13 Facts About Shane Carruth

Shane Carruth was born on 1972 and is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, composer, and actor.

Shane Carruth is the writer, director, and co-star of the prize-winning science-fiction film Primer, which was his debut feature.

Shane Carruth's second film, Upstream Color, was an experimental science-fiction film which he wrote, directed, produced, edited, designed, and starred in.

Shane Carruth attended Stephen F Austin State University as a mathematics major.

On January 21,2013, Shane Carruth premiered his film Upstream Color at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition category.

In 2014, Shane Carruth announced a new film, The Modern Ocean, based on international shipping and the lives of those involved.

On June 17,2020, Shane Carruth posted the entire script for The Modern Ocean on Twitter, along with some of the original score.

In 2019, in an interview Shane Carruth claimed he was working on "a massive thing" and would leave the film industry once that project concludes.

Shane Carruth was rumored to have consulted on time-travel sequences for filmmaker Rian Johnson's Looper, though it was later revealed that those sequences were deemed too expensive to shoot.

In 2018, Shane Carruth starred in the psychological thriller The Dead Center about a hospital psychiatrist whose own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side.

From 2011 to 2018, Shane Carruth was in a relationship with Amy Seimetz.

On January 13,2022, Shane Carruth was arrested at the home of another ex-girlfriend on allegations of domestic assault and vandalism.

Shane Carruth was released four days later on a $50,000 bond.