Karl Shefelman
Director, Screenwriter and Storyboard Artist
New York City, New York
July 2013
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About Karl
Karl recently completed his debut feature film, "Looking for the Jackalope"- a cautionary tale about nostalgia. The film won the JURY AWARD for BEST COMEDY FEATURE AND the AUDIENCE AWARD for BEST U.S. FEATURE at the 2017 Austin Revolution Film Festival. Distributed by Indie Rights Distribution Company it is now available on Amazon Prime.
Karl wrote a screenplay for a larger feature film project, "The Hunters". Based on a true story, it is a coming-of-age adventure about some American and French embassy kids who must fight to survive after getting stranded in the West African desert on a camping trip gone awry. The script was a SEMIFINALIST in the 2015 Nicholl Fellowships Screenplay Competition and one of the TOP 50 SCRIPTS out of 7500 entered. It also won the BRONZE AWARD in the 2018 New York International Screenplay Awards competition.
Karl’s short film, “Bill’s Seat”, won Best Short Film at the St. Louis Int’l Film Festival, 2003, and was an official selection at numerous other festivals. His original half-hour period drama, “Elysian Fields”, also won numerous festival awards, including a Mobil Award at the First-run Film Festival, NYU, and a Gold Prize at the World Festival/Houston. Distributed by Tapestry International, it was sold to the BBC-2.
In addition, Karl has worked for years as a storyboard artist for numerous A-list directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, and the late Jonathan Demme.
Karl was born and raised in Austin, Texas before moving to New York.
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LOOKING FOR THE JACKALOPE Adventure ⋄ Comedy ⋄ Drama ⋄ Fantasy ⋄ Independent ⋄ Romance A washed up New York novelist, obsessed with a romantic adventure in his past, takes a comically Ill-fated journey to his 20TH college reunion in an attempt to relive his youth and reunite with his old girlfriend.
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THE HUNTERS Action ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Drama ⋄ Independent The Hunters is a coming-of-age, cross-cultural adventure told through the eyes of Will Grady, a trouble-making 11-year-old Texas boy who must fight to save himself and his friends when a group camping trip in the West African desert goes terribly wrong.
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Power (
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Memory Box (
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The Good Cop (
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American Assassin (
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Rebel in the Rye (
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Looking for the Jackalope (
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Non-Stop (
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All Good Things (
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? (
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (
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Evening (
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend (
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Hide and Seek (
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The Forgotten (
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Bill's Seat (
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Don't Say a Word (
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What's the Worst That Could Happen? (
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It All Came True (
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Return to Paradise (
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The Peacemaker (
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Addicted to Love (
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Sleepers (
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Money Train (
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Elysian Fields (
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The Silence of the Lambs (
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Suffering Bastards (
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The Street (
1988 )
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