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Stephen Best's professional life in film began in the summer of 1969 as a temporary assistant projectionist at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. Temporary became permanent, and his career path quickly traveled through film assistant, assistant film editor, negative cutter, sound editor, and finally film editor. At the CBC he worked on hundreds of productions that ranged from the Nature of Things to promotional spots, from Country Canada to filmed dramas, from Front Page Challenge to obituaries. In 1972, Stephen left the CBC to work as a freelance film editor. Editing jobs ranged from corporate films and television documentaries, to assistant sounding editing, to Foley stages. Moving beyond the editing suite, Stephen added writing, producing, directing and cinematography to his editing skills. Until 1980, Stephen was involved in hundreds of productions that
included wildlife documentaries that took him from the Canadian
north to South America, from Australia to the Philippines. On a
less peripatetic level, he worked in Toronto on travel programs,
corporate films, commercials, social documentary programming, and
a children's television series. In 1979-80 Stephen co-produced
with ITV-Edmonton the award-winning children's television series
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