underground Soviet rockers to a Senegalese rapper fighting female genital cutting, to cat rescuers in Brooklyn, and scientists racing to save the human microbiome. As a producer his work includes three feature docs in collaboration with Michael Apted, including The Long Way Home and Married In America. He created the International Emmy-award winning series Born In The USSR producing the first film, Age 7 In The USSR, and he also produced The Furious Force Of Rhymes and Sarabah (Movies That Matter Golden Butterfly award). His directing credits include Tell Tchaikovsky The News: Rock In Russia for MTV, the innovative Vis à Vis series for PBS, with one film, Vis à Vis: Native Tongues (co-directed with Nick Torrens & Phil Lucas) a co-production with Australia’s SBS,  The Cat Rescuers (with Rob Fruchtman), winner of the 2018 Hamptons International Film Festival animal rights award, and The Invisible Extinction (with Sarah Schenck). He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, Helen Garrett.