STEPHEN M. KATZ (Director of Photography) studied design and photography at California Institute of the Arts and Art Center College of Design. He began his career working for Roger Corman and has photographed over fifty features in addition to numerous television and cable productions. Among his many feature films are the Academy and Golden Globe award-winning “Gods and Monsters,” “The Blues Brothers” and “Kentucky Fried Movie.” Other credits include Arthur Miller's “The American Clock,” “Baby Geniuses” and “I'll Remember April.” He worked with director Tom Moore on Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize play, film adaptation of “Night Mother” and on the musical “Geppetto” for the Walt Disney Company. Other notable work includes the feature film “Sister, Sister,” the television mini-series “A Death in the Family,” “Mrs. Santa Claus,” an original musical by Jerry Herman, starring Angela Lansbury, “The Rose Garden,” “The Lot” and the Emmy Award winning series “Dream On.”

Stephen commented, “I enjoy working on independent movies about people and places that demonstrate values and heart. HER MAJESTY is a beautifully written script and one of the best I’ve read since “Gods and Monsters.” Stephen felt it important that the photography of HER MAJESTY accentuate the contrast between the different worlds in which Hira and Elizabeth live and to reflect the changes that occur as their relationship builds throughout the story. For the look of 1953 Middleton, Stephen said, “I wanted to achieve a crispness of color with a pastel quality to allow certain colors to be saturated and pop out as they did in 1950’s films. The red and blue themes, such as the ribbon in Elizabeth’s hair, are like colorful musical notes that play throughout the film”.

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