//QuickFacts
- 46 directorial and video awards
- over 200 music videos directed
- TV programming and documentaries also directed
- over 100 nominations for Best Director or Video
- 21 official number one hits in multiple countries
- over 60 official top 20 video hits
- millions of online views
- a fixture on national music video stations – MuchMusic, CMT, MuchMoreMusic, MTV
//Bio
Stephano Barberis has spent his life weaving countless epic fables. From an early age, his friends would sit around him as he created stories from scratch, then acted them out with toys, organic objects, or simply through pantomime. Using broken appliance and computer parts for wardrobe and passionately proclaiming where the camera would be placed captivated his fellow seven-year old peers. This little Greek fledgling storyteller began setting the foundation of what was soon to become a life-long obsession with spellbinding anyone within eyeshot. Even his cleverly written short stories were posted on elementary school walls by teachers in a rapturous (and often bewildered) celebration of his immaculate and otherworldly storytelling.
Fascinated by music, art, and ideas, Stephano went on to realize these passions and completed eight years of post secondary higher learning in urban planning. More interested in the map graphics and fonts employed in the textbooks than their actual message, Stephano began working at a film production company as a marketing assistant. It only took one meeting with a client where his loose cannon of a mind went off and Stephano was jostled into the director’s chair overnight, much to his producer’s terror. That jaw-dropping, room-silencing chance spawned a national top three video and a self-taught career.
Now, over 200 music videos later, Stephano has garnered 46 Director and Video Of The Year awards, including a Leo Award, 22 consecutive BCCMA's, and 13 CCMA, APCA, SCMA, and CMAO awards, in addition to over 100 nominations (including two MuchMusic MMVA’s). In the process, he has conceived and engineered the careers of countless artists as role of star-maker. The director is now the most awarded music video director in Canadian history.
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Representation: www.trepalm.com // www.trepalm.com/stephanobarberis
