Colin Blackshear

Colin Blackshear (born; December 6, 1979) is an American filmmaker and multi-media artist. He is a film producer, director and editor.^[1]^[2]

Early life and career[edit]

Blackshear was born in Berkeley, California in 1979 and currently lives in Northern California.

Blackshear film director and film producer the short film "Second Nature", created for Sector 9 Skateboards. Second Nature has won several awards including "Best Extreme Sports Film" at the Mammoth Film Festival,^[3] "Best Short Film" at the X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival,^[4]"Best Sports Film" at the Sonoma International Film Festival^[5] and Best Adventure Sport film at The 5 Point Film Festival in Carbondale, Colorado.^[6] Working in collaboration with photographer and filmmaker Ari Marcopoulos, he co-created an internet video titled "Claremont" for fashion designer Adam Kimmel,^[7] and was editor on the project, "No Way Back", created for the Yves Saint Laurent.^[8] Blackshear holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco, California in Media Arts. Blackshear has also worked with other filmmakers Caveh Zahedi, Sam Green, Daria Martin,^[9] Aaron Brown,^[10] and Rob Epstein.

^ "Colin Blackshear: Director - Producer - Editor". Archived from the original on July 27, 2012. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
^ Colin Blackshear at the Internet Movie Database.
^ "Mammoth Film Festival". Archived from the original on August 8, 2011. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
^ X-Dance Action Sports Film Festival – "Second Nature".
^ Sonoma Film Festival – "Second Nature"
^ "5 Point Film Festival". Archived from the original on January 21, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2010.
^ Adam Kimmel
^ "- YouTube". YouTube.
^ New Museum Archived June 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine – Daria Martin:Minotaur
^ "Home". focuscreeps.com.

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