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Stacy Cochran is a director, producer and screenwriter based in New York City.  She made her feature debut with Columbia TriStar title My New Gun starring Diane Lane and James LeGros. It premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes and earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Feature. Subsequent projects as writer-director include Touchstone/Interscope title Boys starring Winona Ryder, the Bravo/IFC doc Richard Lester!, about the director, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and Drop Back Ten which premiered in Dramatic Competition at Sundance. While an MFA student at Columbia University, her short film Another Damaging Day premiered at the New York Film Festival. After disruptions in her work following September 11 2001, she received an Arthur Levitt Artist-in-Residence at Williams College. During that time, she also served as head of the Program Advisory committee at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams. In 2018, after this unscheduled directing hiatus, she completed Write When You Get Work starring Emily Mortimer, Finn Wittrock and Rachel Keller. Shot on Super16mm film by Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, the movie premiered in Narrative Competition at SXSW in March 2018. It will be presented in limited theatrical release this fall by Abramorama and will premiere on Amazon Prime in early 2019. Currently, Stacy is writing the screenplay for A Year on Ice, adapted from veteran New York Times sports-reporter Gerald Eskenazi’s book of the same name about the 1970 NHL season in New York. The movie will be a fictionalized thriller that Stacy plans to direct. She is also developing Fort Worth Holiday, set in Texas on November 21 1963, the night before the Kennedy assassination that would irrevocably change lives and the world.