Stefan Forbes is an American screenwriter and documentary film
director.Forbes' first feature film was the 2008 documentary film
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, about the life of political
operative Lee Atwater.Forbes also shot and co-directed the one-hour
documentary One More Dead Fish, seen on PBS, about environmentally
friendly handline fishermen in Canada who seized a federal building
and barricaded themselves inside for 26 days.With Grammy-nominated
composer John Beasley, Forbes created the hour-long work Monk Recut,
featuring recut performance footage of American composer Thelonious
Monk in rhythmic, visual, and harmonic interplay with Beasley's
inventive compositions for the big band MONK'estra. Featuring spoken
word quotations from Monk's unique life philosophy, the work premiered
at the LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall in February 2018.
director.Forbes' first feature film was the 2008 documentary film
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, about the life of political
operative Lee Atwater.Forbes also shot and co-directed the one-hour
documentary One More Dead Fish, seen on PBS, about environmentally
friendly handline fishermen in Canada who seized a federal building
and barricaded themselves inside for 26 days.With Grammy-nominated
composer John Beasley, Forbes created the hour-long work Monk Recut,
featuring recut performance footage of American composer Thelonious
Monk in rhythmic, visual, and harmonic interplay with Beasley's
inventive compositions for the big band MONK'estra. Featuring spoken
word quotations from Monk's unique life philosophy, the work premiered
at the LA Philharmonic at Disney Hall in February 2018.
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