Steve Olpin is a filmmaker and commercial director with a documentary, art and action sports background. Steve also works as an on-set photographer on TV and movies. His films have been screened and honored in national and international film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival. The Heartland Film Festival honored him as a visionary with the Crystal Heart Award for his documentary films The Potter’s Meal and In The Presence of Healers. His work explores passionate people. His feature length documentary “Nasty’s World” won Grand Prize at the 2003 X-Dance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. His most rewarding work to date is for the documentary series Turning Point, Steve has been director / director of photography on 12 half hour episodes. Steve recently directed 20 episodes of a travel TV called “Painting the Town, with Eric Dowdle”. Steve has an ongoing short documentary project on Youtube called “The Talking Fly”.

Home photo: a snap of Jorge on a project in Baja Mexico