Stephen van Vuuren, known as stephen v2 in his local indie community, is a filmmaker, musician, photographer and ubergeek. He grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa and Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite being raised in the Cooneyite religious cult that forbade movies, television and pop music, Stephen still managed to developed passions for still photography, space, music and storytelling.

He devoured every book he could find and tt was there he first read about Saturn and Titan in Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”. His dad bought him a manual 35mm camera and his love of creating images began.

Years later, immersing himself in all the movies he had missed as a child, he watched Kubrick’s “2001” and felt the call to filmmaking. After the adventures of film schools in Tennessee and California, he spent years pursuing careers in technology, graphics and corporate IT, Stephen returned to filmmaking in 1999.

Embracing the digital revolution, Stephen has made over a dozen short experimental and animation films that have screened at numerous festivals and in cyberspace. He works doing freelance digital video production & motion graphics and began a pioneering passion in manipulating still images into full motion. Current project is the groundbreaking "Imax in a basement film" Outside In.

He lives in Greensboro, NC with his musician/artist wife Marie and three aging cats

reach me at 336-202-4777

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