BIO
Steven C. Barber is an American documentary filmmaker/motion picture combat photographer with three films on the Oscar shortlist in 2010, 2012 and 2016. The writer, author and conversationalist is the great nephew of Edith Wharton (Age of Inocence) the first female writer to win the Pulitzer Prize in the 1880s in affluent New York. Barber has lived in Santa Monica, California for the past twenty+ years.
HISTORY
Barber's father was a General Motors engineer who taught him to play golf - Barber is available to play in any celeb golf tourney. Steven's father was a master motor-ship Captain in Punta Gorda, Florida who passed in August of 2012, a month before Barber's great aunt Edith Wharton was featured in VOGUE, leaving Steven the heir to the Edith Wharton family fortune. Wharton was known as the richest woman in America in the 1880s, as her maiden name was Jones, thus the phrase "Keeping Up With the Joneses."
EARLY LIFE
Barber was born in Syracuse, New York on February 12, 1961, and grew up in Woodstock from 1970-76. After a three year stint at Augusta Military Academy in Ft. Defiance, Virginia in the late 1970’s and then graduating from Western Kentucky University in 1984, Mr. Barber headed west in a '74 Chevy to give his writing and acting chops a workout. Having worked on many films and a series of television shows in the early 1980’s, he took a break from Hollywood and found work and adventure on 19 cruise ships in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s that would take him to more than 5 million nautical miles to five of the earth's seven seas. His first novel “Below the Waterline” is a fictional and whimsical tale of the search for love on high seas, and is a big cruise novel seller on Amazon.com.
CURRENT WORK
Upon returning to Hollywood in the mid 1990’s Mr. Barber found some success as one of the first reality TV show personalities while he funded his work with sales in the entertainment industry. Steven's closed a Fortune 500 luxury automotive client for his corporate partner, and decided to cash in on the advertising world. He invested in his own documentary filmmaking production company. After meeting a local TV news anchor who was working in Product Integration to fund her Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology, she named their company Vanilla Fire. The media marketing publicity duo Barber/Henry created Vanilla Fire Productions and the first film Unbeaten (2010 Oscar Shortlist) was a smashing success, funded by Ten Billionaires, landing on the 2010 TIME magazine Top Ten Best Summer Olympic Documentaries list. Vanilla Fire produced a TV commercial awarded a Bronze CLIO Award in New York City in 2014; the video ad was for a major brand integration with the super star sports client Barber was representing and following to Rio, Brazil Olympics 2016. Vanilla Fire is in pre production on the reality docuseries The Doc Side. "Baby Boomer" Barber appeared most recently on a reality TV show the first week of January 2015 on VH1, after having met his current partner on the legendary show "Blind Date" in 2004.
FILMOGRAPHY
Director Steven C. Barber's films streamed to 50,000+ on Netflix; Vanilla Fire was welcomed home from the overseas mission by Clint Eastwood because 36 US Marines were repatriated from WWII after the films were released for four years on the Military Channel for Discovery, resulting in Congressional legislation being passed in D.C. to bring home MIAs from World War II. Actor Ed Harris lent his voice to this tremendous story of redemption and healing of 90+ year-old World War II veteran Leon Cooper in Malibu who passed in 2018 shortly after the death of Norm Hatch in Alexandria, VA, the first motion picture combat photographer.
Barber's film “Unbeaten” is a magical story about 31 Paraplegics who take on the world most grueling road race and push their wheelchairs 267 miles in six days between Fairbanks and Anchorage. This amazing film has narration from Dan Aykroyd. “Unbeaten” was released for release in early January 2010. Mr. Barber’s mission is to raise the profile of the disabled athlete and the disabled American. The success of Unbeaten and Return to Tarawa has allowed Vanilla Fire Productions to grow into a full service Documentary and Commercial video production house. Mr. Barber's PR background along with a strong work ethic and sales background sees no limits as to growth. Funds have been raised for “Until They Are Home”, the sequel to the wildly successful “Return to Tarawa”, and is scheduled for release on Memorial day. Directly following the Memorial Day release, a Veterans Day launch is scheduled for “The Carrier”, a film about the first basketball game aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Carl Vinson to celebrate the capture and death of the world's worst terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Mr. Barber was granted exclusive filming rights by the United States Navy to bring this incredible story to the world. In 2015 Vanilla Fire held a celebration at the American Legion Post 43 in Hollywood to honor the 36 US Marines who were repatriated from WWII as a result of the military film series:
Dan Aykroyd (Unbeaten) 2010 Oscar Shortlist - Clint Black "A Better Life"
Ed Harris (Return To Tarawa) Discovery's Military Channel
John Savage (The Carrier) Snag Films
Kelsey Grammer (Until They Are Home) Netflix, 2012 Oscar Shortlist - Clint Black "She Won't Let Go"
Ed Harris (Return To The Philippines) John Mellencamp "Troubled Man" and Kenny C ft. Tammy Cash "Coming Home"
Josh Brolin (Never Surrender) Pureflix, 2016 Oscar Shortlist - Edwin McCain "I'm Back" and Kenny C ft. Tammy Cash "Colors Of Freedom"
Steven C. Barber is an American documentary filmmaker/motion picture combat photographer with three films on the Oscar shortlist in 2010, 2012 and 2016. The writer, author and conversationalist is the great nephew of Edith Wharton (Age of Inocence) the first female writer to win the Pulitzer Prize in the 1880s in affluent New York. Barber has lived in Santa Monica, California for the past twenty+ years.
