Biography - STEVEN ADA

Steven ADA is born in June 1970 in Paris (France).

He studies Communication & Advertising at school during the early 90’s, while playing music in a pop band.
Passionate by the CG and Graphic Design, Steven (as fully autodidact) became a pionneer in Europe of the mastery of After Effects and launched his artistic carrer with graphic films, in directing from home Motion Design and Titles Sequences for french TV channels (MCM, France TV, M6, ...).

During the late 90’s, he founds with his childhood friend (Eric Poulet) the young director duo “LES SP6MEN” (the speci-men), also a famous creative and independant digital FX studio named “Specimen”, to accompany all their creations with their own facilities.

The duo becomes in the middle of 2000’s one of the best music videos directors of the french scene (Zazie, Marc Lavoine, Raphael, Johnny Hallyday, Florent Pagny, Calogero, Superbus, ...), and signs major commercial campains to the french production company Les Télécréateurs (PMU, Volvic, Cote d’Or, BNP, Carte Noire, ...). They direct and produce also a 17 min thriller short film in 35mm (Rive Glauque).
In 2008, the 2 film-makers decid to break their close collaboration, to continue on each side a solo carrer.

Steven ADA is an all-rounder director, very precise and exigent. They say “a hard-worker and a perfectionnist”... with a gentle character, harmonious and very attentive to satisfy clients requirements. Steven is invested with a “professional” passion in working on original and impressive concepts, emotive and spectacular treatments, audacity and elegance. His perfect technical mastery let him totally independant from the shooting until the final post-production (Steven has never given up his skills on editing, compositing & vfx supervision).

Versatile, he works on several categories of visual films (sfx, car, beauty, visual storytelling, design & graphic, ...) with always a reaserch of esthetism in a natural and emotive visual approach.

40 years old, Steven develops today his carrer on Commercials to international (7UP, Maroc Telecom, Axa) through worldwide major representations, and offer with a creative French Touch' qualitative facilities in Post-Production and Visual FX for his projects.