Steven Greenstreet

Steven Greenstreet (born March 14, 1979) is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist, known for several documentaries about the campaigns to legalize same-sex marriage in the 2000s, particularly This Divided State and 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010), which was selected to premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. He has also worked as a video investigative journalist for The Huffington Post Investigative Fund and a video producer for the US State Department. Since 2014 he has been a video producer at the New York Post.

Biography Greenstreet grew up in a Mormon family in Pylesville, Maryland. After high school, he spent time as a Mormon missionary.

Career Greenstreet cites several documentaries he saw as a young adult, including The Thin Blue Line, Roger and Me and Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, as inspiring his dream to become a documentary filmmaker. a documentary about the tense political climate at Utah Valley State College and the surrounding conservative town of Orem. Shortly before the 2004 presidential election, the student council had invited left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore and conservative television host Sean Hannity to speak, leading to widespread protests. The film was well-received, with reviewers praising its objectivity and intimate documentation of political polarization. Greenstreet called the experience a "crash course" in "the whole spectrum of making a movie". He did not return to university after making the film. and reducing their political activism to a "beauty contest." He defended himself, saying his intention had been to elevate female members of the movement and that he considered "spirit of the video, and the voices within" to be "honorable and inspiring."

Between 2011 and 2013, Greenstreet directed Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life, a two-season MTV miniseries about Kesha's concert tours.

In 2016, as part of his role as video producer for the New York Post, he co-produced the video series The Banker Suicides, which won that year's Best Documentary prize at that year's Streamy Awards. In 2019, he began producing and hosting The Basement Office, a YouTube series investigating UFO sightings.

Filmography The Basement Office (2019–) (director/producer/host) The Curse of Don's Plum (2019) (producer) The Banker Suicides (2016) (producer) Kesha: My Crazy Beautiful Life (2013) (co-director/producer) 8: The Mormon Proposition (2010) (co-director/producer) Killer at Large (2008) (director/producer) This Divided State (2005) (director/producer)