User:Iseemovies/Shayne Metcalfe

Shayne Metcalfe is a filmmaker based in Saskatoon, SK.

He is well known in the film community for his "just do it" guerrilla style approach to filmmaking.

While still in school Shayne Metcalfe began writing and later produced and directed “Alien Taxidermy” a feature length film with pocket money, a FAP National Film Board of Canada grant, a few buttons and some smiles.

The film had only one screenin. This was at Video Verite for and audience of 100 people who apparantly "laughed and cried in all the right places."

With the local success of the film Shayne had become known well enough that he was hired on a movie. The movie was Ray Ramaya's “Ryan’s Babe”. Shayne ended up 11 credits on the movie and traveling through the United States with the splinter unit to complete the picture.

After “Ryan’s Babe” he worked on several movies and tv series produced in Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan. This was all union work "service deals". It was a requirement that all crew be unionized in order to work on the service picturs and Shayne joined the Directors Guild of Canada as an Associate Director member.

Around this time Shayne met artist Monique Blom whom he Married in 2005.

In 2001 Shayne started ISEE Motion Picture Company Inc.

Shayne taught film and video courses at Heinze Institute, New Media Campus, SIAST and the Department of National Defense “Advanced Video Production”.

ISEE Motion Picture Company Film Work - Shayne Metcalfe Alien Taxidermy Shayne Metcalfe on IMDB ((Internet Movie Database)