Shawn Dawes

Born and raised in the Rose City - Portland, OR.
Studied film and video production at Full Sail ('01) and The Los Angeles Film School ('05)
As a student, I helmed a short film entitled "La Fille Française", in which I wrote, directed and produced.
The film was selected into two of the top 15 U.S. film festivals, The Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival ('06) and
The Los Angeles Int'l Shorts Film Festival ('06). It also received an official selection into the Int'l Festival of Cinema and Technology ('07), which toured to various major cities around the globe.

Favorite Books
"The Invisible Man" by H.G. Wells,
"Autumn" by David Moody,
"The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

Favorite Quotes
"The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed."
(George Bernard Shaw)
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
(George Bernard Shaw)

Interests and Activities
Nothing beats the excitement you get when you begin researching your script / film for the very first time.

Favorite TV Shows
"Reaper"
"Supernatural"
"Eli Stone"
"Torchwood"
"Jericho"
"The Unit"

Favorite Movies
I'm a culturalist as well as a classicial loving man. I love foreign films, especially ones from the French New Wave era;
"A Woman is a Woman", "Day for Night", "Bay of Angels", etc.
I grew up watching the Marx Bros, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Bogart, and so on.
To give you specifics, I'd really have to break it down to the individual genres, and that
would take quite a while.