Stevan Mena
Birthdate: March 7, 1971 (55 Years Old)
Birthplace: Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York
Stevan Mena is a multi-threat moviemaker who has been a feature director/writer/producer/editor/composer since 2003, when his debut slasher-horror movie, Malevolence (2003), was released by Anchor Bay Films to an approximate $350,000 return and spawned a movie series. Mena’s second feature as director/writer/producer/editor/composer was the comic mockumentary, Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007), co-starring David Naughton, Brian O’Halloran, Gerry Bednob, and Gunnar Hansen, and released by Anchor Bay.
Mena was director/writer/producer/editor/composer of the Malevolence prequel and second film in the series, Bereavement (2010), starring Michael Biehn, Alexandria Daddario, Brett Rickaby, and John Savage, and again released by Anchor Bay. Mena was once more the director/writer/producer/editor/composer of the third Malevolence series entry, Malevolence 3: Killer (2018), with Katie Gibson, Kevin McKelvey, Adrienne Barbeau, and Ashley Wolfe, and released direct to video.
Stevan Mena shifted into the psychological thriller mode as director/writer/producer of The Ruse (2025), starring Veronica Cartwright, Madelyn Dundon, Michael Steger, Michael Bakkensen, and T.C. Carter, and released by Seismic Releasing and Mena Films after premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
Personal life
Stevan Mena was born and raised in the community of Astoria in New York City’s Queens borough by his parents, Victor and Christine. He has two brothers, Jason and Karl. Mena attended and graduated from W.T. Clarke High School and then majored in Communications at the New York Institute of Technology. He has been married to Diane since 1998; the couple has two daughters, Samantha and Victoria. Mena’s height is 6’.
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Influences: Stephan Mena has cited his major filmmaking influences as Ridley Scott, John Carpenter, and Clint Eastwood, as well as influential film composers Bill Conti, John Williams, Alan Silvestri, and the band Goblin.
Favorite Films: Mena has noted that his favorite films are Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992), Rocky (1976), Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men (1957), Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942), Ray Bradbury’s and Stuart Gordon’s The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998), Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2011) and W.S. Van Dyke’s movie version of Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man (1934).
Novelist: Mena is a novelist, with his 2015 novel, Transcience, published in several languages by Goldmann.
