Lynn Shelton trivia | 42 facts about the American filmmaker

Lynn Shelton was an American filmmaker. She died on May 15th, 2020. She was best known for the film “Your Sister’s Sister”.

Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her life and career.

1. Lynn Shelton was born on August 27, 1965
2. She died on May 15, 2020
3. She was an American filmmaker
4. She was best known for writing, directing, and producing such films as Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister
5. Shelton was born in Ohio
6. She grew up in Seattle
7. She described herself as having been audacious as a young girl, but having lost confidence in her creativity in adolescence
8. his experience contributed to a theme she explored in her 2005 film “We Go Way Back”
9. After high school, Shelton attended Oberlin College in Ohio and then the University of Washington School of Drama
10. 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
11. Her thesis advisor was Peggy Ahwesh
12. She started working in the film industry as a film editor and made a series of experimental short films
13. Among the jobs she held to support her film career, one of them was working aboard a fishing trawler in the Bering Sea
14. Shelton had wanted to be a director, but was worried that being in her mid-30s, it was too late to begin
15. In 2004, Shelton began writing and directing her first feature film, We Go Way Back
16. We Go Way Back premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006
17. In 2008, Shelton’s dark comedy My Effortless Brilliance played at South by Southwest and Maryland Film Festival
18. Shelton’s film Humpday premiered at Sundance
19. The film was acquired by Magnolia Pictures
20. It has been shown at Cannes, SIFF, South by Southwest and other film festivals
21. It opened in theaters in New York and Seattle on July 10, 2009
22. Shelton’s film Your Sister’s Sister premiered in 2011 at the Toronto International Film Festival
23. The film starred Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Duplass
24. Touchy Feely premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013
25. There it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize
26. It starred Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, and Ellen Page
27. Laggies was the first film Shelton directed that had not been written by her as well
28. The film starred Keira Knightley and Chloë Grace Moretz, and premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
29. There it was acquired by A24 Films
30. In 2015, Shelton was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Director’s Branch
31. In 2017, Shelton’s film Outside In premiered at Toronto International Film Festival
32. It starred Jay Duplass, Edie Falco, Kaitlyn Dever, and Ben Schwartz
33. Shelton’s 2019 comedy Sword of Trust had its world premiere at South by Southwest
34. In it, Cynthia (Jillian Bell) inherits a sword from her deceased grandfather, which he believed proves the South won the Civil War
35. Shelton has directed episodes for TV shows since 2009 including The Good Place, GLOW, New Girl, Mad Men and the Hulu miniseries Little Fires Everywhere
36. A week prior to her death, Shelton revealed she was in the process of co-writing a drama film with Marc Maron
37. Shelton came out as bisexual in 2012
38. She was married to actor Kevin Seal
39. She had a son, Milo Seal
40. Shelton was in a relationship with Marc Maron prior to her death
41. Shelton died of a previously unidentified blood disorder in Los Angeles on May 15, 2020, at age 54, after several days of ill health
42. Shelton has cited directors Claire Denis, Woody Allen, and Ingmar Bergman as influences