Stephen Wise was born in Michigan. At age eight, friends of his invited him to participate in a "home movie" they were making. This set him on a course of filmmaking where he wrote and directed his own films on Super 8 through his teen years. His family moved to Texas and then to Oklahoma, where he earned an Associate's Degree in Broadcasting. He then relocated to Orlando, where he was one of the first 30 students inducted into the inaugural class of the University of Central Florida's film program and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree cum laude. With a love of writing, Stephen focused on screenwriting. He received accolades for multiple screenplays he wrote, including "Paradigm", which won 6 awards internationally. He co-wrote a script for a proposed Batman film that was in consideration at Warner Bros., but was eventually passed over in favor of the reboot "Batman Begins." IFC listed his effort as one of the seven best unproduced Batman scripts (http://www.ifc.com/2012/01/batman-unproduced-screenplays) and the Hollywood Reporter featured the screenplay in an article in June 2015 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-movie-series-list-unmade-802032). He has also been a screenwriting judge for the Blue Cat Screenwriting Competition and for the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. He has had a varied career in film production and in the private sector. Among the dozen short films he wrote, directed, and/or produced, several played in film festivals around the world. He wrote, directed, and produced "Sur'vi", which won 20 awards from countries around the world. He directed and produced the pilot for the TV series "Blackwater Blues" starring Corin Nemec and Jason London. He has worked on video projects for Walt Disney World and Lockheed Martin, as well as winning five Addy Awards for commercials he produced and directed. He has worked in theater, both onstage and behind the scenes as director and technical director. He appeared as a background performer in "Jurassic World" and "Fantastic Four." If you don't blink, you might see him. Short stories have always been a creative outlet for him. He published a collection of stories he wrote entitled "Portals of the Mind" and the stand-alone short story "The Melting Man". His favorite genres are adventure, science fiction, horror, fantasy, and suspense--basically anything that sparks his imagination. His favorite authors are Stephen King, Piers Anthony, Orson Scott Card, Alan Dean Foster, Tad Williams, Caleb Carr, Ray Bradbury, and Agatha Christie. Stephen currently works as a Creative Services producer in Pensacola and is also the Programming Director for the pop culture convention Pensacon.