Next of Kin

Shane was born in Dublin Ireland and graduated with a joint honours degree in economics and business studies from Trinity College, Dublin. After working for several years in Germany Shane returned home to study acting, enrolling in the Gaiety School of Acting, and has been involved as a writer/director in the industry for a number of years.

Shane has just completed a commissioned rewrite on a $20 million feature, Standing Bear, the true story of Ponca Indian Chief, Standing Bear.

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Shane was born in Dublin Ireland and graduated with a joint honours degree in economics and business studies from Trinity College, Dublin. After working for several years in Germany Shane returned home to study acting, enrolling in the Gaiety School of Acting, and has been involved as a writer/director in the industry for a number of years.

Shane has just completed a commissioned rewrite on a $20 million feature, Standing Bear, the true story of Ponca Indian Chief, Standing Bear. The movie will go into production in 2012.

His feature script, Probable Cause, a whodunit thriller set off the Florida Keys was placed third at the 24th Annual Write Movies International Writing Competition 2010, and was a Top Six Finalist in two categories at the 2010 Austin Film Festival, and is a finalist at the Screenwriting Expo 2011 and the Creative World Awards 2011.

Another of Shanes feature screenplays, The Base, a dark psychological thriller, won Fernlief Productions inaugural Back in the Box Screenwriting Competition 2009. The film is currently being developed by Fernlief Productions and is scheduled to go into production in 2012 with Shane attached to direct.

Shanes Latin-themed feature, Next of Kin, received the LSC Honourable Mention Award at the 3rd Annual Latino Screenplay Competition 2008 and is currently being considered by Estevez Sheen Productions having attracted the attention of top Colombian actress Sofia Vergara and actor/producer Martin Sheen. Working on the Joel Schumacher film "Veronica Guerin" inspired Shane to go on to write and direct and he has to date written a number of features and shorts. Lucky Escape, which Shane wrote, produced and directed, was shot on location, using an all-Irish Cast and Crew in Dublin, Ireland but set in an upmarket New York City restaurant sets out to capture the universal theme and wise old adage that we should always be careful what we wish for.

The film has screened at numerous festivals worldwide, including Academy Award® accredited festivals, Rhode Island, La Shorts Fest, Palm Springs, Cleveland and was picked up for distribution by Premium Films in France who sold it into all of Latin America and the Caribbean via the Latin American Discovery Channel. Shane has since signed a worldwide distribution deal with Network Ireland Television, who have sold it to NBC Universal, (Italy), HBO, (Central and Eastern Europe), top comedy website Atom.com, UK Broadcaster Channel 4, and recently to NBC Pan Asia. Network Ireland Television is currently in talk with Irish carrier Aer Lingus to screen Lucky Escape on all their North American Flights.

Shane is developing his next feature, Kopkiller, - a supernatural thriller set in Dublin about a rookie narcotics detective who is given the unusual opportunity of investigating her own murder.

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