As the Executive Director of the MVPA, the premiere trade association for the music video industry, Shana Sosin-Betz oversaw the establishment of union contracts as well as Executive Produced the annual MVPA Awards where she worked with the top creative minds in the industry. After leaving the MVPA, Sosin-Betz produced many short format projects, including The Stranger, which won the Eastman Kodak New Filmmaker Award. She also honed her acting and comedic voice while performing with Tim Robbins’ world renowned ensemble, The Actors’ Gang, in Los Angeles where she toured the country as the only female in George Orwell’s 1984. In 2009/10, Sosin-Betz partnered with Robbins to program and produce the WTF?! Festival and Axis Mundi Series — over 40 music, literature and film events with Tenacious D, Gore Vidal, Sarah Silverman, Jackson Browne, Jenny Lewis, Paul Provenza, Ben Gibbard, John Doe and many more.

In 2010, she received a grant to write and direct a film for the Girls! Girls! Girls! Project, an anthology of shorts about women, by women. She then completed the 2011 Film Independent Directors Lab Fellowship with the script, Free Ride based on her life story before filming the feature starring Anna Paquin, Drea De Matteo and Cam Gigandet. In 2012, she recently finished filming her second feature The Void starring Richard Roundtree.