Shawn Christensen
| Shawn Christensen | |
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| Born | Poughkeepsie, New York, United States |
| Alma mater | Pratt Institute |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, film director, singer-songwriter, actor, painter |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Notable work | Abduction, Enter Nowhere, Curfew, Before I Disappear, Sidney Hall |
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| Labels | RCA Records |
| Associated acts | Stellastarr |
Shawn Christensen is an American screenwriter, film director, singer-songwriter, actor and painter. After graduating from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration and graphic design in 2000, he began his career as an illustrator, commissioning depictions of rock musicians. Christensen also focused on his musical career, as the frontman of the band Stellastarr, which became his full-time profession by 2003, when they signed with RCA Records. Throughout Christensen's nine-year tenure with Stellastarr, the band released three albums, including Stellastarr (2003), Harmonies for the Haunted (2005) and Civilized (2009). Following the release of the third album, the band went on unofficial, indefinite hiatus.
Concurrent with the middle stages of his musical career, Christensen focused on screenwriting. His first adapted screenplay was Abduction (2011), an action-thriller film about a young man who uncovers a conspiracy surrounding his own lineage. Given a wide release by Lionsgate Films, Abduction opened to highly critical reviews. Released shortly after was Enter Nowhere (2011), a psychological thriller film Christensen co-wrote about a group of individuals brought together at a cabin in the woods, where they find themselves stranded.
Following the disappointing productions based around his screenplays, Christensen rebooted his career as a filmmaker by writing, directing and starring in the short film Curfew (2012), a drama about a suicidal uncle who watches over his precocious niece for an evening. At the 85th Academy Awards, Curfew won Best Live Action Short Film. In 2014, Christensen released Before I Disappear, his feature length directorial debut based on Curfew. His second feature, a drama film about the three stages of the life of a young novelist called Sidney Hall, was released at 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
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