Steve Parys

Directing

Steve started his film career 33 years ago as a Set Production Assistant on Silence of the Lambs, and has remained in film production ever since. Steve has 1st Assistant Directed over two dozen feature films & many TV series all across the US and abroad, including American Rust (TV), Anything's Possible, Holiday Rush, Fear The Walking Dead (TV), Gone (TV), Downward Dog (TV), Outsiders (TV), Concussion, Foxcatcher, Supah Ninjas! (TV), Harodim (shot in Vienna), Dandelion, Graduation, Strange Girls, On the Inside, & Riddle, The Bread My Sweet, Out of the Black, & Mafia, among many, many others. He has been directing more & more projects, including Mares & Kaps (pilot), Mulligan (TV pilot), The Chief (a feature film, winner of a Tapestry Award), A Month of Sundays (2nd unit feature film), PSAs for the PA Film Tax Credit Program, short films, commercials, TV, and videos. His short films "Lightheaded" & "Breakage" have been in a huge number of film festivals in 2016, winning numerous awards. He co-directed MTV's first short form mini-series, I Remember Chloe, which grew to feature length with their blessings. Steve has directed countless narrative industrials (winning the Cine Golden Eagle Award) in many genres - instructional, comedy, drama, action, horror, etc. He has also A.D.ed hundreds of commercials, videos, shorts, & industrials. Steve lives on the South Side of Pittsburgh with his wife of twenty seven years, Anne, and their maniac cat, Strummer.