Meet Stephen Cone

Welcome Stephen Cone and The Wise Kids to the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers! Stephen's first screening is tomorrow evening at 6:00 pm at the Jules Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. If you are in the area you definitely don't want to miss it.


Stephen Cone (Writer/Producer/Director/Austin) moved to Chicago in July of 2004. While dabbling in the Chicago theatre scene, he founded Cone Arts in 2005 to faciliate the making of his own films. Since then, he has written and directed the short films “Church Story,” “Young Wives” (co-production with Collaboraction; screened at 2007 LA Shorts Fest) and “7 Experiments,” as well as his medium-length feature debut “The Christians”(with Split Pillow; screened at Gene Siskel Film Center; Philadelphia Independent Film Festival; NewFilmmakers @ Anthology Film Archives) and his first two full-length features “In Memoriam” (Gene Siskel Film Center, Big Muddy Film Festival, Buffalo/Niagara Film Festival) and The Wise Kids.