Martha Stephens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Martha Stephens

American film director and actress

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1984

Place of Birth: Huntington, West Virginia, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Martha Stephens (born March 12, 1984) is an American film writer and director.
Her three feature films involve characters yearning for escape, and naturalistically portrayed rural settings.Stephens was born in West Virginia and raised in eastern Kentucky.
A great-niece of writer Jesse Stuart, Stephens was immersed by her family in the Appalachian storytelling tradition.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking, where she concentrated in directing.Stephens' first two feature films, Passenger Pigeons (2010) and Pilgrim Song (2012), premiered at the South by Southwest festival and received several awards.
Her third film, Land Ho! (2014), which she co-directed with Aaron Katz, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was purchased for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.
At the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, Land Ho! was given the John Cassavetes Award for best feature film with a budget under $500,000.
In June 2018, it was announced Stephens had directed her fourth feature film To the Stars, with Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Malin Åkerman, and Tony Hale starring, from a screenplay by Shannon Bradley-Colleary.