Stephen Whipple is a Chicago-based writer, director, and photographer. Originally from Vermont, Whipple relocated to the midwest for undergraduate studies and transitioned to film soon thereafter, working in the lighting department on numerous commercial television and feature film sets for studios such as appleTv, amazon prime, mgm+, and amc. as a director, His first short film, PECKISH, won the Best First Time Filmmaker Award at Cannes World Film Festival 2023. Whipple is currently developing a feature film, IDLE HOURS, a quiet drama. in August 2024, He and his core collaborators completed his second short film, WAITING FOR VERA. In 2023, he had the pleasure of working under the award winning director and cinematographer, Alik Sakharov, during the production of appletv’s science-fiction series, dark matter.