Steve Stockman
Writer/producer/director in Los Angeles.
Author of best-selling book How To Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

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Steve Stockman is president of LA-based Custom Productions, Inc. and a producer, writer and director of over 250 projects including commercials, web series, feature films, music videos, and TV shows.

Steve’s credits include creating, writing and Executive Producing 3 seasons of Brew Dogs for NBC/UNI and $24/24 for Food Network, creating and EPing Dogs Of War on A&E and Discovery Channel’s 3-season hit series, The Devils Ride, writing, producing and directing the Comedy Central digital series Gnarnia, and Kitchen Think at Food Network.  Custom and Steve have completed pilots and development projects for A&E, AMC, BET, Comedy Central, CMT, History Channel and Food Network.

Steve wrote, produced and directed the award-winning MGM feature film Two Weeks, starring Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Tom Cavanagh, Julianne Nicholson, Glenn Howerton and Clea DuVall.

Video marketing consulting and commercial clients include Breville, ChefSteps.com, Saatva.com, Anchor Brewing Company and Microsoft.

Steve serves as a faculty member and President of the Board of Trustees of the Summer Stars Camp for the Performing Arts, a non-profit program for disadvantaged youth, and is past President of the Board of the Westside Waldorf School in Pacific Palisades, CA. He is a life member of the Creative Education Foundation and on the faculty of their training institutes.

He is a graduate of Brown University in Providence, RI.


How to Shoot Video that Doesn’t Suck is the world's best-selling video how-to book, available in 9 languages worldwide, and taught in schools from middle school to grad level. The latest version is now in its 12th printing from Workman Publishing.
From the "How to Shoot Video that Doesn't Suck" book trailer.

How to Shoot Video that Doesn't Suck

The trailer to the book. Includes 5 great tips on shooting better video.

Saatva spot directed by Steve Stockman

Saatva "Meeting"

2021 campaign for Saatva, the mattress company. Turns out scouting a location made of pure glass with space outside it is hard.

Two Weeks (MGM)

The original trailer for the award-winning film starring Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Julianne Nicholson, Tom Cavanagh, Glenn Howerton, and Clea DuVall.

Entertain or Die: A Manifesto

Why wishing won't make someone watch your video.