Stephen Robert Morse

Stephen Robert Morse was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for producing Amanda Knox, the Netflix hit documentary. He started making the film while representing the United States in Europe on an Erasmus Mundus journalism fellowship. Since then, Stephen directed, produced, and wrote the critically acclaimed EuroTrump, a film that enabled him to get unprecedented access to Geert Wilders, the Dutch right wing politician who lives behind 24/7 security protection due to credible threats on his life from ISIS. The film was acquired by Hulu, VICE, national broadcasters and had a European theatrical run after playing at Sheffield Doc Fest, DOC NYC, and CPH:DOX. Stephen Executive Produced Freedom For The Wolf, a documentary on the global threats to liberal democracy that won the Audience Award at the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival and was a nominee for the 2019 Cinema For Peace Awards in Berlin. He recently directed and produced In The Cold Dark Night, a documentary on the 1983 murder of Timothy Coggins in Spalding County, Georgia. The film aired in the US as a 20/20 Special Event on ABC. He also recently Executive Produced The Pickup Game that made its debut at HotDocs and was acquired by Starz and many European national broadcasters. He is currently producing a documentary on the world's only bi-national sports team, a professional Mexican baseball team that plays half of their home games in Mexico and half of their home games across the border in Texas. Stephen holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a MBA from the University of Oxford. He is the Managing Director of OBSERVATORY, a company he launched in 2016 to focus on lean filmmaking. Along with his business partner Max Peltz, he founded Lone Wolf Studios in 2020.