Steven Cantor

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Steven Cantor is an American film and television director and producer. Eight of his films have been nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, with two winning, including the 2022 Outstanding Documentary prize for When Claude Got Shot. While as a student in graduate school, Cantor was nominated for an Academy Award for his first film, Blood Ties.

Notable works include the films Twyla Moves, Citizen Ashe, Hood River, Tent City, USA,^[1] Unraveled, No One Dies in Lily Dale,^[2] Reporter with Nicholas Kristof, I Am an Animal, What Remains, Loudquietloud: A Film about Pixies,^[3] American Masters: Willie Nelson,^[4] Devil's Playground, and Dancer. Cantor directed and executive produced the HBO unscripted series Family Bonds, and has executive produced other television series through his Stick Figure Productions banner.^[5] In 2017, Cantor produced STEP, documenting the senior year of a girls' high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore. It premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Prize and sold to Fox Searchlight.