Stephanie Mercado
Experienced creative project manager specializing in narrative media, documentary film, and TV development and direction; producer and writer. Co-founder of LA’s pop-up book shop, CultLike LA.
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Stormbound (2025)
An intimate look at a chronically ill man who finds peace and beauty chasing the world's largest hurricanes.
From the executive producer of ‘Bowling for Columbine’ and ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ comes a moving account of Europe’s migrant crisis.
In 2015, at the height of the Syrian war, Raf’aa was forced to make a life-changing decision. With her husband, Nazem in hospital and the bombs getting closer, she fled Syria alone to seek asylum for her family. Nazem and their two boys plan to join her in Europe a few weeks later but by the time they were able to leave, it was too late. The political climate had changed. The borders to Europe were closed.
Safe in Germany but traumatized by what she witnessed on her journey, Raf’aa fights desperately for reunification, Two thousand miles away, Nazem and her children live through their own nightmare, trapped in one of the worst refugee camps in Europe.
Over the next eighteen months, we follow the journey of a family fighting to be reunited. A mother battles to bring her children to safety, while a father attempts to shield his children from what it means to be a refugee.
Watch the trailer below!
PRODUCTION INFO
Year: 2018
Duration: 87 & 52 mins
Production: Envoi Entertainment & Amarok Pictures
Director: Alexander J. Farrell
Available Versions: ENG, ESP
Country of production: United Kingdom & Canada
My career in film & television began at Participant Media as an intern. I worked my way up to Production Coordinator with their TV arm, Pivot, before joining the Page program at Paramount Studios.
From there, I went to Starz as an Executive Assistant to the VP of Development and as I began to independently produce Refugee (2018), I moved over to Peter Berg’s Film 45 as its Development Coordinator. The last nearly 5 years have been spent with Adam McKay’s newly minted production company, Hyperobject Industries, as a Creative Executive shepherding in projects in both tv and film.
I have had the joy of working on an incredible range of projects, both scripted and unscripted, and am grateful to have been apart of them to whatever capacity.