HISTORY
Barber's father was a General Motors engineer who taught him to play golf - Barber is available to play in any celeb golf tourney. Steven's father was a master motor-ship Captain in Punta Gorda, Florida who passed in August of 2012, a month before Barber's great aunt Edith Wharton was featured in VOGUE, leaving Steven the heir to the Edith Wharton family fortune. Wharton was known as the richest woman in America in the 1880s, as her maiden name was Jones, thus the phrase "Keeping Up With the Joneses."
EARLY LIFE
Barber was born in Syracuse, New York on February 12, 1961, and grew up in Woodstock from 1970-76. After a three year stint at Augusta Military Academy in Ft. Defiance, Virginia in the late 1970’s and then graduating from Western Kentucky University in 1984, Mr. Barber headed west in a '74 Chevy to give his writing and acting chops a workout. Having worked on many films and a series of television shows in the early 1980’s, he took a break from Hollywood and found work and adventure on 19 cruise ships in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s that would take him to more than 5 million nautical miles to five of the earth's seven seas. His first novel “Below the Waterline” is a fictional and whimsical tale of the search for love on high seas, and is a big cruise novel seller on Amazon.com.
CURRENT WORK
Upon returning to Hollywood in the mid 1990’s Mr. Barber found some success as one of the first reality TV show personalities while he funded his work with sales in the entertainment industry. Steven's closed a Fortune 500 luxury automotive client for his corporate partner, and decided to cash in on the advertising world. He invested in his own documentary filmmaking production company. After meeting a local TV news anchor who was working in Product Integration to fund her Masters Degree in Spiritual Psychology, she named their company Vanilla Fire. The media marketing publicity duo Barber/Henry created Vanilla Fire Productions and the first film Unbeaten (2010 Oscar Shortlist) was a smashing success, funded by Ten Billionaires, landing on the 2010 TIME magazine Top Ten Best Summer Olympic Documentaries list. Vanilla Fire produced a TV commercial awarded a Bronze CLIO Award in New York City in 2014; the video ad was for a major brand integration with the super star sports client Barber was representing and following to Rio, Brazil Olympics 2016. Vanilla Fire is in pre production on the reality docuseries The Doc Side. "Baby Boomer" Barber appeared most recently on a reality TV show the first week of January 2015 on VH1, after having met his current partner on the legendary show "Blind Date" in 2004.
FILMOGRAPHY
Director Steven C. Barber's films streamed to 50,000+ on Netflix; Vanilla Fire was welcomed home from the overseas mission by Clint Eastwood because 36 US Marines were repatriated from WWII after the films were released for four years on the Military Channel for Discovery, resulting in Congressional legislation being passed in D.C. to bring home MIAs from World War II. Actor Ed Harris lent his voice to this tremendous story of redemption and healing of 90+ year-old World War II veteran Leon Cooper in Malibu who passed in 2018 shortly after the death of Norm Hatch in Alexandria, VA, the first motion picture combat photographer.
Barber's film “Unbeaten” is a magical story about 31 Paraplegics who take on the world most grueling road race and push their wheelchairs 267 miles in six days between Fairbanks and Anchorage. This amazing film has narration from Dan Aykroyd. “Unbeaten” was released for release in early January 2010. Mr. Barber’s mission is to raise the profile of the disabled athlete and the disabled American. The success of Unbeaten and Return to Tarawa has allowed Vanilla Fire Productions to grow into a full service Documentary and Commercial video production house. Mr. Barber's PR background along with a strong work ethic and sales background sees no limits as to growth. Funds have been raised for “Until They Are Home”, the sequel to the wildly successful “Return to Tarawa”, and is scheduled for release on Memorial day. Directly following the Memorial Day release, a Veterans Day launch is scheduled for “The Carrier”, a film about the first basketball game aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier Carl Vinson to celebrate the capture and death of the world's worst terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Mr. Barber was granted exclusive filming rights by the United States Navy to bring this incredible story to the world. In 2015 Vanilla Fire held a celebration at the American Legion Post 43 in Hollywood to honor the 36 US Marines who were repatriated from WWII as a result of the military film series:
Dan Aykroyd (Unbeaten) 2010 Oscar Shortlist - Clint Black "A Better Life"
Ed Harris (Return To Tarawa) Discovery's Military Channel
John Savage (The Carrier) Snag Films
Kelsey Grammer (Until They Are Home) Netflix, 2012 Oscar Shortlist - Clint Black "She Won't Let Go"
Ed Harris (Return To The Philippines) John Mellencamp "Troubled Man" and Kenny C ft. Tammy Cash "Coming Home"
Josh Brolin (Never Surrender) Pureflix, 2016 Oscar Shortlist - Edwin McCain "I'm Back" and Kenny C ft. Tammy Cash "Colors Of Freedom"