Shane Carruth
☼ Born on (day unknown) (month unknown) 1972, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
BiographyWriter-director Shane Carruth, a former software engineer, burst onto the independent movie scene with his extremely low-budget science-fiction film Primer (2004) in 2004. Carruth also played one of the two leads in the film and composed its music. "Primer" won the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
Born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 1972, Carruth studied mathematics in college and became a flight simulation software developer before making his first movie. Carruth then spent the next eight years developing "A Topiary", another science-fiction film. The movie was never made and Carruth said that "I basically wasted my whole life on" the project.
Carruth finally made a second film, Upstream Color (2013), which was released in 2013 after debuting at the Sundance Film Festival. He is working on his third film, "The Modern Ocean".
In the role of actor
Swiss Army Man (07/07/2016)
A stranded man receives assistance from a very skillful corpse in Swiss Army Man. Hank (Paul Dano) is a man marooned on an island, who has just about lost hope. Just as he is about to hang himself, Hank notices a corpse of man named Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) lying on the beach. Hank soon comes […]
Upstream Color (14/04/2013)
I should probably preface by saying that Upstream Color is quite a difficult film to fully understand on a single viewing. I’ve tried my best to process the film and I have a rough idea what it is about. However, this is really a film that you need to see multiple times to fully get. […]
In the role of director
Upstream Color (14/04/2013)
I should probably preface by saying that Upstream Color is quite a difficult film to fully understand on a single viewing. I’ve tried my best to process the film and I have a rough idea what it is about. However, this is really a film that you need to see multiple times to fully get. […]