a brief history...

Born and raised in NY and FL, Stefan Dezil is a bilingual American genre filmmaker, theater director, actor and illustrator of Haitian descent. He has worked with Disney, 20th Digital, SpringHill Company, VICE, RevoltTv, Noisey, and Soundcloud. His sci-fi short about American water crises, THIRST, is currently streaming on HULU. For his film The Treadmill, he was nominated for the prestigious international Lumen Prize in the Moving Image category. He also executive produced the narrative feature drama film To Live and Die and Live, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023.

His work has been showcased at the Hollyshorts Film Festival, American Black Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival, Boston SciFi Film Festival, and the Lebanese International Film Festival. For live theatrical production, he is a 2024 Drama League Directing Fellow. You can also see him on Starz’s Return to Nuke Em’ High Vol. 1 & 2 and the science fiction digital network DUST in the short Faulty Father. He is repped by Ronin Entertainment across all media. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's Fine Arts program, he studied theater and painting.