STEPHAN MCGUIRE

Director, Activist, Producer

TREE MEDIA

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TREE TEAM
Leila Conners
Mathew F. Schmid
Stephan McGuire
Johanna Schulte-Hillen

Farzin A. Illich

Thomas Mai

TREE FOUNDERS
Leila Conners
Nadia Conners

TREE BOARD
Jacques Attali

John Perry Barlow
James Wright Conners
Pat Mitchell
Nathan Gardels
Thomas Mintz
Paul Schwartzmann
Stanley Sheinbaum

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Stephan is a Former Jehovah's Witness, Director and a Producer of the documentary film Losing My Religion and a Co-Founder of Lost & Found based in London.   Upon leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses by 1998, he realized the importance of activism and becoming the change that the world needs to see.  By 2005, Stephan began pre-production on Losing My Religion.

Stephan is President and Founder of Coalition for a Sustainable Africa (CSAfrica).  Based in Santa Monica, CA, CSAfrica is an international coalition, of nonprofit organizations offering sustainable solutions for grass-roots initiatives to empower the people and communities throughout Africa.  He recently directed the documentary Trees on a Canvas which showcases Namibia and how it has become a role-model nation in regards to developing smart commercial partnerships and sustainable economic ventures based on natural resources.  Stephan is currently developing Developing Empowerment for Economic Prosperity (DEEP), which is an international business development holding company to develop strategic alliances and for-profit subsidiaries in the African countries where CSAfrica and its member organizations are actively working.

For most of the past 11 years, Stephan has been a Producer with Tree Media Group and  recently was the Assoc Producer of the documentary The 11th Hour, narrated and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. He also produced Woody Harrelson's Voice Yourself in 2003, Co-Directed the 11th Hour Action campaign as well as web portals for Global Green USA, the Official 2000 Presidential Campaign Library for the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as for California's Heal the Bay.  Stephan is a Producer on the upcoming film Renaissance 2.0, and Associate Producer of the upcoming film Urban Roots.

His personal mission is that The 11th Hour isn't only a film, but a campaign and Human Rights movement. He has taken it upon himself to keep a momentum going. In April, 2009, Stephan was the recipient of the Green Dot Awardʼs “Visionary of the Year”. 

Bringing 11th Hour Action to Africa, Stephan was Executive Director of Green Awareness Africa (GAWA), where with Founder Gareth Amos, he spent most of 2009 implementing sustainability programs in Namibia, Africa before handing the charity over to local Namibians. Among the projects spearheaded is “Green Zone Schools” and an anti-plastic-shopping bag campaign for Namibia. In partnership with the Namibian Nature Foundation, he has also directed an upcoming documentary focusing on Namibiaʼs position as a role model nation in sustainability. All of these projects are officially mandated programs, directly partnered with the Namibian American Embassy, 5 Namibian Ministers including the Prime Minister, and large African corporations who are taking the lead in environmental awareness and action.

Stephan has studied sustainable, earth-restorative farming and living practices called "Permaculture" on the island of Hawaii in 2001-2002 and in Costa Rica 2003-2004, where he became a certified Permaculture Teacher. Permaculture techniques focus on making our communities healthy, culturally rich, and self-reliant models of integrated living. He also attended city colleges and universities in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Stephan shares his time between his home in Santa Monica, CA, traveling around the world and is currently setting up a CSAfrica & DEEP's office in Cape Town, South Africa.