Stephen Gifford has joined forces with Rick Sebeck to create Pretty Damn Sweet, a bold new creative boutique that brings artists back to the forefront of the creative process. www.prettydamnsweet.com
STEPHEN GIFFORD
CREATIVE DIRECTOR * EDITOR * ARTIST
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Client Share - Johnson & Johnson - “Glad You Joined” 5 min video
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“Glad You Joined” 5 min video
Client Share - Johnson & Johnson - “Intro” 2 min video
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“Intro” 2 min video
CONTACT
Stephen Gifford
(c) 609.760.0186
(e) sagifford311@gmail.com
FILMS
The Unidentified
The Unidentified is a 2008 dramatic feature film by writer-director Kevan Tucker in his directorial debut for Floodgate Features. It won “Best New Director” at the 2008 Brooklyn International Film Festival and “Best First Feature” at the 2008 FirstGlance Film Festival in Philadelphia. It also screened at the Asheville Film Festival and Methodfest Film Festival in 2008. It is considered part of the mumblecore movement.
The movie is about Estlin, a journalist in New York City. He struggles with defining career and relationships, trying to establish himself as a writer while dealing with the complications of friendship with the opposite sex.
For more information, please visit the film’s website: www.theunidentified.net
MOTION . GRAPHICS . DESIGN
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Motion Graphics Reel
Styleframes for Music Video
Styleframes for Commercial Pitch
Styleframes for Corporate Video
ABOUT
Stephen is an award-winning artist with 10 years of professional experience in Editing, Producing, Directing, Motion Graphics, and Videography. He also has technical experience with industry standard editing systems such as Smoke, Flame, Final Cut Pro and AVID, acting as a consultant to software companies when designing integration for these programs. Stephen has worked for a variety of clients from independent films to Fortune 500 companies, and has earned several awards and career highlights, but it’s his versatility and easy-going nature that make Stephen one of the most valuable talents on the market.Stephen brings his keen storytelling sensibilities into everything he does. He has cut, produced, and animated broadcast commercials, feature films, long & short format documentaries, web series, corporate presentations, and videos for live events. His client list includes: A&E, CNN, Discovery Channel, ESPN, Floodgate Features, Front Porch Digital, History Channel, Johnson & Johnson, No Joke Productions, NYU, Phillips-Van Heusen, Siemens, Six Flags, The IZOD Center, Tom Brown Jr’s Tracker School, Yankee Stadium and USA.
In 2008, Stephen won two Telly Awards for outstanding work in both Editorial and Motion Graphics for “The Save Ellis Island” Campaign. He also earned several festival wins that year for his feature film “The Unidentified,” (www.theunidentified.net) including Best Feature of FirstGlance Philadelphia and Best Director of The Brooklyn International Film Festival. ”The Unidentified” was also distributed this year by Vanguard Cinema. And most recently, Stephen directed and shot the show “America Haunts” for the Travel Channel, a show which he also co-edited and post-supervised.
SERVICES
- EDITING
- Movies - Long & Short format Narrative & Documentary
- Commercials - TV & Web
- Movie Trailers
- TV Series
- Web Series
- Childrens’ Shows
- Corporate Videos / Sizzle Videos
- Live Events
- Movies - Long & Short format Narrative & Documentary
- DESIGN & MOTION GRAPHICS
- Graphic Design & Animation
- DVD Menus
- Logo animations
- COMPOSITING / FINISHING
- Rotoscoping, Keying, & Compositing
- Color Correction
- DVD Design & Authoring
- PRODUCING
- PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY
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