Biographie
Elizabeth Stevens is an Award-Winning screen and television writer/producer known for work attracting the attention of industry giants such as Martin Scorsese, Graham King and Richard D. Zanuck. She is also an accomplished singer and actress.
Freedom, a screenplay by Elizabeth and and her husband and partner, James Bruner, won the Best American Screenplay at the 2022 8 & Halfilm Awards in Rome and won an Honorable Mention from the 2022 Paris Film Awards. It was also an Official Selection of The Malta Film Festival, The Milan Gold Awards and The Hamburg Film Awards. Freedom won Best Screenplay - Feature Award at the 2021 Prague International Film Festival and the 2021 World Film Carnival - Singapore Competition. Freedom was also a Selection or Finalist in 5 additional Film Festivals in 2021, as well as a Second Rounder in the Script Competition of the 2020 Austin Film Festival. Freedom is an epic story inspired by the exhilarating, romantic and tragic events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. After reading the script, several Freedom Fighters, including Academy Award winning Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, commented "I felt like was there."
Elizabeth and James are Co-Executive Producers on Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021) an epic, biographical western feature film produced by The Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, which premiered on Netflix in November, 2021.
Ice Dreams (2009), an original Hallmark Channel romantic drama, written by Elizabeth and James, was nominated for the $100,000 Epiphany Prize at the 19th Annual MovieGuide(c) Awards. They are also Executive Producers on Looking for Mr. Right (2014), a Hallmark Channel romantic comedy.
They were hired by Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck to write and Executive Produce Pretty Boy Floyd, a feature film about the infamous Depression-era outlaw, based on their original research.
Elizabeth and James also wrote, produced and directed the independent comedy feature Hollywood Dot Com (2007). They Co-Produced/Line-Produced the action/thriller feature Clean Sweep (2020) in South Texas.
The duo worked with Columbia Tri-Star Television as writers and producers on developing the one-hour drama series Delta Force 2000.
Elizabeth's latest book, written in collaboration with James, Beeswing Makes Friends, is available from Archway Publishing and Amazon in all formats. The entertaining and enlightening children's picture book helps children deal with major changes in their lives with the aid of Beeswing, the little magical golden dragon, and his friends, both human and fantastical.
Her first children's picture book, the martial arts fable, Mister D: A Children's Picture Book About Overcoming Doubts and Fears, is available in hardcover, paperback and as an e-book.
Music was Elizabeth's first love and she started singing professionally in Junior High. She has had several singles released and has also done radio jingles, singing and Voice Over work on a series of children's albums. She produced the musical component of an Arthritis Foundation benefit concert.
Singing led Elizabeth naturally into acting. She has appeared in commercials and independent films.
