"Being Anne: A Conversation of Transformation: - award-winning documentary - Writer / Direcotr
"Mirror Image" - award-winning suspense thriller - Writer / Director
"Undercover Kid" - Feature Film - Director (Warners video / HBO Family)
"Secret World of Alex Mack" - Nickelodeon - Episodic Director (2 episodes)
"Little Ghost" - Feature Film - Director - (Paramount video)
Best Film - Washington D.C. Intl. FF 2023
Best Directing - Freedom Film Festival Intl.
Best Thriller - Hollywood Reel Indep. Film Festival 2020
Finalist - Oaxaca FF 2020
Best Screenplay - London, New Renaissance FF
Top 10 Screenplays - Cinequest
Best Feature Script - Olympus Film Festival, LA
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Linda Shayne is feature film and TV director and writer. Shayne graduated with highest honors from the University of California at Berkeley. Shayne's work in mental hospitals and with ex-offenders from San Quentin Prison prepared her for working as a writer/director in film and TV. Shayne has created a TV series for Quincy Jones' QDE, written scripts for Imagine, Showtime and Disney and directed films released by Paramount, Warners and on HBO Family. She has directed episodic for Nickelodeon. Shayne wrote and directed an award winning animated short musical film and a suspense thriller. Shayne recently directed and wrote an award winning documentary in Thailand and adapted a WW2 non-fiction book for a Swiss producer
Shayne has written and directed in the US, Canada and Europe. She has filmed for Paramount in Romania, developed a dramatic feature for X-Filme of Germany and another for Muse Entertainment of Montreal. Shayne is currently in post on a teaser she directed for a new rom-com she is developing.
Shayne recently wrote a twisted drama feature screenplay. Shayne is fully vaccinated.