2009 Spirit of Windrider Award Winner – Filmmaker, Rick Stevenson

Filmmaker - Rick Stevenson

Rick Stevenson is a Seattle native known for his work in film and television in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Stevenson’s production credits include Privileged (1983) starring Hugh Grant; Restless Natives (1985) starring Ned Beatty, Promised Land (1987) starring Meg Ryan and Kiefer Sutherland; Some Girls (1989) starring Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly and Andre Gregory: and Crooked Hearts starring Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Noah Wylie, Juliette Lewis and Peter Coyote.

Stevenson made his feature film directorial debut in 1995 with Magic in the Water, starring Mark Harmon and Joshua Jackson. His next, widely lauded, feature film was The Dinosaur Hunter with Christopher Plummer (1999). This was followed by Anthrax (2001) starring Cameron Daddo, David Keith, William B. Davis, Ed Begley Jr. Most recently, Stevenson directed, co-wrote and produced Expiration Date(2006) starring Robert Guthrie, Dee Wallace Stone and David Keith. Stevenson has directed many programs for television including Ed for NBC and his work as a director of television commercials has garnered a myriad of awards.

In 2004, Stevenson founded The Film School with Tom Skerritt and Stewart Stern. He is currently piloting “Official Best of Fest,” an initiative to help bring the world’s best indie films to the public. He is also completing his first feature in “The 5000 Days Project” series. Rick holds a PhD from Oxford University, a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in history from Whitman College in Washington State.

Rick is married with four children.