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A moment with the director...
SHANNAN KEENAN
LOAVES marks Shannan's feature film
debut. Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas,
Shannan had predicted her future at an early age when
she announced that one day she was going to run off to
Hollywood and make movies. Albeit quite a shocking statement for such a young lassie in the middle of
the Bible Belt, no one thought too strongly about
it. After all, she was going to be a veterinarian and the quarterback of the Denver Broncos as well.
Soon after discovering that science
was...well...hard, and
her high school football team wouldn't let her play because she might hurt her reproductive organs, Shannan decided it was time to pursue that first dream for
real and head west. Although,
west to the father of an only child meant no more than 600 miles from home. So, Shannan found herself attending Colorado State University, studying
television production and theatre. Four and a
half years later, with a degree under her belt, and
an understandable fear of skiing, Shannan loaded up
her VW Bug and inched her way to fame and glory... or at least a job.
Upon arriving to L.A., she landed a job in development for an animation
studio. After climbing the corporate ladder
from assistant to the illustrious position of
"Creative Affairs Coordinator," Shannan finally found the light...or it found
her. She was laid off. Suddenly finding that time she had been whining about that she didn't have before to write,
Shannan and her computer had a much-needed date.
Realizing that her Kansas upbringing surely had to pay off somehow, and that
small town folk and murder do mix well, LOAVES was born.
Not having much patience for the Hollywood game,
Shannan, with an unemployment check in hand and credit cards burning in
the pocket, went off to independently finance, direct, and produce her first film.
Surviving the tortures of guerrilla filmmaking, Shannan
was pleased to disprove some of those nasty
filmmaking myths: you have to go to film school to make a film; there's no way in hell anyone can make a feature film for under $35,000; and
all
girl directors cry on the set.
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