Lynn Shelton

Lynn Shelton

Born: August 27, 1965
Died: May 15, 2020
in Oberlin, Ohio, USA
Lynn Shelton (August 27, 1965, Oberlin – May 16, 2020, Los Angeles) 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.

Movies for Lynn Shelton...

Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music
Title: Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A music driven tribute to the late indie filmmaker Lynn Shelton.
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Sword of Trust
Title: Sword of Trust
Character: Deirdre
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: Movie
When Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, the only item she's received is an antique sword that he believed to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
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Half the Picture
Title: Half the Picture
Character: Self
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: Movie
At a pivotal moment for gender equality in Hollywood, successful women directors tell the stories of their art, lives and careers. Having endured a long history of systemic discrimination, women filmmakers may be getting the first glimpse of a future that values their voices equally.
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Marc Maron: Too Real
Title: Marc Maron: Too Real
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Battle-scarred stand-up comedian Marc Maron unleashes a storm of ideas about meditation, mortality, documentary films and our weird modern world.
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Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel
Title: Waxie Moon in Fallen Jewel
Character: Mean Tabloid Lady
Released: March 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Is inner beauty more important than shopping? Can homosexuals read? Does prostitution solve everything? And who is she wearing? Discover the answers to these and other existential questions in Fallen Jewel - a new motion picture brought to you by the creators of the acclaimed Capitol Hill series. Featuring sensational original soundtrack, fierce fashion, plenty of man-candy and vibrant performances, it's the queer pop-art fantasia you've been waiting for your whole life. Waxie Moon, a "burlesque performer for a new century" - NPR, searches for a perfect man between exuberant musical numbers and the unspeakable ordeals of motherhood. Addicted to romance and dressed to kill, Waxie is always ready to fall in love. In the wildly shifting world where genders and genres are fluid, Waxie's adventures include a trip to the underworld, a forbidden love affair in the 1950's, and even online dating!
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Lucky Them
Title: Lucky Them
Character: Lisa
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
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Prince Avalanche
Title: Prince Avalanche
Character: Madison (voice)
Released: February 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
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Junk
Title: Junk
Character: Marla
Released: October 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Kaveh and Raul are two b-movie co-writers who have suffered a bitter falling out. Kaveh's lost his girlfriend, and spends his days getting high in his apartment, while Raul is off studying at Columbia University. But when one of their films ("Islama-rama 2") is accepted by a film festival, the two ex-friends are forced to tentatively re-connect in order to pitch their script to the mysterious producer, Yukio Tai (James Hong). Along the way, they will have to brave brutish bodyguards, cutthroat colleagues, inept agents, romantic entanglements, prima donna actors, and the trials of their own bitter friendship.
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Safety Not Guaranteed
Title: Safety Not Guaranteed
Character: Uptight Mom
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
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The Off Hours
Title: The Off Hours
Character: Danielle
Released: January 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A waitress working the night shift at a roadside diner in a small, industrial town becomes intrigued by a charming truck driver, while the diner's owner struggles to keep his dwindling business afloat.
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Your Lucky Day
Title: Your Lucky Day
Released: May 22, 2010
Type: Movie
When an elderly man discovers he's won $156 million in the lottery while shopping at a convenience store, a young man decides to make his own odds. The store manager and a married couple are also mixed up in the game. Who will make it out of the store alive?
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Humpday
Title: Humpday
Character: Monica
Released: January 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Imagine your life is somewhat complete with a house, job, and wife but then your best friend from college comes knocking at your door at 2 AM. During a pot-induced hedonistic party, a plan is hatched between the two friends to create an Art Film of “two really straight men having sex.” If they only knew how much this would affect all of their lives.
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Nights and Weekends
Title: Nights and Weekends
Character: Mattie's Sister
Released: October 10, 2008
Type: Movie
A man and woman must face the tension that builds between them during a long-distance relationship.
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Moving
Title: Moving
Character: Leah
Released: May 26, 2008
Type: Movie
A heretofore aimless artist attempts to instigate a new chapter by uprooting her life from Seattle to New York, carrying her impressionable college-aged nephew in her tumultuous wake.
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Title: Young American Bodies
Character: Sarah
Released: May 2, 2006
Type: TV
Young American Bodies is an American web series, which originally premiered on Nerve.com and currently airs on IFC and at IFC.com in the United States. Each short episode looks into the intersecting love lives of six twenty-somethings in Chicago. The series is produced and directed by Joe Swanberg, the director of Hannah Takes The Stairs and Nights and Weekends.
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We Go Way Back
Title: We Go Way Back
Character: Susan (voice)
Released: January 19, 2006
Type: Movie
A tragic-comic tale with surrealistic tendencies about a lost 23-year-old who is haunted by her disappointed 13-year-old self.
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The Clouds That Touch Us Out of Clear Skies
Title: The Clouds That Touch Us Out of Clear Skies
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
An imagistic and experimental 16mm documentary on miscarriage, as told directly by and for the women who experienced it.