Steve Race(III)
- Director
- Producer
- Writer
Steve Race is one of the top up-and-coming Directors in the entertainment industry. After finishing his collegiate work at Florida Southern College with a bachelor's degree in Film and Television Production in 1996, he made his way out to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business. He landed at A Louis J. Horvitz Production working as a Director's Assistant to Mr. Horvitz, who is known as one of the most prolific Directors in Television, winning numerous Emmy Awards. Alongside his mentor, Steve worked on such shows as the 1999 and 2000 Academy Awards (Oscar's), 1999 Emmy awards, Peoples Choice Awards, Net Aid Live, and countless other Television specials. In 2001, Steve ventured out and started Directing a number of projects on his own. When the Latin Grammy's wanted to throw an event to launch the First Annual Latin Grammy Award's they called Steve and hired him to Produce and Direct the 15 camera event hosted by Daisy Fuentes called, Latin Style. In 2003, he was asked to Direct the First Annual Visual Effect Society Awards where Lord of the Rings swept, winning in all 12 categories. Steve got involved in Comedy as well that year, teaming up with Code Black Entertainment to produce and direct 10 volumes of the very successful Latino Comedy Fiesta series. Next Steve moved on to Direct a 10 camera Comedy DVD hosted by Brett Butler, called Brett Butler presents, The Southern Belles of Comedy. Next, Steve and his producing team that includes Henry Winkler started developing a documentary series entitled Firefighter's the series. Firefighter's follows the men and women of the Los Angeles City Fire department. In 2011 Steve made his film Directorial debut with the feature film I'm In Love With A Church Girl starring Jeff Ja Rule Atkins and Adrienne Bailon. Also that year Steve became a member of the Director's Guild of America. Steve's soon started work on one of his passion projects, the feature film entitled, The Story of My Family in which Steve penned the screenplay. He will also be producing and directing it as well. A coming of age film, it looks at the modern day family dynamics in the ultimate cultural melting pot of the San Fernando Valley, CA, Also in the works is an NFL film based on New York Giant Super Bowl Champion Chase Blackburn. The film is an inspiration story about following your dreams and never giving up. Steve also has just completed his baseball screenplay called The Past. The Past follows the Character Andre Walker a modern day professional baseball player that gets hit in the head with a baseball transporting him back to the 1940's where he has to earn his way back to the future. Other work Steve is involved in is producing and directing video content for US Medical Innovations. The content includes shooting major cancer surgeries for research all over the world that is being used in the fight against cancer.