York Shackleton
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York Shackleton is an American
filmmaker and former professional snowboarder
. Shackleton is best known for films like "Kush" and the television show MTV'S Undressed.
, the son of Susan (Mason), a school teacher, and Richard Shackleton. He was raised in Palm Springs and attended Palm Springs High School
.
Shackleton was one of the first snowboarders to receive a signature boot with Airwalk
. He competed in the first X-Games held at Snow Summit
where he received silver medals in both slopestyle and big air.
In 1998, York Shackleton's snowboarding was featured in the show "Snow'd In", a show produced by MTV
.
, Taco Bell
, Airwalk
, Right Guard
, Levi’s and many others.
York then turned up alongside Dominique Swain
, Selma Blair
, Summer Phoenix
, Chris Masterson and Sean Patrick Flannery in Jonathan Kahn's "Girl". Shackleton quickly landed a lead role in “I Know What You Did Last Winter" and received high marks from both critics and audiences. After appearing in several Independent films and starring in the MTV series "Undressed", York crossed over into production circles with his motion picture writing and directing debut, “Stealing Roy.” Premiering on the internet web site I-FILM, the picture soon garnered a Pixie Award Nomination for Best Short Screenplay. “Stealing Roy” continues to play on I-Film and has had over 3,000,000 viewers to date.
Shackleton then went on to write produce and direct his first feature length film. "Las Paraditas", a documentary exploring the rampant violence and exposing the corruption that surrounds the prostitutes of Tijuana, Mexico. “Las Paraditas” (2000) screened at the Cannes Film Market. Immediately after York was invited to attended film classes for free at UCLA. Focusing his studies on development, marketing, and distribution, he studied and worked closely with veteran film producer Lenny Shapiro and the pair began to develop films together.
In 2005, York produced the film “Roman”. A companion piece to Lucky McKee’s cult horror classic “May
”. “Roman” starred Kristin Bell and Lucky McKee
and was directed by horror queen Angela Bettis
. The film has played at film festivals around the world including Berlin International Film Festival
and Fangoria
L.A.
Following the release of Roman, Shackleton went on to write, produce and directed the cult film, "Kush" Starring William Atherton
, Mike Erwin
and Lyn Shea. “Kush” takes a real look into the lives of rich white kids from the San Fernando Valley, so bored they become drug dealers and end up losing big.
York Shackleton currently has multiple projects in pre-production and production. These include:
“Street” is written and directed by Shackleton and stars Laura Ramsey, Toby Hemingway
, Vivica A. Fox
and Theresa Russell
and is about a teenage girl who runs away and finds herself living on the streets of Portland and in love with a heroin addict. She ends up pregnant and alone on to try and make it home to the place she left in the first place.
York is scheduled to write and direct a feature film on Jerry Roach’s famous punk rock club from the early eighties, Cuckoo's Nest.
United States
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filmmaker and former professional snowboarder
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
. Shackleton is best known for films like "Kush" and the television show MTV'S Undressed.
Early life
Shackleton was born in Palm Springs, CaliforniaPalm Springs, California
Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, within the Coachella Valley. It is located approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego...
, the son of Susan (Mason), a school teacher, and Richard Shackleton. He was raised in Palm Springs and attended Palm Springs High School
Palm Springs High School
Palm Springs High School is a public high school for grades 9 through 12 located in Palm Springs, California as part of the Palm Springs Unified School District...
.
Snowboarding
York Shackleton was a prominent professional snowboarder in the early to late 1990s. Notable trick performed by Shackleton included: Rodeo flip, or the frontside rodeo.Shackleton was one of the first snowboarders to receive a signature boot with Airwalk
Airwalk
The airwalk is a skateboarding trick invented in 1983 by Tony Hawk, who performed it on ramps and half pipes. In 1986, Rodney Mullen invented the Ollie Airwalk, a flatground version of the Airwalk. The name Ollie Airwalk is often mistaken by the Ollie Airwalk trick in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater...
. He competed in the first X-Games held at Snow Summit
Snow Summit
Snow Summit is a ski resort that was established in 1952 and is in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California. It is located by Big Bear Lake along with its sister resort Bear Mountain; these two resorts which operate under the same management are collectively known as Big Bear Mountain...
where he received silver medals in both slopestyle and big air.
In 1998, York Shackleton's snowboarding was featured in the show "Snow'd In", a show produced by MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
.
Film And Television career
Inspired to tap into the commercial aspect of the sport, York took his tricks in front of the camera, appearing in hundreds of national commercials for products like Mountain DewMountain Dew
Mountain Dew is a citrus-flavored carbonated soft drink brand produced and owned by PepsiCo. The original formula was invented in the 1940s by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman and was first marketed in Marion, VA, Knoxville and Johnson City, Tennessee. A revised formula was...
, Taco Bell
Taco Bell
Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California. A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., which serves American-adapted Mexican food. Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items, and a variety of "Value Menu" items...
, Airwalk
Airwalk
The airwalk is a skateboarding trick invented in 1983 by Tony Hawk, who performed it on ramps and half pipes. In 1986, Rodney Mullen invented the Ollie Airwalk, a flatground version of the Airwalk. The name Ollie Airwalk is often mistaken by the Ollie Airwalk trick in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater...
, Right Guard
Right Guard
Right Guard is a brand of deodorant for men. It is also a brand of shower gel. It is manufactured by the Dial Corporation unit of Henkel of North America, which acquired the brand in 2006 as a condition for Procter & Gamble's Gillette acquisition because P&G has other deodorant brands such as Old...
, Levi’s and many others.
