Shawn M. Foster is an American

United States

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 music video

Music video director

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, film

Film director

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, and television director

Television director

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Career

His short film, White Pony

White Pony

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, was a major contribution to the worldwide success of the
Deftones

Deftones

Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...

 record of the same name. Quickly after, he directed videos for a wide range of
artists and genres including The Warlocks

The Warlocks

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, Gaunt

Gaunt (band)

Gaunt was a pop punk band formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1991. The original lineup formed from the ashes of the short-lived and punkadelic Black Juju, and consisted of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Jerry Wick, bassist Eric Barth and drummer Jeff Regensburger...

, Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia, though three out of six members are originally from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama, and the band strongly identifies with Alabama. Their music uses three guitars as well as bass, drums, and now...

, Chevelle

Chevelle

Chevelle is an American alternative metal trio that formed in 1995 in Grayslake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The band was originally composed of two brothers and a local friend: Pete Loeffler , Sam Loeffler , and Matt Scott . Matt was later replaced by brother Joe Loeffler...

, Stabbing
Westward, Tim Easton

Tim Easton

Tim Easton is a Joshua Tree, California-based American guitarist and singer-songwriter playing rock and roll music.-Biography:Easton was raised in Akron, Ohio, forming the band Kosher Spears while at college. He travelled abroad for a time, busking in London, Paris, and Dublin, and on his return to...

, Sugarcult

Sugarcult

Sugarcult is an American rock band from Santa Barbara, California formed in 1998. The band currently consists of Tim Pagnotta , Airin Older , Marko DeSantis , and Kenny Livingston .-Formation :Tim Pagnotta met ex-drummer Ben Davis during a cigarette break at school...

, The Sun

The Sun (band)

The Sun is a band with styles described as garage, indie, progressive and psychedelic.-History:The Sun released their first full-length album Blame It on the Youth June 7, 2005 on DVD. Every song has a music video. The disc also has WAV files on it for listening without viewing the videos. While it...

, Enemy

Enemy (band)

Enemy is an American band fronted by guitarist and vocalist Troy Van Leeuwen , with bassist Eddie Nappi and drummer Kelli Scott . Former Quicksand drummer Alan Cage was a founding member before being replaced by Scott...

, Taproot

Taproot (band)

Taproot is a four-piece rock group from Ann Arbor, Michigan. They are most known for their hit single "Poem" , as well as a number of other singles from 2000 to the present.-Pre-formation:...

, Johnathan Rice

Johnathan Rice

Johnathan Rice is a Scottish-American singer-songwriter. His first album, Trouble is Real, was released on Reprise Records on April 26, 2005. His follow up, Further North, was released by Reprise on September 11, 2007...

, Caleb Kane
and the Gram Parsons Tribute Documentary, featuring Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello

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, Steve Earle

Steve Earle

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, Norah Jones

Norah Jones

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, Keith
Richards, and Dwight Yokham, among others.

He also helmed the directing teams ELEANOR, (with Michael Barnett) and CITIZENS OF
TOMORROW (with Craig Bernard).

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

Zane's Sex Chronicles

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in 2009 & 2010. Z.S.C., is written by New York Times
best- selling author Zane

Zane (erotica author)

Zane is an African American author of erotic fiction who has written over two dozen novels. She is best known for her novel Addicted. In 1997, Zane began writing erotic stories to pass the time after her children went to bed. She was living in North Carolina and working as a sales representative....

 and produced by Oscar nominee, two-time Emmy winner
Suzanne de Passe

Suzanne de Passe

Suzanne de Passe is an American television, music and film producer. As well as the Co-Chairman of de Passe Jones Entertainment Group-Career:Suzanne began her career at Motown as Creative Assistant to company founder, Berry Gordy...

. Before Boulevard, he was a multi-nominated MVPA director at
Palomar Pictures and A Few Miles North. Preceding Palomar, he ran Naked, with fellow
director, Marc Webb

Marc Webb

Marc Preston Webb is an American music video, short film and major motion picture director. He directed the 2009 romantic comedy-drama Days of Summer and is currently directing the 2012 Spider-Man reboot The Amazing Spider-Man.-Life and career:Webb was born in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of...

. (500) Days of Summer / The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012 film)

The Amazing Spider-Man is an upcoming American superhero film based on the comic book of the same name that is currently in post-production. It is the fourth Columbia Pictures film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man and the first film in a rebooted Spider-Man film franchise. The film...

). He is currently in pre-production for the short film,Nancy Boy, a script he co-wrote with Adam Rose, with music composed by Troy Van Leeuwen

Troy Van Leeuwen

Troy Dean Van Leeuwen is an American musician and producer. Van Leeuwen began playing music at young age and started playing guitar at age 13. Soon Van Leeuwen was playing in various local bands such as Jester, 60 Cycle and later Failure...

, and shooting early 2012.

Raised in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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, he now lives in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

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External links

• Shawn M. Foster Website
• Zane's Sex Chronicles
  Zane's Sex Chronicles
  Zane's Sex Chronicles was an American television program feature series. Based on the urban erotica novels written by Zane, the series follows the friendships and relationship of five female friends who enjoy the steamy stories of erotic writer Zane...
  
  
• Shawn Foster MVDBASE