As an award winning Hollywood director Stephen Gyllenhaal loves tackling challenging subjects through his movies, TV shows and documentaries, including Twin Peaks, Rectify, A Dangerous Woman, Losing Isaiah, Paris Trout, Girl Fight, Waterland, A Killing In a Small Town, Leap of Faith, Shattered Mind and In Utero.

He has published a book of poetry, Claptrap, Notes from Hollywood; is writing two new books, Enjoy it! and Liquid Motel and is a proud father and grandfather.

At the beginning of 2017 he embarked on two charitable projects – this movie and an educational Institute, focusing on the impact of trauma from conception through pre-verbal development. From the perspective of these two latest ventures he’s come to understand and experience the profound dysfunction of the so-called “non-profit sector” and has made it his mission to do everything he can to unleash the charitable/mission driven sector to do what it was charged to do – make this a far better world. Uncharitable is step one.