York then turned up alongside Dominique Swain
Dominique Swain
Dominique Ariane Swain is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as the title character in the 1997 film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, and as Jamie Archer in the film Face/Off.- Early life :...
, Selma Blair
Selma Blair
Selma Blair is an American actress who has worked in film, theatre and television. She has performed in feature films including Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde, The Sweetest Thing, Hellboy, The Fog, Purple Violets and Hellboy II: The Golden Army...
, Summer Phoenix
Summer Phoenix
Summer Joy Phoenix is an American actress and model. She is the youngest sibling of the late River Phoenix, Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, and Liberty Phoenix, and is married to actor Casey Affleck.-Early life:...
, Chris Masterson and Sean Patrick Flannery in Jonathan Kahn's "Girl". Shackleton quickly landed a lead role in “I Know What You Did Last Winter" and received high marks from both critics and audiences. After appearing in several Independent films and starring in the MTV series "Undressed", York crossed over into production circles with his motion picture writing and directing debut, “Stealing Roy.” Premiering on the internet web site I-FILM, the picture soon garnered a Pixie Award Nomination for Best Short Screenplay. “Stealing Roy” continues to play on I-Film and has had over 3,000,000 viewers to date.
Shackleton then went on to write produce and direct his first feature length film. "Las Paraditas", a documentary exploring the rampant violence and exposing the corruption that surrounds the prostitutes of Tijuana, Mexico. “Las Paraditas” (2000) screened at the Cannes Film Market. Immediately after York was invited to attended film classes for free at UCLA. Focusing his studies on development, marketing, and distribution, he studied and worked closely with veteran film producer Lenny Shapiro and the pair began to develop films together.
In 2005, York produced the film “Roman”. A companion piece to Lucky McKee’s cult horror classic “May
May (film)
May is a 2002 American horror film. It stars Angela Bettis, Anna Faris, and Jeremy Sisto, and was written and directed by Lucky McKee.-Plot:...
”. “Roman” starred Kristin Bell and Lucky McKee
Lucky McKee
Edward Lucky McKee is an American director, writer, and actor, largely known for the 2002 film May, which has acquired a cult following.-Biography:...
and was directed by horror queen Angela Bettis
Angela Bettis
Angela Marie Bettis is an American actress, film producer and director best known for her lead roles in the 2002 TV remake of the Stephen King film Carrie, the title character in May , and in Girl, Interrupted as the anorexic girl Janet Webber.-Early life:Bettis was born in Austin, Texas to Mary...
. The film has played at film festivals around the world including Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
and Fangoria
Fangoria
Fangoria is an American magazine devoted to horror and exploitation films, which has a number of associated brands:* Fangoria Comics* Fangoria Films* Fangoria RadioFangoria may also refer to:* Fangoria , a Spanish electro pop band...
L.A.
Following the release of Roman, Shackleton went on to write, produce and directed the cult film, "Kush" Starring William Atherton
William Atherton
William Atherton , born William Atherton Knight II, is an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:Atherton was born in Orange, Connecticut, the son of Roby and Robert Atherton Knight...
, Mike Erwin
Mike Erwin
Mike Erwin is an American actor who is best known as Colin Hart in the now cancelled WB television series Everwood. He has been more widely heard as the voice of Jak in the Jak and Daxter series from Jak II onward except in the case of Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier in which he did not reprise...
and Lyn Shea. “Kush” takes a real look into the lives of rich white kids from the San Fernando Valley, so bored they become drug dealers and end up losing big.
York Shackleton currently has multiple projects in pre-production and production. These include:
“Street” is written and directed by Shackleton and stars Laura Ramsey, Toby Hemingway
Toby Hemingway
Toby Michael C. A. Hemingway is a British actor. He is best known for playing Reid Garwin in the 2006 supernatural thriller The Covenant. Hemingway also made appearances in CSI: Miami, Bones and Summerland...
, Vivica A. Fox
Vivica A. Fox
Vivica Anjanetta Fox is an American actress and television producer. She is best known for her roles in the films Independence Day, Set It Off, Soul Food, Why Do Fools Fall In Love,Kill Bill and Juwanna Mann....
and Theresa Russell
Theresa Russell
Theresa Russell is an American actress.-Biography:Russell was born Theresa Paup in San Diego, California, the daughter of Carole Platt and Jerry Russell Paup. She attended Burbank High School, but did not graduate. She married English film director Nicolas Roeg , in 1982...
and is about a teenage girl who runs away and finds herself living on the streets of Portland and in love with a heroin addict. She ends up pregnant and alone on to try and make it home to the place she left in the first place.
York is scheduled to write and direct a feature film on Jerry Roach’s famous punk rock club from the early eighties, Cuckoo's Nest.
Filmography
- Stealing Roy (20002000 in filmThe year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
) - Las Paraditas (20032003 in filmThe year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
) - RomanRoman (film)Roman is a 2006 suspense-horror film starring Lucky McKee and Kristen Bell with Angela Bettis directing. The movie is a spin-off of 2002 cult hit May. In May, Angela Bettis played the title role and Lucky McKee directed, roles which have been switched for Roman...
(20042004 in filmThe year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
) - Kush (20052005 in film- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...
) - StreetStreetA street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...
(20072007 in filmThis is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
)
Upcoming films
- Urban StruggleUrban StruggleUrban Struggle is a rare film made in 1981 that documents the hardcore punk scene at the Cuckoo's Nest nightclub. The black-and-white film features performances by TSOL, Circle Jerks and Black Flag, and shows early slam dancing. It is not available on home video format, but portions of the film...
(20092009 in filmThe year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
) as Writer/Director - Live Stream (20092009 in filmThe year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
) as Writer - Caged In (20092009 in filmThe year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
) as Director