Shane Christian Eason
About
Interim Director, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
Associate Professor
BFA, Film, University of Regina
MFA, Studio Art, Cinema, Concordia University
Email: eason@fau.edu
Phone
: (561) 297-0044
Offices: CU-204 (Boca) • HE-1008K (FTL).
Areas of Expertise: Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Expanded Cinema
Shane Eason is a Canadian-born film & video artist, curator, photographer, and educator living in the US. His formal experimental and documentary films are conscience studies in the discourse of abstraction, memory, and identity. His film works have been screened and exhibited internationally amongst film festivals and art galleries. His latest award winning film project "PAPA" is a feature documentary that chronicles the Ernest "Papa" Hemingway Look-alike Contest annually held in Key West, FL. He is currently the Multimedia Production Coordinator and an Assistant Professor teaching film production with the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University.
Projects in Development
Rockets Red Glare (Long-form Experimental Film)
Sin Bin (Experimental Video Wall)
Works of the Flesh: Fourth Study (Experimental Film and Light-box Series)
Recent Exhibition and Conference Presentations
One Roll Challenge (Los Angeles, CA)
FAU Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition (Boca Raton, FL)
1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
AFC Global Film Festival (Kolkata, India)
Cardiff International Film Festival (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
3rd Annual Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival (Tampa, FL)
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film FestivalPune (Maharashtra, India)
5th Annual Key West Film Festival (Key West, FL)
5th Annual YES Film Festival (Columbus, IN)
5th Annual Madrid International Film Festival (Madrid, Spain)
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Filmed in Broward Series: Take 2 (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
XVIIth Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Conference (Chicago, IL)
4th Annual Jerome Indie Film & Music Festival (Jerome, AZ)
21st Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival (West Palm Beach, FL)
6th Annual Fort Myers Film Festival (Fort Myers, FL)
Recent Film Nominations and Awards
Nomination for Best Feature Documentary - The Digital Ticket (Los Angeles, CA)
Nomination for Best Documentary - 3rd Annual Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival (Tampa, FL)
Nomination for Best Feature Documentary - 5th Annual YES Film Festival (Columbus, IN)
Nomination & Winner for Best Story & Best Editing of a Documentary - 5th Annual Madrid International Film Festival (Madrid, Spain)
Nomination for Best Feature Documentary - 21st Annual Palm Beach International Film Festival (West Palm Beach, FL)
Recent Completed Projects
He Sees Dead People (Experimental Super 8 Short)
Mangroves (Experimental Super 8/Digital Short)
PAPA (Feature Documentary)
The ‘Cos (Experimental Super 8 Short)
Ascend + Descend (Experimental Digital Short)
KFLL | Squawk | 0.9HZ (Experimental Super 8/Digital Short)
Upcoming Exhibition and Conference Presentations
XVIII Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Conference (Paris, France)
Current Distribution and Publication (PAPA)
The Digital Ticket (Los Angeles, CA)
PAPA
1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée
Flamingo Film Festival
Recent Press
Focal Point, Degrees Magazine (Vol. 29, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2017)
An excellent film when you don’t want anything taxing and just want to smile, INFLUX Magazine
A Cute Little Slice of Life, IMDb
Filmed in Broward Opening Night, Broward Arts
PAPA, FILM - The Magazine (Issue 007; p. 24-26, 64)
In Documentary “PAPA” Hemingway Look-Alike Stress the Importance of Being Ernest, Sun-Sentinel
Filmed in Broward: Take 2, Miramar-Pembroke Pines City News (p. 22)
That’s a Local Wrap, New Times
The Key West Shuffle, TheHemingwayProject.com
Recent Curatorial and Programming
American Youth Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Flamingo Film Festival (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Camera Chronological: Experimental Super 8 Shorts w/ guest filmmaker Melisa Aller (Argentina)
Key West Film Festival (Key West, FL)
Past Curatorial and Programming
Films for 1 to 8 Projectors w/ guest filmmaker Roger Beebe (USA)
Reel 7 microCINEMA
NUDIBRANCH microCINEMA
From the Gutter: California Punk Films, 1978-1986
Box Car Jockey w/ guest filmmaker Bill Daniel (USA)
Courses
DIG 3253C: Digital Audio Rec and Editing
RTV 3260: Video Production
RTV 3229: Experimental Video Production *
RTV 3339 Documentary Video Production *
FIL 4613 Exhibition Practices in Film, Video & New Media *
* cross-lists as Graduate elective
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