Stephen Applebaum is an experienced freelance writer. His specialist areas are film, entertainment and politics.

Stephen's current outlets include The Independent, The Scotsman, The Big Issue, the Sunday Herald, BBC Online, The Jewish Chronicle, The Australian and The Sunday Times in Perth. Stephen has also been published in The Times, The Culture (Sunday Times), The Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, Rolling Stone, and numerous other publications in the UK and abroad. Interviews conducted by Stephen were reproduced in The UK Film Finance Handbook 2005/06, published by Netribution.

Stephen can be commissioned for general features/profiles/news/sub-editing/copywriting, and for coverage of film festivals including Berlin, Cannes and Venice. He can be contacted at stephen@netribution.co.uk

Examples of Stephen's work can be read at:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article12667.ece

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article330595.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7943-991750,00.html

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=100612006

http://living.scotsman.com/film.cfm?id=365482006

http://living.scotsman.com/film.cfm?id=327102006

http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1855204,00.html