Stephen R.

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Stephen Joel Root is a writer, director, actor, producer, editor, storyteller, artist and owner of Flag Film Productions in Flagstaff, Arizona. He originally hails from the frozen tundra of Minnesota where he first picked up a video camera to tell stories as a young boy with an overactive imagination. He studied film/video at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he won several student filmmaking awards and created short films that screened in film festivals around the country. After graduation he worked as a reporter/photojournalist for KPNX Channel 12 - Arizona's NBC affiliate for nearly a decade. He's what's called a backpack journalist in the T.V. journalism trade as he worked solo shooting, writing and editing T.V. news reports for daily broadcasts. His television journalism work has appeared on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, The Today Show, CNN and MSNBC among other networks and affiliates around the country. His feature film "Unconscious" was finished in 2012

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