Shaun O'Banion
Producer/Writer/Consultant at Ravenwood Films
Producer, Screenwriter and Script Consultant
Praha, Czech Republic
July 2012
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About Shaun
Shaun O’Banion was drawn to the film business from an early age and got his first film industry job as a set P.A. on the Steven Spielberg series “SeaQuest DSV” during the series’ first season after sneaking onto the Universal lot for three months and asking for jobs.
From there, he segued to features (again after sneaking onto a set - this time a James Cameron production) and began to work his way up – first as a Production Assistant, Assistant Director and later, as an assistant to actors such as Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken, Ben Stiller, Courteney Cox and David Arquette and acclaimed filmmakers Joe Wright, Judd Apatow, and Academy Award Nominee Peter Hedges.
His first film as a producer was released in 2008 by E1 Entertainment. That film, DAKOTA SKYE, remained in the Top 100 on Netflix for 5 years and has become a cult hit among teens, a regular topic on social networking sites and aired on Showtime, The Movie Channel, ComCast, Time Warner Cable and Hulu.
His second film, GIRLFRIEND, stars Shannon Woodward (HBO's Westworld, Fox TV’s Raising Hope), Jackson Rathbone (THE TWILIGHT SAGA) and Golden Globe Nominee Amanda Plummer (THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, PULP FICTION) along with newcomer Evan Sneider. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010 and was one of 13 films to sell to a distributor in the first week of the Festival. In 2011, Shaun and his fellow producers won an IFP Gotham Award for the film as well as a host of other awards both in the U.S. and internationally.
His most recent film, THE AUTOMATIC HATE, stars Joseph Cross (LICORICE PIZZA, MILK), Adelaide Clemens (HULU's Under The Banner of Heaven, GATSBY), Richard Schiff (Emmy Award-winner, The West Wing, HBO's Ballers), Deborah Ann Woll (Netlfix's Daredevil, HBO's True Blood) and the late Ricky Jay (HEIST, BOOGIE NIGHTS). The film made its World Premiere at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival before heading to the Seattle International Film Festival, Busan International, Mill Valley (where it won the Jury Award) and others. It was released in N. America by Film Movement in 2016.
A member of the Producers Guild of America, O'Banion has produced national commercials for clients such as EA Sports, The Pepsi Co., HIVE Lighting, and Chevrolet. He has produced two episodes of Day Off with Noah Abrams (featuring celebrity chef Tyler Florence and Skate legend Tony Hawk) for the Planes, Trains & Automobiles Network on the web and Delta Airlines with 200 million unique views a year. He also produced a live event in Los Angeles for The White House, Office of the First Lady (Michelle Obama) alongside J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Academy Award-winner Bruce Cohen.
In addition to the above, Shaun is also a screenwriter and script consultant as well as an accomplished public speaker and teacher, having taught filmmaking courses at the Prague Film School, The Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco, California, SUNY Oneonta, New York, Metro-Arts High School in Phoenix, Arizona, and South Bay Adult School in Los Angeles, California. He has served on panels at the Firstglance Film Festival, Hollywood and as both panelist and moderator at Hell's Half Mile FIlm and Music Festival in Bay City, Michigan. In 2014, he was invited to join a panel of distinguished independent filmmakers at The SAG-AFTRA Foundation in Los Angeles.
As a screenwriter he is repped by Sarah Arnott at Zero Gravity Management.
With a number of projects in various stages solely under the Ravenwood Films banner and others he'll produce with partners like Broad Reach Films, as well as a new podcast (CHARACTER) which debuted in the fall of 2021, he expects the next few years to be extremely busy.
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Credits
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THE AUTOMATIC HATE (
2015 )
Film by BN Films/Film Movement (Drama) Co-Producer When Davis Green's alluring young cousin Alexis shows up on his doorstep, he discovers a side of his family that had been kept secret his entire life. As the two get closer, they set out to uncover the shocking secret that tore their families apart. (IMDb) -
GIRLFRIEND (
2012 )
Film by Wayne/Lauren Film Co./Strand Releasing (Drama) Producer A young man with Down syndrome romantically pursues a small-town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend. (IMDb) -
Dakota Skye (
2008 )
Film by Desert Skye Entertainment/E1 Entertainment (Comedy, Drama and Sci-Fi) Producer Dakota Skye (Eileen April Boylan, South of Nowhere) has a super power. For as long as she can remember, she has been cursed with the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. Now seventeen, Dakota has become apathetic towards life - until her boyfriend's best friend Jonah (Ian Nelson) arrives and catches her eye... An award-winning film festival favorite that mixes JUNO with a touch of Heroes. (D-Man2010 - IMDb)
Awards
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Audience Award - IFP Gotham Independent Film Awards ("Girlfriend")
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Jury Prize - Best Narrative Feature, Woods Hole FIlm Festival ("Girlfriend")
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Audience Award, "Best of the Fest", 2011 Woods Hole Film Festival ("Girlfriend")
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Grand Jury Prize, 2011 White Sands International Film Festival ("Girlfriend")
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Best Director, 2011 White Sands International Film Festival ("Girlfriend)
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Audience Award, "Best U.S. Feature Film", 2011 Mill Valley Film Festival ("Girlfriend")
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Fabulous Feature Award, Hell's Half Mile Film and Music Festival ("Girlfriend")
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Best Film, Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival ("Dakota Skye")
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Best Film, Charlotte International Film Festival ("Dakota Skye")
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Jury Prize, Best Film, FirstGlance Film Festival, Hollywood ("Dakota Skye")
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Audience Choice Award, FirstGlance Film Festival, Hollywood ("Dakota Skye")
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Best Ensemble - FirstGlance FIlm Festival, Hollywood ("Dakota Skye")
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Best Screenplay, Phoenix International Film Festival ("Dakota Skye")
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Breakthrough Performance, Eileen Boylan, Edmonton International Film Festival ("Dakota Skye")
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Best Actor, Ian Nelson, Playhouse West Film Festival ("Dakota Skye")
(2007)
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