In addition to serving as the founding artistic director of TCFF, Steve is a widely published film critic and former member of the New York Film Critics Circle. His writing on film has appeared in the pages of TIME, PEOPLE, Newsday and the New York Sun, and has been syndicated nationwide by Internet Broadcasting Systems. He has also lectured on film at the University of Minnesota, taught film criticism at the Gotham Writers Workshop, and served as a screener for a range of other film festivals, including the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and the Milwaukee International Film Festival in Wisconsin. He splits his time between Brooklyn and Minneapolis and can regularly be found scouting films for TCFF at Tribeca, South By Southwest, the Los Angeles Film Festival and Toronto.