Shannon Smith

Screenwriter, Dialogue Editor, Assistant Director, Script Consultant, Art Director, Prop Master, Set Decorator, Director of Photography, Gaffer/lighting Technician, Key Grip and Producer

Denver, Colorado

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August 2014

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About Shannon

Shannon is a freelance writer, filmmaker, and a single mom. She's been working in the film Industry fo 20+ years and as a professional script doctor and ghostwriter for 15+ years.
Shannon has a degree in Technical Film and Video with an emphasis on Writing and Directing. She is also a published poet and author. Shannon owns Girls To The Front! Productions and is currently working on financing her 21/22 and 23/24 slates.

Gender:
Female

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Photos

Still from the short Earthrise a wrote and co-directed. It started as a project for the Cinespace competition through NASA and will be streaming on Cinestream soon.

We got this shot on a green screen we set up in my reading nook after we lost our soundstage and had to build the set in my garage.

Still from the short I wrote/directed Welcome To The Resistance: Breathe

pictured:
Christina Rose as Ava Abidi-Khan
Amirah Lee Counts as Camellia Abidi-Khan

BTS shot from the set of Earthrise.

Pictured: DP Noah Mittman and myself

Still from the proof of concept shoot for The Salinian adaptation.

pictured:
Mia McGlinn as Frankie
Alexandria Michelle as Spencer

Videos

BLACK FRIDAY MOVIE - OFFICIAL TEASER [HD]

Loglines

The Curse of the House of Savage Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror Four friends get more than they bargained for when a freak storm drives them into the House of Savage. Monsters, dangerous artifacts, and more threaten to make this night their last.
CC: Budget: $1M - $5M | Action CiCi is a clone created by Mile High Technology. Her mission is to bring them down. Adapted from the comic book CiCi by Parker Smart.
Working Title: Femme Force Budget: $5M - $10M | Action It's hard to be a working mom. Between bake sales and soccer practice Yana leads a Black Ops team tasked with saving the world, again.(Note: Script passes the Bechdel test, Mako Mori test, Sphinx test, Vito test, also passes Eric Deggans and Nikesh Shukla's tests. It will qualify for Diversity in casting through SAG/AFTRA.)

Credits

Thunder Lord (2018)
Film (Action, Fantasy and Sci-Fi) Costume designer Dick Cockney finds himself without a home or a cause after his world is destroyed by treachery. Now finding himself the last of the THUNDER LORDS - the universe's finest warriors, he must alone slay his way to the ones responsible and claim his vengeance. Along the way however, he may just find that vengeance is not all that is left to him. Written by Goins, Nick
Le Teen Nikita (2017)
Film (Short and Comedy) Writer It's hard enough as a teenage girl to prepare for a date but when she also has to protect her step dad from an onslaught of Russian assassins without him finding out that she and her mother are international spies at the same time...well Whatever. Written by Tom Davis
Eathrise (2016)
Film (Short, Horror and Sci-Fi) Writer The discovery of an unknown extraterrestrial substance on the International Space Station threatens to change the future of humanity.
Survival Instinct (2015)
Film (Short and Adventure) Writer Lara and Cam are on a mission with an Artifact that can't fall into enemy hands. But then Lara wakes up, bloody and bruised with no idea what happened between being forced into a firefight and finding herself with wounds that will prove fatal if she doesn't find help soon. What happened to the Artifact, to Cam..and will she find a way out in time?
Iris (2015)
Film (Short, Crime, Drama, Fantasy and 3 More) Art department A man uses his smart phone to assist in burying a dead body.
An American Terror (2014)
Film (Drama and Horror) Art department A group of friends hatch a plan to get revenge on the bullies who have been tormenting them. In doing so, they stumble upon an underground torture chamber filled with unspeakable horrors. Trapped by a madman, they are used to fulfill his demented, bloody fantasies one at a time. Their only hope for survival is to fight back and find a way to escape the killer's bloody grip. Written by DrAzIc ThE wItCh
Sisters (2014)
Film (short) by Bryan Patrick Visions Script Doctor, co-producer, Art Director Sisters from Bryan Patrick Visions explores the twisted relationship of two sisters.
The Honey Cooler (2012)
Film (Comedy, Drama and Music) Camera and Electrical Department Down and out private detective Sid Pink takes on a kidnapping case which leads him into the seedy underground world of burlesque dancers, furries and Luche Libre wrestlers.
Beautiful Scar (2012)
Film (Short and Romance) Camera and Electrical Department Add a Plot »
Free: I'm Strong Here (2012)
Film (Short, Drama and Family) Camera and Electrical Department A young woman - trapped by a sudden, life-altering handicap- overcomes her own prejudice when she meets a mentally-challenged young man who shows her the difference between existing and being free.