Directing

Shane Carruth

Born January 1, 1972 · Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA (age 54)

Carruth was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Carruth wrote, directed, produced, and performed one of the two main roles, and composed the music for his independent film Primer, which was honored at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival with the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan Award. As a former software engineer with an undergraduate degree in math, Carruth utilized his technical knowledge…

Known For

Allegiant

Allegiant · 2016

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Moonlight

Moonlight · 2016

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

Looper

MovieActionThriller

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

A Ghost Story

A Ghost Story · 2017

MovieDramaFantasy

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

Primer

MovieScience FictionDrama

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

Upstream Color

Upstream Color · 2013

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Sun Don't Shine

Sun Don't Shine · 2013

Sun Don't Shine

MovieDramaCrime

Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

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Allegiant

Allegiant · 2016

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Other

Moonlight

Moonlight · 2016

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

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Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man · 2016

MovieComedyDrama

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

Coroner

Looper

MovieActionThriller

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Thanks

A Ghost Story

A Ghost Story · 2017

MovieDramaFantasy

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

Additional Editor

Primer

MovieScience FictionDrama

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

Director

Upstream Color

Upstream Color · 2013

MovieDramaScience Fiction

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Writer

Sun Don't Shine

Sun Don't Shine · 2013

Sun Don't Shine

MovieDramaCrime

Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Executive Producer

The Dead Center

The Dead Center · 2019

The Dead Center

MovieThrillerHorror

When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.

Producer

Memory Box

Memory Box · 2016

A young mother works at a memory-recreation facility. When a client pushes her to break the rules, she's forced to decide how far she's willing to go. Dreams and fantasy become entangled with memory as power shifts hands.

The Man

We'll Find Something

We'll Find Something · 2015

We'll Find Something

A couple struggles to choose a restaurant while visiting New York.

Steve

Everything & Everything & Everything

Everything & Everything & Everything · 2014

Everything & Everything & Everything

MovieScience Fiction

The oppressively vapid life of Morgan is forever transformed when a mystical blue pyramid - that inexplicably produces doorknobs - appears in his apartment. What follows is a tale of greed and loss as Morgan builds an impossible, absurd corporate empire of doorknobs.

Morgan

Devils in Disguise

Devils in Disguise · 2014

Devils in Disguise

MovieDramaMystery

Two roommates, Leila & Sandy, team up to kill Leila's sadistic boyfriend.

Thanks

Silhouettes - Paula Machado

Silhouettes - Paula Machado · 2015

Silhouettes - Paula Machado

MovieDocumentary

The way artists see their art, and how that makes them see the world.

Thanks

The Girlfriend Experience

The Girlfriend Experience · 2016

The Girlfriend Experience

Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.

Original Music Composer

Tales from the Loop

Tales from the Loop · 2020

Tales from the Loop

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.

Cole (40's)

Breakthrough

Breakthrough · 2015

SeriesDocumentary

Providing a thought-provoking and imaginative perspective on scientific discovery as it unfolds, each episode follows scientific explorers working on cutting-edge projects with breakthrough potential, revealing the world of tomorrow... today.

Director