Martha Stephens (born March 12, 1984) is an American film writer and director.
[1][2] Stephens was born in West Virginia and raised in eastern Kentucky.
[4][5][6] Stephens' first two feature films, Passenger Pigeons (2010) and Pilgrim Song (2012), premiered at the South by Southwest festival and received several awards.
(2014), which she co-directed with Aaron Katz, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival[9] and was purchased for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.
[12] Her fourth feature film To the Stars, with Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Malin Åkerman, and Tony Hale starring, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S.