Steven Markovitz
TFI Support
TFI New Media Fund 2013
About
Steven has 20 years of experience producing features and documentaries including award-winning titles Viva Riva! (Toronto, Berlin), Congo in Four Acts ( Berlin, Hotdocs, IDFA), Project 10 (Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, IDFA) and Pumzi ( Sundance).
This is My Backyard: Logs of War
Silas Siakor, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, risked everything to cut off warlord Charles Taylor from the illegal timber trade that was helping fund Liberia's 14-year civil war. Now, Siakor tries to kick-start his country’s struggling economy through sustainable logging.