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Shane served in the Royal Navy for 8 years, qualifying as a Radar Operator, Navigator's Yeoman and Ship's Diver. He was deployed to the first Gulf War, quickly followed by the conflict in Yugoslavia, and then 6 months in the Falkland Islands. Shane then served 18 months in a nuclear bunker in North London, then 2 years on an oceanographic survey vessel, during which time he also participated in a tri-service expedition to Nepal and the Himalayas.
Shane was 24 years old when he left the Royal Navy. His first script had been short-listed by the Lloyds Bank/Channel 4 Film Competition. He then attended an A-Level in Film Studies at Salisbury College before taking the BA (Hons) Film & Animation Production course at The Arts Institute in Bournemouth, specialising as a director. His graduation film, an adaptation of Milan Kundera's The Hitchhiking Game, was selected for international distribution by The British Council and it toured festivals around the world.
After graduating from Bournemouth Shane moved to London and was joint MD of an award-winning boutique production company. He began shooting music videos and, to date, work he has directed has achieved over 60,000,000 hits on YouTube, with 5 straight Number 1's in the rock chart and a nomination for the Offcuts Experimental Music Video Award.
Shane's short films have been nominated for Depict, Nokia shorts and screened at festivals such as Rushes, Raindance and Cannes. Shane also shot an ambitious short in a single-take; I've Been Single Too Long was selected by The UK Film Council's 'Single Shot' scheme and toured the country. Shane also explored theatre directing with a run at The Windsor Fringe.
Shane's self-financed micro-feature, The Horror of The Dolls, which was created for, and won, the '28 Day Feature Film Challenge'. To make The Dolls Shane called in a cast and crew of trusted collaborators to make the 81 minute film, from conception to delivery, within the contest's 28 day period. The script/structure was 45 bullet-pointed scenes estimated at 2 minutes each, Shane work-shopped characters with the cast, and the dialogue scenes were improvised during rehearsals and on camera. Shane used the film to tackle the themes that his other work had touched upon, principally the relationship between freedom and violence.
The reviews for The Horror of The Dolls called it an esoteric horror and impressionistic cinema. It picked up a cult audience that followed it from underground screening to underground screening and it was mentioned in Kim Newman's Horror book. The film is available on Amazon US.
Shane recently directed a test scene for his feature project The Albion Falls; it is an exciting sci-fi thriller (the first draft was short-listed for Film London's Microwave scheme). The test film premiered at The Australian Sci-Fi Film Festival and has since been shown at IndieFlicks in the UK, Comicon in Kentucky, Scream In The Dark in Texas, Fancine in Malaga and the Blackbird film festival in New York.
