Stephanie Soechtig

Stephanie Soechtig is an awardwinning documentary filmmaker and cofounder of Atlas Films httpwwwatlasfilmscom Her film Under the Gun received a prolonged standing ovation when it premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Lionsgate and Epix acquired the awardwinning film which critics called masterfully crafted and the best film on firearms since the 2002s Oscarwinning doc Bowling for Columbine Two years earlier FED UP premiered at Sundance where it was acquired by RadiusTWC and received a wide theatrical release A New York Times Critics Pick many have likened FED UP to Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth for the way we eat The film spotlighted our addiction to sugar and the ensuing obesity epidemic and succeeded in bringing the issue into the mainstream Stephanies directorial debut documentary Tapped focused on the high cost to both the environment and our health of the bottled water industry Hailed by critics as stunning and whipsmart Tapped swept film festivals across the country while picking up six awards for Best Documentary Feature Stephanies film about chemical contaminants in drinking water The Devil We Know is currently in production She also produced the documentary The Last Animals about Africas poaching crisis which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017 Dubbed by Fortune Magazine as one of the Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink Stephanie has also directed political campaign commercials short films and viral videos for nonprofit groups including the Environmental Working Group and Food and Water Watch