Steven De Castro

Steven De Castro is an award-winning filmmaker in the midst of several documentary projects. He is in postproduction with Heroes of the Philippines, a documentary on the Ampatuan Massacre, the greatest murder of journalists in human history. A few months ago he returned from West Africa where he filmed Blood Drum Spirit, a documentary where Massachusetts jazz musicians go to West Africa to discover the roots of African American music. He is in production for a documentary about the New People’s Army, an armed revolutionaries fighting in the Philippines. He currently is releasing Fred Ho’s Last Year, a feature film about an avante garde jazz composer and public intellectual who is dying of cancer. Aside from other commercial works, he produced and directed Newyorkustan, a series about the lives of Muslim New Yorkers. Before he was a filmmaker, De Castro was a trial lawyer and served as Human Rights Commissioner of Jersey City.