Steph West Media owns and operates Eleven One Productions, Red Fern Press, and Steph West Law. Her companies are unabashedly pro-female storytelling outlets that focus on women owning and creating stories for and about them. See below what Steph West is, is not, and what she believes in.
What Steph Is About
Steph is about disrupting the stereotype-driven portrayal of women perpetuated by film, the sports world, and the media, by cultivating a more accurate and inclusive representation of women through additive and inclusive storytelling that moves beyond a “type” of female to include and represent the spectrum and variance of the whole female experience.
Steph believes that women, who make-up fifty percent of the world’s population, should own an equal part of the storytelling and representation that is for and about them, and that storytelling should be an additive representation that includes all types of women.
What Steph Is Not About
Steph is not anti-men.
Far from it, Steph loves men. What she’s striving for is an equal share of the storytelling that is for and about women.
The truth is that male stereotypes and biases often are what create female stereotypes and biases. When men believe they must exhibit toxic masculinity traits, they inadvertently create an unequal dynamic that women must then be subservient to those traits. For women to escape their “types,” men must also be allowed to grow outside of theirs.
How Did Steph Get Here?
Steph has worked in male-dominated fields her entire professional life. She began in journalism, where she worked as an investigative reporter in the crime and courts beats, before moving into sports media covering the National Hockey League as both a digital reporter and a guest broadcast journalist for Blue Jackets Live. She then began working in the film industry as a screenwriter, indie producer, and eventually worked in education as a professor after receiving her MFA in Creative Writing.
In all three of these worlds—film, media, and sports—West noticed an eerily similar through line:
“The representation of women’s stories, media, video, sexuality, age, personality, etc., and the creation of those representations, was owned almost exclusively by men.“
It quickly became clear to West that men were controlling the narrative of the majority of women’s stories, representation, and ultimately their lives, through these three powerful industries.
One thing became urgently apparent to Steph:
“Women needed to own more storytelling in these worlds.“
And now here we are. Steph owns her own indie publishing and production companies and soon will operate her own law firm. She is a 2027 J.D. Candidate at Ohio Northern University and has completed one year of law school.
Steph wants to act as a catalyst in changing the narrative of women’s lives. Her mission is to serve women and provide them opportunities to tell stories that entertain, excite, inspire, and make people think. The mission is to help women strengthen their voice and opportunities in the film, media, and sports industries and to partner with organizations and creatives who have the same mission
Check out her contact page to query her company or reach her for a film or book project.
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