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Lynn Shelton was born on 27 August, 1965 in Oberlin, Ohio, U.S., is an American filmmaker (1965–2020). Discover Lynn Shelton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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Occupation Film director · screenwriter · producer
Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 27 August 1965
Birthday 27 August
Birthplace Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death 15 May, 2020
Died Place Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Lynn Shelton Net Worth

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1965

Lynn Shelton (August 27, 1965 – May 15, 2020) was an American filmmaker, known for writing, directing, and producing such films as Humpday and Your Sister's Sister.

She was associated with the mumblecore genre.

Shelton was born in Oberlin, Ohio, and raised in Seattle, Washington.

She described herself as having been audacious as a young girl, but having lost confidence in her creativity in adolescence.

2003

When she saw French director Claire Denis speak at Seattle's Northwest Film Forum in 2003, Denis revealed she was 40 when she directed her first feature film, and that revelation made Shelton realize that she still had plenty of time.

2004

In 2004, Shelton began writing and directing her first feature film, We Go Way Back.

Described as "polished" and "impressionistic", the film depicts a 23-year-old actress, Kate, confronted by her 13-year-old self.

The dialog between the older and younger Kates begins in memory, and then climaxes in an apparitional experience with the specter of her own, repressed, precocious youth.

2005

This experience contributed to a theme she explored in her 2005 film We Go Way Back.

Shelton attended Garfield High School.

After high school, Shelton attended Oberlin College in Ohio and then the University of Washington School of Drama.

She then moved to New York and followed the Master's of Fine Arts program in photography and related media at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Her thesis advisor was Peggy Ahwesh.

She began working in the film industry as a film editor and made a series of experimental short films which have been described as "accomplished" and providing the basis for the "subtle, almost anthropological scrutiny" brought to bear in her later works.

Among the jobs she held to support her film career was working aboard a fishing trawler in the Bering Sea.

Shelton had wanted to be a director, but was worried that being in her mid-30s, it was too late to begin.

2006

We Go Way Back premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006.

2008

In 2008, Shelton's dark comedy My Effortless Brilliance played at South by Southwest and Maryland Film Festival.

Her film Humpday premiered at Sundance, was acquired by Magnolia Pictures, and has been shown at Cannes, SIFF, South by Southwest and other film festivals.

2009

It opened in theaters in New York and Seattle on July 10, 2009.

Shelton has directed episodes for TV shows since 2009 including The Good Place, GLOW, New Girl, Mad Men, Casual and, in 2020, the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere, starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon.

Shelton described her approach to comedy as doing the opposite: When we were on set, it was really essential that none of us—not the actors or myself either—think that we're in "a comedy", because that's when I find (especially with improvisation) you start reaching for jokes.

You start sort of "soft-shoeing", and trying to entertain people, and I don't want that.

I want us to just always be playing to the truth of the scene and I really have no idea how many laughs there are going to be.

We're playing it so straight that it's really hard to tell the forest for the trees.

A week prior to her death, Shelton revealed she was in the process of co-writing a dramatic film with Marc Maron.

Shelton cited directors Claire Denis, Woody Allen, and Ingmar Bergman as influences.

2011

Her film Your Sister's Sister premiered in 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The film starred Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Duplass.

2012

When asked about exploring the relationship between sisters in a 2012 interview with FF2 Media's Jan Lisa Huttner, Shelton said:"Everybody has had that experience of going home for Thanksgiving and starting to act ten years old again because they're in the same situation with their parents and their siblings. So you get back into this rut again of who you were when you were first becoming a grownup. It's not until you get out that you can break out of those bonds, but we still get trapped by them when we return."Touchy Feely premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013, where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

It starred Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, and Elliot Page.

Laggies was the first film Shelton directed that she had not also written.

2014

The film starred Keira Knightley and Chloë Grace Moretz, and premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by A24 Films.

2015

In 2015, Shelton was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Director's Branch.

2017

In 2017, her film Outside In premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.

It starred Jay Duplass, Edie Falco, Kaitlyn Dever, and Ben Schwartz.

2019

Her 2019 comedy Sword of Trust had its world premiere at South by Southwest.

In it, Cynthia (Jillian Bell) inherits a sword from her deceased grandfather, which he believed proves the South won the Civil War.

2020

In a 2020 post made on her Instagram page, Shelton clipped a picture from the movie You Can Count on Me (2000), written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan.

The caption she wrote—"I don't know if I could ever make a film as perfect and incredible as this one, but boy oh boy would I like to try"—strongly suggests that the film (and perhaps Lonergan) had a profound influence on her decision to become a filmmaker.