Steven E. Mallorca

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Steve is an award-winning filmmaker and musician who graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a director, editor, and director of photographer, he has produced a large body of work that spans across narrative, documentary, commercial, and music video film fronts. Steve co-directed, edited, and shot “A Peloton of One” which won the 2020 Greenwich International Film Festival’s Audience Award and was released in February 2022 with Laemmle Theaters, and available on-demand on most streaming platforms in March 2022. Steve also served as the director of photography and editor of the 2015 ESPN documentary, “The Lost Trophy.” Steve edited the feature length documentary “Hope Road,” which was released by PBS in 2022. His directorial feature debut, “Slow Jam King,” was hailed by the “The New York Times” as “Do it yourself filmmaking at its purest… with spirited characters and high levels of comic energy” and won Asian CineVision’s Emerging Director Award.

Steve is also the series editor for San Francisco Opera’s 2022 Webby Award-winning documentary series, “In Song,” as well as Cleveland Orchestra’s online performance and documentary series, “In Focus.” He is also an independent musician, and in December 2022, he released his third album under the moniker Sulu and Excelsior, “So Ends the Honeymoon,” to critical acclaim. In fall 2022, Steve began production on a new feature length documentary, “Play It in Woo,” which will be shooting throughout 2023.