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Hey, I'm Shane!
Jersey City, New Jersey
Shane is a Globetrotting/ Artist/ Writer/ Director (GAWD) and graduate of NYU Tisch in Film Production. He would like to make his first feature film in the near feature with a little help. Shane has worked all over Asia and hopes to travel to South America someday.
My Projects
Projects I'm Supporting
Drought
Wilmington, North Carolina• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
The summer after high school, Sam searches for a better life for herself and younger brother with Autism.
This project got the green light!
Miles Underwater
San Antonio, Texas• Film Feature
Drama, Family
13-year-old Miles is struggling to find where he belongs when an unusual event forces him to face his biggest fear and take a leap of faith.
This project got the green light!
The Alluring Frontier
Phoenix, Arizona• Film Short
Sci-Fi, Western
A small town in the old west gets consumed by a dark force that uses the power of temptation to try and turn everyone into demonic minions.
This project got the green light!
The Paradox
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama
A life of solace is suddenly subverted by a mysterious stranger in a story of relationships and redemption
This project got the green light!
The Mile Ground
Morgantown, West Virginia• Film Feature
Drama, Mystery
The contents of a strange safety deposit box send an opioid addict down a risky road that will lead to her redemption or final destruction
This project got the green light!
The Cold Days of Summer
Utica, New York• Film Feature
Crime, Drama
A boxer battles injury, criminals, and an authoritarian school board to save his scholarship and learn the true cost of the American dream
This project got the green light!
Emma Was Here
Medford, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama
A terminally-ill woman goes on a trip with friends before deciding whether she will go through with her choice of physician-assisted dying.
This project got the green light!
Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry
Duluth, Minnesota• Film Feature
Adventure, Comedy
An opportunistic asshole joins the quest of a delusional man who thinks he’s in a fantasy world.
This project got the green light!
AUGGIE
Fairfield, Connecticut• Film Feature
Drama, Sci-Fi
Forced into early retirement, a man falls in love with his new augmented reality companion, driving away his wife and daughter.
This project got the green light!
Give And Take
Asheville, North Carolina• Film Feature
Comedy, Documentary
In this sincere comedy about parenting, a father who's lost custody of his rebellious daughter kidnaps her in a plan to save her future.
This project got the green light!
LION KILLER
Houston, Texas• Film Feature
Drama
Fighting Solves Everything
This project got the green light!
Parallel Chords
St. Louis, Missouri• Film Feature
Drama, Music
A young violinist struggles to break free from her pianist father to find her own voice.
This project got the green light!
The Way It Goes
Shawnee, Johnson County• Film Feature
Comedy, Romantic Comedy
Sometimes life just doesn't go as planned.
This project got the green light!
The Inner Edge
Old Bridge Township, New Jersey• Film Feature
Drama, Fantasy
A NJ cop struggling with changes in her life, has to save a suicidal stranger to unlock what powers lie within her.
This project got the green light!
Between Heaven and Hell
Riverside, California• Film Feature
Drama, Fantasy
On 11/22/63, John F. Kennedy, CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died within moments of each other and meet in a place “somewhere beyond death”
This project got the green light!
DULCINEA
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
A suicidal man stumbles upon a ring that allows him to travel anywhere in the world with one condition: he can't go to the same place twice
This project got the green light!
Project Gaslight
Rochester, Minnesota• Film Feature
Horror, Thriller
New tenants harbor a secret that jeopardizes a young family as the pregnant wife descends into paranoia and delusion.
This project got the green light!
The MisEducation of Bindu
Indianapolis, Indiana• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
Thrust into American public school by her mother’s new marriage, a wide-eyed Indian teen teams up with a band geek to survive.
This project got the green light!
Lost Bayou
Lafayette, Louisiana• Film Feature
Drama, Family
A struggling addict ventures out into the Louisiana swamp to discover that her estranged faith healer father is hiding a troubling secret.
This project got the green light!
Little Evil Bookshop
Seattle, Washington• Film Feature
Comedy, Satire
When the world's most powerful occult leader visits a modest mystic bookshop, its owner must impress him at all costs.
This project got the green light!
Stormie
Santa Maria, California• Film Feature
Biography, Drama
An adopted Hispanic teenager looks for his birth family in an attempt to find his place of belonging.
This project got the green light!
Bring Me an Avocado
San Francisco, California• Film Feature
Drama
When a violent encounter leaves Robin in a coma, her family ventures to maintain normalcy for her children while managing their own grief.
This project got the green light!
A Room Full of Nothing
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Adventure, Romance
In this Swiss Army Man meets Eternal Sunshine adventure an artistic couple's life takes a bizarre turn when they wake up alone in the world.
This project got the green light!
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nēar
Stockton, California• Film Feature
Crime, Drama
"nēar" follows 17-year-old Julian upon his escape from the hospital on Christmas Eve, the day which is literally the last day of his life.
