Steven Eastwood

Fame for: Directing

Biography

Steven Eastwood is an artist-filmmaker. His second feature film ISLAND (2017) had its international premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2018 and was released in the UK from September 2018. The sister artwork The Interval and the Instant (2017) is a multiscreen video installation commissioned by Fabrica. His first feature Buried Land (2010) was officially selected for Tribeca, Moscow, Mumbai, Goteborg film festivals 2010. Eastwood’s work is often concerned with ethics, belief, mental health and physical disability. His documentary Those Who Are Jesus was nominated for a Grierson Award. Eastwood has screened and exhibited internationally. He has published widely and is Professor of Film Practice at Queen Mary University London, where he is Head of Film Practice. He lives and works in London.