Steve Barr

About Steve Barr

Steve Barr moved to New Zealand in 2010 after working for 16 years in the Hollywood system. A graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts acting program at the University of Southern California, he worked for two years as an actor before transitioning into writing and producing.He is a founding member of SoCal Film Group, a creative collective of writers, directors, producers and actors that produced over 50 short films across the spectrum of styles and genres. SoCal Film Group shorts screened at dozens of film festivals, including the Austin Film Festival (where Steve's film Who's On First? - the Movie won the online Audience Award), the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival, Silver Lake Film Festival, Shriekfest, and the Newport Beach Film Festival, as well as on the cable channels AMC and Showtime.Through his association with SoCal Film Group, Steve wrote and produced Quiet, which was named one of the top ten short films of the year by Film Threat magazine.Steve has worked as a corporate suit for NBC Universal, VP Development for indie financier / production company SMASHfilms, an assignment screenwriter, and an independent producer. As a screenplay consultant he has written formal analysis on thousands of screenplays, and lectured at the Screenwriter's Expo, StoryBoard, Scriptwrights, Northwest Writers Guild, and dozens of institutions and industry organizations in America and New Zealand....

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