Stephen Auerbach is a Director, Producer and Editor American
Stephen Auerbach
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Stephen Auerbach (born August 8) is an American filmmaker specializing in feature-length documentaries.
Auerbach’s first feature documentary, Race Across America, about the bicycle race of the same name, aired on NBC and received the highest ratings in the network’s history for a cycling event. The film went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Boulder International Film Festival. His follow-up film, Bicycle Dreams, was released to film festivals and DVD in 2009. During production, which took place in 2005, Auerbach had stretches of 36 hours without sleep in order to document the continuous race and to experience the sleep deprivation of its participants. Auerbach eventually ended up with 450 hours of footage, which took him several years to cut into a finished film. Bicycle Dreams has received a number of film festival awards, including Best Feature Documentary at the Yosemite Film Festival, Grand Rapids Film Festival, Red Rock Film Festival, Solstice Film Festival, Lake Arrowhead Film Festival, Fallbrook Film Festival, Los Angeles Sports Film Festival, and the Breckenridge Film Festival.
Other films directed by Auerbach include The Circus Comes to Town, about traveling circus troupes of the Great Depression era, and The Memory Box, about a group of African social activists working to lift Ethiopia out of poverty and despair.
Auerbach has also won multiple film festival awards for his work as a film editor. Prior to his entrance into the world of independent filmmaking, Auerbach had executive produced, produced, directed, or written over 125 hours of programming for major network broadcast outlets, cable networks, and syndication. Auerbach began his career as a staff writer for comedian Richard Belzer.
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