Daniel Stedman

Daniel Stedman
Born	Maine, United States
Occupation	Publisher Filmmaker
Known for	Owner and Co-founder of The L Magazine and Brooklyn Magazine and Northside Festival

Daniel Stedman is a multi-award-winning film director, producer, writer, and owner and current president of The L Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, BAMbill, Taste Talks, SummerScreen in McCarren Park, and the Northside Festival.

Stedman received a degree in physics from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He currently lives in New York City, and has had poems published in the Paris journal Kilometer Zero.

His short film Celebration received recognition, and allowed him to be the youngest filmmaker ever invited to the Berlin International Film Festival. His work became recipient of multiple awards, most notably a Teddy Award by an independent jury at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival. His work has played at numerous international film festivals, including the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.

More recently, both Stedman and his cousin Aron Epstein acted in and co-directed his film The Moth and the Firefly. Inspired by the New York City blackout of 2003, the animated short film had its world premiere at the San Joaquin International Film Festival in May 2009. It won 'Bronze Palm' at the Mexico International Film Festival.

He is co-founder and current president of The L Magazine, and runs the web site Yourlocal.com. When first launched in 2003, The L Magazine had a heated rivalry with the New York Press. This was settled when Jeff Koyen, editor-in-chief of New York Press met with Scott Stedman, editor-in-chief of The L Magazine and brother of Daniel Stedman, for a one-on-one charity boxing match on October 29, 2003.

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