Shawn Christensen is an American musician, filmmaker, podcaster and artist.
20 Facts About Shawn Christensen
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Shawn Christensen is a graduate of Pratt Institute, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration and graphic design.
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Shawn Christensen was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.
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Shawn Christensen's father was an engineer and his mother was a librarian, with him being their only child.
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Shawn Christensen enrolled at Pratt Institute, where he pursued a degree in graphic design and illustration.
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Shawn Christensen was the lead vocalist and lead guitar in a college band called Ghistor, composed of himself, bassist Amanda Tannen and drummer Arthur Kremer.
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Shawn Christensen produced and sold abstract-realistic paintings generally themed around prominent rock music figures.
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Shawn Christensen was complimnented for his range being able to deliver deep bellows and high falsettos.
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Shawn Christensen independently penned an Alfred Hitchcock-inspired thriller, Abduction, and a science-fiction drama, The Karma Coalition.
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Disillusioned from studios retrofitting his screenplays, Shawn Christensen rebooted his filmmaking career, to focus on directing.
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Shawn Christensen wrote a screenplay in 2011 for a short film for him to direct and co-star in called Curfew.
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Two days prior to shooting a dance scene, negotiations with the artists behind the accompanying song failed, leading to the filming of cast members dancing to the original song, while Shawn Christensen composed a single, "Sophia So Far", to replace it.
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For two weeks, editor Evan Henke edited Curfew, before Shawn Christensen took over and edited the film on his MacBook Pro in his living room for the rest of 2011.
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Curfew premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in January 2012, to critical acclaim, numerous festival screenings and awards for Shawn Christensen's acting, directing and writing.
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Shawn Christensen opted to independently produce it through Jonathan Schwartz's Super Crispy Entertainment banner, as well as his own Fuzzy Logic Pictures banner.
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Shawn Christensen expanded his direction efforts to fiction podcasts with Blackout, the first series produced by QCode that was released in March 2019, starring Rami Malek.
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The first season directed by Shawn Christensen was popular, having been downloaded over twelve million times by the time its second season was ordered.
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Shawn Christensen directed the narrative thriller Hunted, the first podcast produced by Wolf Entertainment's Endeavor Audio division, starring Parker Posey, released in November 2019.
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Alongside Gabriel Mason, Shawn Christensen founded an entertainment label called Criminal Content in 2020.
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Shawn Christensen directed, executive produced and acted in the company's debut podcast, American Hostage, an eight-part dramatization of the 1977 Indianapolis hostage crisis perpetrated by Tony Kiritsis.