Stephen Auerbach

Stephen Auerbach (born August 8) is a Santa Monica, California based American filmmaker and television producer.

Contents

• Race Across America A Film by Stephen Auerbach Bicycle Dreams
• Bicycle Movies A New Film by Stephen Auerbach
• Awards
• Filmography
• Television
• References

Auerbach has created over 200 hours of programming for major network broadcast, cable and syndication outlets, including ABC, NBC, FOX, A&E, LMN, TLC and DISCOVERY. His work has been viewed in over 100 countries around the world.

Auerbach released Bicycle Dreams in 2010.

Bicycle Dreams was a smash hit and one of the first indie films to be a social media phenomenon. The film enjoyed a worldwide theatrical release, a very strong DVD market and won 17 Film Festival Awards. Bicycle Dreams stands as one of the highest grossing independently distributed documentaries of all time.

Auerbach’s feature documentary, Race Across America aired on NBC and received the highest ratings in the network’s history for an event of its' kind. The film went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Boulder International Film Festival. Other films directed by Auerbach include The Circus Comes to Town, about traveling circus troupes of the Great Depression era, and The Memory Box, about a group of African social activists working to lift Ethiopia out of poverty and despair.

Auerbach has also won multiple film festival awards for his work as a film editor.

Auerbach began his career as a staff writer for comedian Richard Belzer.