Shawn Schaffer

Movies

Shoplifters of the World
Best Boy Grip
1987. Denver, Co. One crazy night in the life of four friends reeling from the sudden demise of iconic British band The Smiths, while the local airwaves are hijacked at gunpoint by an impassioned Smiths fan.
One Moment
Cinematography
Middle-age siblings struggle to manage their lives while caring for their recently widowed aging father.
Growing Up Fat & Albanian
Director of Photography
Meet Ella, a headstrong young American woman who defies everything-- her traditional Albanian upbringing, her strict family, her nemesis --the formidable Aunt Shirley to risk it all for TRUE LOVE. A love story about growing up FAT & Albanian. Your family or your heart? YOU decide. But choose wisely. And remember -- love, luck, fate, no matter what life throws you.... your family always has your back. If they don't stab you first. A story that's messy, complicated, violent. A movie about FAMILY.
Fighting for Freedom
Director of Photography
Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.
The Vampire Assassin
Driver
After centuries of living the life of a free spirited, spoiled rich vampire, terrorizing the Eastern European countryside, Veronica arrives in the United States for new prey. But when her actions start attracting the attention of humans she is brought before her clan elders and ordered to reign in her "bloodlust" or be ostracized by the rest of the clan, a fate worse than death. In order to get back into the good graces of the elders, Veronica must become an assassin and kill vampires who themselves are attracting the humans' attention.
Bloodlust
The Driver
BLOODLUST opens in a blaze of blinding white light as young Maria Hunter races through her blood-spattered home to her parents room as they are being killed by a vampire. Hunter and her infant brother are adopted by the Church and grow up in a warm and loving environment until one night when the vampire who murdered her parents savagely kills her brother. The enraged Hunter leaves the secure confines of the Church on a crusade for vengeance on the creatures responsible for stealing her family from her.
The Wendigo
Cinematography
An archaeological team from an Ivy League school discover something unexpected in their remote forest excavations of an ancient Native American site.