Jumping Dog Productions
STEFAN MOORE
STEFAN MOORE

Stefan Moore: Producer/Director/Writer


Stefan Moore has worked as a producer/director and an executive producer of documentaries in the U.S., Britain and Australia. His documentaries have received four Emmys and numerous other awards. Films he has recently produced and directed include Honeybee Blues (2009), a one hour documentary about the world's disappearing honeybees (Earth Vision award from the Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival and Sydney Morning Herald TV Critics award for the best Australian documentary of the year), The Cars That Ate China (2008) about the social impact of China's car revolution (Dendy award nominee at the Sydney Film Festival and Australian Screen Editors Guild award for best documentary), and the award-winning National Geographic special Race Against the Killer Flu (2007).


From 2001 to 2005, Stefan was the Executive Producer of Science and History at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney where he oversaw the production of a wide range of critically acclaimed programs and series including the prime-time, weekly science magazine show Catalyst. Prior to that, he was Executive Producer for Film Australia, Australia's largest producer of documentary films, where he commissioned award winning films and series for television and theatrical release including the feature documentaries Cunnamulla, The Diplomat and Facing the Music and the award winning series Bush Mechanics. Before coming to Australia, Stefan worked in Britain and the US where as the co-director of TVG productions in New York City he produced and directed independent films for public and commercial television. In New York, he was also a producer for CBS news on the prime time current affairs series 48 Hours.


Stefan's documentaries include the critically acclaimed eight-part series The Trouble With Medicine, produced for PBS, BBC and ABC (Australia); the PBS three-hour series America on Wheels about the social history of the car in America; the ABC Australia series Under the Hammer and The Gamblers; the PBS Emmy award winning documentary Presumed Innocent about pre-trial detention inside New York's infamous Rikers Island; Trouble on Fashion Avenue about labour and organised crime inside New York's garment industry; No Sex, No Violence, No News, that looks at the arrival of satellite television in China; and The Irish Tapes about the troubles in Northern Ireland which is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.


Stefan Moore's work has been recognized with four Emmys and many other awards including the American Film and Video Festival, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Chicago Film Festival. He has received grants and fellowships from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Family Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.