Humpday

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Director

Lynn Shelton

Bio

LYNN SHELTON (Director) After several years of acting for the stage in Seattle and New York, Lynn Shelton attended the MFA program for Photography at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She then spent a decade as an experimental and documentary filmmaker (THE CLOUDS THAT TOUCH US OUT OF CLEAR SKIES, THE FRUITS OF OUR LABORS) and as an editor (OUTPATIENT, HEDDA GABLER, MEASURE) before writing and directing her first feature-length film. The result, WE GO WAY BACK, premiered at Slamdance 2006 where it picked up the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography. Shelton’s second feature film, MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE, premiered in competition at SXSW 2008 and won Shelton a nomination for the 2009 Independent Spirit “Someone to Watch” Award. HUMPDAY is Shelton’s third feature.

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.