This project got the green light!
The Place in Between
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
What could possibly go wrong when a mom and her teenage daughter meet for the first time on a road trip across TX? . . . Everything.
This project got the green light!
I'll Be Around
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, Comedy
Against the backdrop of a post-punk music festival, a handful of 30-somethings deal with a wide variety of social and philosophical issues
This project got the green light!
ACID TEST (feature development)
Houston, Texas• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
The absurdly dramatic coming-of-age story of a teenage girl who launches a rebellion when she drops acid and goes home to her parents.
This project got the green light!
This Is Our Home
Media, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Drama, Thriller
A struggling couple's weekend getaway goes awry when a child arrives in the middle of the night claiming he's their son.
This project got the green light!
High Note
Friday Harbor, Washington• Film Feature
Crime, Musical
Just your everyday druggie, dramedy, indie musical filled to the brim with Germans, Jesus, banjos, bongos, and backstabbings.
This project got the green light!
Test: A Classic American Story....On Steroids
New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County• Film Feature
Sport, LGBTQ
A young bodybuilder living in Ohio defies his religious mother when he follows the county's best coach into a world of steroid abuse
This project got the green light!
The Atavist
Pittsfield, Berkshire County• Film Feature
Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young woman travels to the past, but when the things she leaves alter history, she must get them back to save the future.
This project got the green light!
D.I.Y.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Comedy, LGBTQ
A queer couple is determined to tie the knot their own way.
This project got the green light!
Big Dog City
San Francisco, California• Film Feature
Drama, Other
Set within Bay Area art/slacker culture, we follow two characters as they weave across a place and identity which doesn't fit them anymore.
This project got the green light!
What Lies West
Santa Rosa, California• Film Feature
Adventure, Drama
Two girls desperate to create their own adventure set out into the wilderness of California on a daring hike to the coast.
This project got the green light!
"SURE-FIRE" - Development Funding Phase II
New York City, New York• Film Feature
Comedy, Crime
SURE-FIRE is a comedy about a NYC con man having a mid-life crisis who stumbles into becoming a movie producer to pay off gangsters.
This project got the green light!
Palace
Bloomington, Indiana• Film Feature
Drama
The family-fractured lives of a stubborn mechanic, a retired widower, and a repressed college student intertwine at a bar in rural Indiana.
This project got the green light!
Bedsheet Man
Bradenton, Florida• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
A middle aged man looses his son to suicide only to find a strange way to cope with his grief. He becomes the superhero that his son always
This project got the green light!
White Death
Needham, Norfolk County• Film Feature
Drama
A construction worker tries to leave the family business to pursue his life long dream of making a documentary about great white sharks.
This project got the green light!
Epiphany
Tarpon Springs, Florida• Film Feature
Drama, Family
A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her.
This project got the green light!
Mini Lights
Saint Petersburg, Florida• Film Feature
Horror
A group of skaters roams the haunted nooks of St. Petersburg Fl. where an unquenchable tragedy watches from the darkness waiting for a host.
This project got the green light!
Xerxes
Jersey City, New Jersey• Film Feature
Sci-Fi, Thriller
While recovering at his estranged childhood home from cochlear implant surgery, Xerxes spirals down the rabbit hole and may never climb out.
This project got the green light!
High
Tabernash, Colorado• Film Short
Drama, Experimental
An unnerved young mother and a footloose ski bum unearth suppressed desires in a hazardous twist of encounters.
This project got the green light!
worst.christmas.ever.
Youngstown, Ohio• Film Feature
Comedy, Teen
A dark comedy about a 15-year-old girl whose entire world falls apart after she discovers that she's pregnant on Christmas Eve.
This project got the green light!
A Stray Ember
Lancaster, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Drama, Thriller
The agoraphobic victim of a home invasion takes to the road in a motor home, but a figure from her past threatens her new found freedom.
This project got the green light!
Just Like The Men
Bellingham, Washington• Film Feature
Comedy, History
Two girls find a lost screenplay and decide to give history the middle finger.
This project got the green light!
Minneapolis (the movie)
Minneapolis, Minnesota• Film Feature
Comedy, Family
A cocky news anchor team gets stuck "mentoring" an at-risk teen. Shenanigans and dastardly weather conditions ensue…
This project got the green light!
WILLIE, JAMALEY & THE CACACOON
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Adventure, Comedy
Two misfits adventure out to prove the existence of a local mythological creature.
This project got the green light!
The Blue Whale
Catoosa, Oklahoma• Film Feature
Teen, Drama
In 1980's rural Oklahoma a teenage boy meets a girl from California who helps him break out of his shell and learn the truth of his heritage
This project got the green light!
Fantastic Santa Monaco
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, Satire
A film about a group of performance artists who are looking for love, connection and significance in Los Angeles.
This project got the green light!
