Stacey Steers is an independent animator living in Boulder, Colorado where she teaches  for the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado.  Her labor-intensive films are composed of thousands of individual, handmade works on paper and take long periods of time to produce. Her animations have screened extensively and won national and international awards.

She has been awarded residencies at
The MacDowell Colony, Harvard University and Sacatar Foundation. Steers most recent film Phantom Canyon is the story of a curious woman who encounters enormous insects and an alluring man with bat wings in a surreal recollection of a pivotal journey. Incorporating the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge, first published in 1887.

Selected Filmography: Phantom Canyon, 10:00, black and white, sound. March 2006:

Sundance Film Festival 2007
Black Maria Film Festival, Jury’s Choice
(First Prize) 2007
New Directors, New Films, NYC,
official selection
AFI Film Festival
Denver International Film Festival
Athens International Film Festival (Greece)
Films de Femmes, France  (2007)
Aarhus Festival (Denmark 2007)
Hong Kong International Film Festival (2007)
Portland International Film Festival (2007)
Images Film Festival (Toronto 2007)
Jerusalem International Film Festival (2007)
MoMA
Corcorran Gallery
Anthology Film Archive