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Stephen Garrett
Founder
Jump Cut NYC

NEW YORK, USA // Stephen Garrett is the founder of Jump Cut, a marketing company that creates movie trailers and posters for a wide variety of independent, foreign-language, and documentary films that have won Oscars, Golden Globes and top prizes at major film festivals throughout the world.

Garrett has won more than a dozen Golden Trailer Awards over the past two decades, and in that time has touted work by acclaimed directors such as Steven Soderbergh, Olivier Assayas, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, Paul Schrader, Errol Morris, Kelly Reichardt, Asghar Farhadi, George A. Romero, Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras, D.A. Pennebaker, and Ken Burns.

Recent clients include Sony Pictures Classics, IFC Films, Magnolia Pictures, A24, NEON, PBS, HBO, the Metropolitan Opera, and Netflix.

Garrett is also the former film editor of Time Out New York, and has written for Slate, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.