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Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, Comic.

Rasheed Stephens is a director, writer, producer, actor, and stand-up comic living in Los Angeles. Hailing from the inner city of Atlanta, GA, Rasheed has written, produced and directed multiple award-winning indie films since 2012. 

Notable work includes his directorial debut film “Induced Effect,” for which Rasheed won Best Actor and was nominated for Best Director at the 2019 Back in the Box Film Festival, the romance drama “Between Forever” currently streaming on Peacock, which garnered him Best Actor at the 2021 Chicago Film Awards, as well as “Coffee & Cabbage” and “Loyalty,” both streaming on Tubi.

Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Writer, Editor.

Tehben Dean is a cinematographer and director based out of Los Angeles. Tehben has worked on a number of eminent documentary films and TV shows including Showtime’s “Bonded By Ball” (2023) and NBA documentary “Game Change Game,” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022. 

In between launching his career in his home state of Alaska and settling in Los Angeles, Tehben spent six years in Portland, Oregon, where he shot dozens of music videos, commercials, and short films. Some of his notable Portland work includes KGW’s Emmy-winning “Expressions in Black,” and his short film “The Last Incantation,” which won Best Adaptation at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 2019.In his 2023 directorial debut “All I've Got & Then Some,” Tehben stepped into an expanded realm of motion pictures with his narrative storytelling as a writer, producer, and editor of the film.

“All I’ve Got & Then Some” is a story about perseverance, chasing a dream with the odds stacked against you, and never giving up, even when it feels like you don’t have any other choice.

This film is our story; it’s about the artist’s struggle. We wanted to show the intricacies and intimacies of ourselves, as aspiring artists, in our rawest form.

Rasheed and I met in 2021 in Los Angeles—off of Bumble Biz, of all places—and we immediately clicked creatively. Both of us had started our journeys in earnest just over 10 years ago, and have been relentlessly pursuing our passion for storytelling ever since. In early 2023, we were finally gearing up to shoot the feature biopic, "East Point," about an inspirational maverick high school teacher in Atlanta, GA. However, talks of the SAG AFTRA strike threatened to derail the project—another delay, another setback in the pursuit of a dream. This left us with the all too common feeling of defeat, which unfortunately often feels par for the course with creative endeavors.

A couple of weeks later after much thought, I called Rasheed with an idea. When he picked up the phone, I said, "Hey, remember the idea you had for a web series? I think we should turn that concept into a film and just go shoot it." Rasheed almost dropped his phone. "No way man! I was literally thinking the exact same thing yesterday,  honest to God."

If there was ever a sign from the universe, that was it. It was clearly time to create our own opportunity. Time to just make it happen. We got together the next day and after a whirlwind of planning and help from our amazing network, we went into production two weeks later and shot the film over the course of seven days. 

We hope that by sharing our story we can inspire others to stick to their creative dreams, even when times are tough, because you truly can achieve them if you have faith in yourself and the guts to just go for it. 

We are honored to share our story with you, and we’re only just getting started.  

Tehben Dean & Rasheed Stephens