Stacie Passon

Stacie Passon
Nationality American
Occupation film director, screenwriter
Known for Concussion

Stacie Passon is an American film director and screenwriter,[1] whose debut film Concussion premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and subsequently won a Teddy Award Jury Prize as an outstanding film about LGBT themes at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

Passon previously worked as a commercial director and producer. She is originally from Detroit, Michigan.[3]

In 2012, Passon received the Adrienne Shelly Director’s Grant and the Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers Live the Dream Grant at the Gotham Awards for Concussion.[4] Concussion was released in the United States by Radius/TWC and in 17 other territories around the world. The film garnered two Gotham Nominations for Breakthrough Director and Breakthrough Actor, a Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Film and won a 2014 GLAAD Media award.

Passon is now developing her second feature film Strange Things Started Happening, which is supported by Sundance Institute and Tribeca Film Institute.[4] She teaches screenwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

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