Director

Shawn Christensen

Writing

Career Snapshot

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Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.6

Low visibility

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 234817

IMDb ID: nm0159900

Known for: Writing

Place of birth: United States

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2011 - 2026

Years active: 16

Average TMDB rating: 6.59

Wikidata: Q11903371

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Writer (4)Executive Producer (2)Producer (2)

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Biography

Shawn is an Academy Award-winning writer/director whose films have premiered at Sundance, SXSW and TIFF. He is the founder of Fuzzy Logic Pictures, the CEO of Criminal Content, and Executive Producer on the TV Series AMERICAN HOSTAGE (Amazon MGM+). He’s directed numerous award-winning Podcasts including BLACKOUT (Rami Malek), THE FOXES OF HYDESVILLE (Carey Mulligan), AMERICAN HOSTAGE (Jon Hamm), and HUNTED (Parker Posey). He was formerly the frontman of rock band Stellastarr*. In 2013, he won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for CURFEW, and the SXSW Audience Award for its feature-length adaptation BEFORE I DISAPPEAR (Emmy Rossum, Fatima Ptacek, Ron Perlman).