Shawn Foster
Shawn M. Foster is an American music video, film, and television director.Biography
Career
Shawn Foster is a 2018 Grammy award winner as the Producer of the Lisa Loeb children's video record release of Feel What U Feel.
Early in his career, his short film, White Pony, was a major contribution to the worldwide success of the Deftones record of the same name. Since then, he directed videos and projects for a wide range of artists and genres including the Gram Parsons Tribute Documentary, featuring Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Norah Jones, Keith Richards, John Doe and Dwight Yoakam, among others. Also directing Live at the 40 Watt for the Drive-By Truckers, featuring Jason Isbell.
He has also directed videos for The Warlocks, Gaunt, Drive-By Truckers, Chevelle, Stabbing Westward, Tim Easton, Sugarcult, The Sun, Enemy, Taproot, Johnathan Rice, Caleb Kane He also helmed the directing teams ELEANOR, and CITIZENS OF TOMORROW.
Formerly. one of the founding partners at Boulevard Industries, he moved from Boulevard to direct for television and film, completing the HBO episodic series, Zane's Sex Chronicles. Z.S.C., is written by New York Times best-selling author Zane and produced by Oscar nominee, two-time Emmy winner Suzanne de Passe.
He was a multi-nominated MVPA director at Palomar Pictures and A Few Miles North. Preceding Palomar, he ran Naked, with director, Marc Webb. . He is currently in pre-production for the short film, Nancy Boy'', a script he wrote and adapted from a short story by Adam Rose, with music composed by Troy Van Leeuwen.
Shawn spent much of 2016 working with The Mavericks where he recently directed long-form projects for their East Coast and the Texas tour. The Mavericks, are a multi Billboard charting band, Grammy winners and have recently launched their private label, Mono Mundo/Thirty Tigers.
Shawn ended 2016 by directing and shooting projects for Leanne Womack and Friends and Todd Snider for
Raised in Columbus, Ohio, he is a graduate of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Following graduation, he resided in Los Angeles for sixteen years. Then moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 2012, where he has a daughter and three dogs in a very large yard.
