Steven Torriano Berry

About the Author: Steven Torriano Berry is an award winning filmmaker and associate professor at Howard University s Department of Radio, Television and Film. He has produced Black Independent Showcase, and Black Visions / Silver Screen: Howard University Student Film Showcase, both television series for independent and student films, and has produced two, short, made-for-television movies, The Light and When It s Your Turn for WPVI-TV 6 in Philadelphia. He wrote, produced and directed EMBALMER, his first feature length film now available on Netflix. He is director and co-creator of Noh Matta Wat! the first dramatic TV Series of Belize.

Berry is co-author of The 50 Most Influential Black Films, (Citadel Press, 2001), Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema (Scarecrow Press, 2007) hardcover - The A to Z of African American Cinema (Scarecrow Press, 2010) paperback, and he is the publisher and editor of the romance novel, Love Forsaken, (Hard-Berry Publishing, 1994).

He lives in Washington, D.C.