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Shana Marie Gilbert
Colorado & Uganda
Exec Director, Non-Profit
Tags: academy awards  Africa  awards  Center for Social Media  distribution  Docs about Faith and Spirituality  DocuDays  docuweeks  education  political/social issue documentaries  women in documentary  
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Title/Occupation:  Educator  Producer 
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian/White
Citizenship: American
Languages Spoken: English

Biography: 

SHANA ‘Shane’ MARIE GILBERT
Director/Producer
Shane Gilbert is the Founder & Executive Director of ‘Come, Let’s Dance’ (www.comeletsdance.org).

The real truth is: Shane starts things.

All kinds of things: People, businesses, organizations, projects. Anything interesting and fun. And that’s probably what makes her a good film producer. Shane started her film career as a screenwriter, bringing her to LA in 1999 where she started and co-owned a successful LA-based production company, Sodium Entertainment. She has managed well-known Olympic Athletes, producing promo DVDs and materials for their Olympic Games. Shane wrote 6 episodes of the Malaysian import cartoon, Space Tiger, co-wrote a TV pilot, and produced music videos and more. What turned her toward documentary storytelling, however, was her career as grassroots marketing guru for the largest independent rock band in history: Dispatch, where she produced her first Feature Documentary, The Last Dispatch.

Shane has now started 2 non-profit organizations motivating American youth culture to get involved in the restoration process and sustainable community development in Africa. She first traveled to Africa in 2005 as an independent film producer dedicated to using her storytelling abilities to change lives. This latest documentary, ‘Mzungu’, is the initial journey of four average American college kids who set out to ‘save the world’ and rather end up leading their own generation to a new depth of understanding.

Shane is a skilled motivational speaker and educator. She started out as a literature/theatre teacher, winning such awards as Walmart Teacher of the Year. Her favorite education was studying Shakespeare and the classics at both Trinity College, Dublin, and at Oxford University. Currently, she enjoys teaching the summer session every year at the renowned Phillip Exeter Academy where she teaches several Media/Film classes, as well as, Global Justice. Shane has two favorite jobs in life: Being Jesca’s mom! And, speaking all around the world motivating people to think outside themselves to understand a world of issues, and then, radically changing their lives to help.