Talent Guide

Sean Shodahl

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2006

Bio

In the independent film industry for seven years, Sean Shodahl programmed the annual Filmmaker Conference 2006 at the IFP Market in New York and co-managed the premier year of Tribeca All Access for the Tribeca Film Institute, an annual meeting-based program designed to develop and fund narrative and documentary projects by filmmakers of color. Shodahl has programmed and managed The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival for 3 years, and works as an associate programmer for The Hawaii International Film Festival. He was an assistant producer on various short films and has developed scripts for independent film projects.

At Marakesh Films, Shodahl worked as an associate producer on award-winning films The Color of Love and The Day I Died by Maryam Keshavarz. Currently, he is working with Marakesh Films to produce the feature film Circumstance directed by Keshavarz.

Current Project

CIRCUMSTANCE (NARRATIVE FEATURE)

Logline

The story of how a single event, a soldier's death at the Iran-Iraq border, irrevocably connects the lives of four people across continents: a young girl struggling to survive in New York as her father faces deportation, an Iranian teenager pushed to the fringes of society, a wandering Kurdish refugee, and a native American war correspondent.