BIOGRAPHY
After a dozen years spent acting for the stage, and a decade more learning the ins and outs of cinema as an experimental and documentary filmmaker (The Clouds That Touch Us Out of Clear Skies, The Fruits of Our Labors) and as an editor (Outpatient, Hedda Gabler, Measure), Shelton wrote and directed her first feature-length film upon invitation from The Film Company, a nonprofit film studio. The result, We Go Way Back, premiered at the SLAMDANCE Film Festival in 2006 where it picked up the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography. It won awards in those same categories at the Polish Torun Film Festival TOFFI, where it was also granted the Award for Best Director. Her sophomore feature, My Effortless Brilliance, premiered in the SXSW Narrative Feature competition in 2008 and won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Direction at the Atlanta Film Festival. Shelton has directed four music videos to date, for Laura Veirs, The Lonely H, The Lights and Harvey Danger.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE, 2008, narrative feature
SETTING SUN, 2007, music video for The Lights
WE GO WAY BACK, 2006, narrative feature (produced by the film company)
MORAL CENTRALIA, 2006, music video for Harvey Danger
MAGNETIZED, 2006, music video for Laura Veirs
THE FRUITS OF OUR LABORS, 2005, experimental documentary (click here to read an article about it)
SUMMER, 2004, experimental
OUR ROUND EARTH w/ lori goldston, 2001, experimental
THE CLOUDS THAT TOUCH US OUT OF CLEAR SKIES, 2000, experimental documentary (dedicated website)
BEAUTIFUL OHIO, 2000, experimental
PSYCHEDELIC NURSING MAMA, 1999, experimental
SECRETS OF THE FLESH, 1996, experimental
IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER, 1996, experimental
FORGETTING THAT WE ARE WATER, 1995, experimental
THE DOWN OF HER, 1995, documentary
WHITE, 1994, experimental