Steve Mims is an Austin based filmmaker whose award-winning films have screened widely in festivals and on television. Vincent Canby of the New York Times called Steve’s short AUNT HALLIE, “A treasure…which belongs on everybody’s list of the top-10 funniest nine-minute movies ever made.” His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Film Society of Lincoln Center, New Directors/New Films) Bilbao, Spain, Hamburg, Germany and Moscow. His film awards include the American-Soviet Film Initiative Pick (Ann Arbor Film Festival) the Gold Apple Award (National Educational Film Festival) and the Silver Hugo Award (Chicago International Film Festival).

Steve's short WEBB WILDER, PRIVATE EYE: THE SAUCER'S REIGN became a late night television cult film in the mid 1980's and helped spawn the roots rock band WEBB WILDER AND THE BEATNECKS and successful recording and filmmaking efforts that continue at the present time.

His feature film THE PERFECT SPECIMEN premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and then on SHOWTIME. His concert film LIZARDS TIMES TWENTY: AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS LIVE AT ANTONES, premiered at SXSW and was released on DVD by Blue Corn Records. His short film TANK 47 premiered at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and at the Austin Film Festival in 2004.

Television broadcasts include ITALIAN PUBLIC TELEVISION, CAMPUS NETWORK, USA NETWORK, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT, THE LEARNING CHANNEL and PBS. A compilation of three of his shorts (WEBB WILDER'S CORN FLICKS) was released nationally by BMG/Zoo Entertainment.

His music videos include work for The Naughty Ones, Pat McLaughlin, Cotton Mather, Webb Wilder, Stephen Bruton, Los Straitjackets, and Billy Joe Shaver. His videos have aired on MORE MUSIC, TNN, CMT EUROPE, CMT, M2 and MTV. His video of Billy Joe Shaver’s HOTTEST THING IN TOWN was voted Best Music Video 1994 by the Austin Chronicle.

His documentary work includes THE ONE ARM DOVE HUNT, LIVE FOREVER, THE LIFE AND SONGS OF BILLY JOE SHAVER, AND SOUZAY: A LIFE IN ART.

Steve also works commercially as a writer, director, producer and editor. His commercial work has won the Bronze Anvil (Public Relations Society of America), district level ‘Addys’ and the Citation of Excellence from the American Advertising Foundation.

Steve earned a Master of Arts degree in film from the University of Texas at Austin and taught Film One, Film Two and Film Editing there from 1989 to 1993. For over fourteen years he's offered college-level filmmaking classes through his company Austin FilmWorks.

His most recent projects include a short biographical documentary "god/man/accordion", SOUTHFORK PILGRIMS, a short documentary about the fans of the television series DALLAS for the BOB BULLOCK TEXAS HISTORY MUSEM, and WEBB WILDER'S SCATTERGUN, which was filmed in August of 2006 and is now in film festivals around the country.

This spring Steve is teaching RTF 366K Introduction to Narrative Production at the University of Texas at Austin.

Visit Steve's production company www.stevemimsfilms.com