Michelle Shyman quadfocal productions
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Click to Enlarge	Personal Statement: I use multiple art forms (film, theater, fiction, sculpture, jewelry) to portray the lives and concerns of animals, the environment, women, minorities, the working class - those who are under-represented, under-served, and overlooked.

Current Work Exit Strategy, the film: The wolves paced and howled, sensing change. The refuge had been their only home. How much would you dare? What would you put at stake? How far would you go save the lives of those you love? What happens when a person of conscience enters a world of mega-greed? Exit Strategy is a film about one woman's brave, funny, and sad journey into the dotcom world to raise money to save her wolves. Exit Strategy is coming in 2007. Just Completed See Michelle in Apart From That (http://tinyurl.com/ckz58) at the South By Southwest Film Festival (http://tinyurl.com/bx6we) To see Michelle steal a purse , watch Police Beat (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383965/) on the Sundance Channel (http://tinyurl.com/cgtqc) Buy Daughters at Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/bu9sh)

Short Bio Michelle has been an actor since childhood, playing leading roles in touring children's theater. She has been seen in lead and principal roles on stages bi-coastally and in a number of films: Police Beat, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival; Apart From That, which premiered at South By Southwest; and Daughters, which premiered at Ann Arbor. She played in ABC's long-running Rescue 911 and on a Korean Broadcast Television mini-series, The Project, and in television commercials and industrial films. She recently has been writing her own multimedia performance art, stand-up comedy, and feature-length screenplays. Michelle's first screenplay, Service Dogs, was a second-round competitor in the American Gem Screenplay 2005 competition. Upcoming Service Dogs. Don’t stare, Honey. He has Social Awkwardness Disease. Julie Lewis Takes Off Her Clothes in The Circle. Don’t turn your back. Most Likely to Succeed. Gorgeous, brilliant, adventurous. How did she end up in this mess? Backward Sight. If a crazy person told you about a government cover-up, would you believe her? Detained. Could Diogenes find his honest man post 9-11? Crunch. A trail of bloody, cracked, bald skulls.

Honors 2nd round: American Gems Screenplay Competition

Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations Women in Film, Independent Feature Project, Indie Club, Women in Digital Journalism

Artist Location Seattle, WA

Type of artist Performer, Writer, Director, Painter/Sculptor, Other

General Themes Activism/Social Justice, Comedy/Humor/Satire, Economics/Class, Environment, International/Global

Keywords wildlife, wilderness, wolf, wolves, nature

Last updated on May 8th, 2007

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