Elsewhere Love

Steph Zenee Perez is a queer director, writer, & editor with Indigenous roots. She is a first generation Mexican-American who is interested in compelling stories that explore human complexities, diverse cultures, and underrepresented communities. Steph began her professional career editing the fully improvised independent feature film, THE FEELS. She then worked on the studio side in the Feature Post Production department at Lionsgate before she returned to the editing room as an assistant editor on Amazon’s docu-series, LORENA. She then joined the Motion Picture Editors Guild while working on TV series, VIDA (Starz). Steph was bumped up to edit several episodes of Netflix series, BRAND NEW CHERRY FLAVOR, and on narrative climate change anthology series, EXTRAPOLATIONS (Apple TV +), helmed by the acclaimed Scott Z. Burns.

She worked as an editor, writer, and producer on, BORN FREE, an indie birth documentary. Her latest TV project was Amazon's TV adaptation of MR. & MRS. SMITH, starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. Steph Zenee Perez holds a Master of Fine Arts with a specialization in Editing from the American Film Institute Conservatory and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a Film Independent Project Involve Editing Fellow and winner of NewFilmmakers 2017 Best Editing Award. She recently finished directing short film, ELSEWHERE LOVE, a queer abstract poetic piece that focuses on rebirth from heartbreak and is working on the feature adaptation of her TV pilot, PAN DULCE.