Contemporary Mating Rituals
Los Angeles, California• Series
Romantic Comedy
After a brutal break up, Maya signs up for online dating and is thrown into a whole new world of dating rules and rituals.
This project got the green light!
Amal
Orange, California• Film Short
Drama
When a young Syrian refugee living in America witnesses her mother being discriminated against, she begins to question her cultural identity
This project got the green light!
Coast
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama, Romance
A couple journeys up the California coastline, exploring their history and undeniable connection.
This project got the green light!
VOXGIRL
Orange, California• Film Short
Thriller, Music
A former kids’ TV actor who has garnered an unwanted cult following looks to reinvent herself and legitimize her music career.
This project got the green light!
The American Mistake
Nashville, Tennessee• Film Short
Comedy, Shorts Program
A woman wakes up after a night of heavy drinking and, well, you know the rest. Or do you?
This project got the green light!
Mann & Quinn
Orlando, Florida• Film Short
Drama, Romance
A Middle Eastern woman, separated from her husband, spends a romantic New Year's evening with a mannequin.
This project got the green light!
By River's Edge
Orange, California• Film Short
Sci-Fi, Family
A grandfather with Alzheimer's disease rediscovers his dream of reaching the moon when a mysterious, strange girl knocks at his front door.
This project got the green light!
Rich Kids
Houston, Texas• Film Feature
Drama
A group of Latino teens in a poor community break into Los Ricos, a local mansion, to forget their difficult lives and live a different one.
This project got the green light!
CUT
Middletown, Connecticut• Film Short
Action, Sci-Fi
The story of two best friends trapped in an unwed mothers home who fight to hold onto their memories, and ultimately their friendship.
This project got the green light!
Stunt Mom
New York City, New York• Film Short
Comedy, Family
She's an ordinary mom that cooks and cleans but as a professional stunt woman she also flips, falls and fights!
This project got the green light!
Her First Kill
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Thriller
A religious young mother abducts her best friend to find out the truth about her missing sister.
This project got the green light!
Interference
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Thriller
A violent altercation between a police officer and a black man left one person dead. A couple passing by must decide what they believe.
This project got the green light!
CASHED
New York City, New York• Film Short
Comedy, Drama
Suddenly unemployed on her 25th birthday, Jess struggles to find peace (and pot) amidst the unique obstacles of life as a Millennial in NYC.
This project got the green light!
Control
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Comedy, Drama
A woman suffering from OCD tries to write a suicide note that takes into consideration every single loose end in her life.
This project got the green light!
An Act of Terror
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County• Film Short
Drama, History
The true story of Virginia Christian, a 16-year-old African American girl accused of murder in the Jim Crow South.
This project got the green light!
The Decades of Mason Carroll
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Sci-Fi
A man who cannot age, wishing to hide, learns to slip into then out of intimate relationships until he is forced to confront his fears.
This project got the green light!
Exposure
Pepin, Wisconsin• Film Feature
Romance, LGBTQ
Two women set off on separate journeys of self-reflection and contemplation. What happened between them? How did the relationship die?
This project got the green light!
THOSE PEOPLE: A Love Story
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, Romance
Taylor and Mehran meet, and fall in love despite their cultural differences, but their bliss is threatened when family tensions escalate.
This project got the green light!
How To Do Everything
New York City, New York• Series
Comedy
A group of young actors in NYC navigate their way through survival jobs, zany acting teachers, and awkward romance.
This project got the green light!
About a Donkey
New York City, New York• Film Feature
Comedy, LGBTQ
A quirky ensemble comedy about growing up, about growing old, and about a donkey.
This project got the green light!
EMIKO
Seattle, Washington• Film Short
Horror, Thriller
A kind caregiver watches over a deeply ill woman only to discover not everything appears as it seems and something far sinister lies within.
This project got the green light!
Half the Picture
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Documentary
HALF THE PICTURE is a feature documentary about working women directors in Hollywood.
This project got the green light!
HH
New York City, New York• Film Feature
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Trapped in a strange facility, prisoners must solve puzzles and learn to trust each other while dealing with the virtual warden, a talking c
This project got the green light!
A Forgotten Place
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, War
An Igbo boy, living underground during the Biafran War, makes an unlikely friendship with a Yoruba soldier and they go in search of family.
This project got the green light!
Cross
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama, Film-Noir
A young Filipino backyard boxer enters a Mexican fight ring in the San Fernando Valley.
This project got the green light!
Dead Saturday
Huntsville, Alabama• Film Short
Drama, Thriller
A misled band of youths believes they found a religious loophole for releasing their inner demons.
This project got the green light!
Rez
New York, United States• Film Short
Drama
An Ojibwe boy searches for a safe place for he and his young sister on the Leech Lake reservation.
This project got the green light!
Movement + Location
Brooklyn, New York• Film Feature
Sci-Fi
A woman in Brooklyn learns the hard way that you can't always leave the past behind you.
This project got the green light!
