Steve Bilich graduated from the University of Texas, with a degree in radio-tv-film, and a minor in business & theatre. His theatre acting credits include a few off-Broadway ensemble pieces and some off off Broadway performances, including a few one-man-shows. The films that he has written, directed, and produced have been invited to Sundance, Slamdance, Raindance, Moondance, Berlin, Manheim-Heidelberg, the Smithsonian Museum for the American Indian (Native Works), Woodstock, Wounded Knee, the Brooklyn Museum, SXSW, the Austin film festival, Vancouver, LA Shorts, United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford, the Academy of Science Mansion in NYC, and The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
NATIVE NEW YORKER - DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“Native New Yorker” was shot through the eye & body of a 1924 hand-crank, spring-wound Cine-Kodak camera, which I found at a flea market at 26th & 6th in the Chelsea area of Manhattan in 1999. The camera cost me less than half the cost of the island of Manhattan (supposedly sold for $24 in 1724 ano, but actually stolen by occupied forces on Native American territories). The camera cost $9.00 dollars and change, and was purchased from an Australian Aboriginal, trying to get back home to the outback.. Interesting that the main subject of this film is an American Aboriginal; Terry 'Coyote' Murphy, of Gaelic/Cherokee dissent.