Film/Theater Resume

Samara G. Shaw
(818)-406-0177

Projects In Development:

Documentaries


Co-Producer - Making the Rainbows Bright  

The Return to the Principals of Peace - Natures Laws 
Trailers:      
https://vimeo.com/113548495
https://vimeo.com/111891256
The following project has expanded to include a Council of Elders.  Rainbow Thunder Heart passed away 2 years ago, and we are continuing the work as a group. We are eternally grateful.  

A Council of 12 Indiginous Elders is assembling now as of September of 2019.  We will travel together continuing the work where Rainbow Thunder Heart left off.  
   

The Global Equator Medicine Wheel Peace Project & Documentary 

Documenting the Lifework, Vision and Teachings of Modern Day Earth Healer, Rainbow Thunder Heart.  

Utilizing The Ancient Spiritual Technologies of the Medicine Wheel, Shoshone Earth Wisdom Carrier, Bavado Tatun Corazon (Rainbow Thunder Heart), invites people of all beliefs, faiths, races and religions to help him restore the vibrations of peace, love, balance, and harmony on Earth once again.

Co-producing with Steve Copeland, Producer/Director, Shift of the Ages, Vision of the Ages
https://vimeo.com/visionoftheages

Producer/Director - Sound Healing/Cymatics and Science and Spirit Conferences  Events encouraging cultural creatives to gather, develop and share their visions for a positive future on Earth:   Gatherings, Ceremonies, Conferences and Circles, where Artists, Musicians, Healers, Scientists, and Visionaries share information and learn to utilize the power of visualization, combined with sounds, tones and vibrations, to express and manifest their positive visions for humanity.  
   
Feature Films

Screenplay/Producer- The Shift 
A Transmedia Storytelling Project, Designed to Awaken, Activate, and Empower. 
In Development with Red Giant Media, Los Angeles, CA - In Development  

Screenplay/Producer - Confessions of a Love Addict 
A feature film comedy about abuse, addiction, and the healing process. 

Screenplay/Producer - In God We Trust 
A feature film based on the true story of the Peabody Energy Coal Mining Operations and their devastating effect on the Navaho and Hope Peoples in the Black Messa, AZ Area .  

In God We Trust  is about a Native American lawyer who was adopted into a wealthy family, with ties to the coal industry.  This film seeks to bridge and heal the gaps between White and Native American Cultures.   

Education

1985-1990:  Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont  BA in Education and Dramatic Arts 
Thesis:  Carl Rogers - Self Directed Learning 
Experimental Theater - Improvisational Theater/Dance/Ritual 
Methods/ Techniques: Alexander, Meisner, Stanislavsky, Kristen Linkletter, Viola Spolin   
Technical: Stage Managment, Light Board.   

Sept 2005- Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, CT
Sept 2007 Masters Coursework  - Playwriting and Screenwriting

Sept 2012 Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont and Port Townsend, WA
Masters Coursework - Integrative Arts:  
Experimental Film Project:  The Vision Project - Documenting a Positive Vision of the Future through the work of Artists, Musicians, Healers, Scientists, Visionaries, and Cultural Creatives Express Their Positive Visions for the Future.  

Video/Film/Theater Experience

1984 Emerson College, Boston, MA
Youth Theater Program with Diena Guardella
Co-created and performed in improvisationally written play

1983- 1984 Cablevision, Lexington, MA
Camera, Lighting, Setup, etc. for Local Cable TV Company.  
Camera on Live Events, Talk Shows, etc.  

1987 Video One, Boston MA
All aspects of television/video production, in studio and on location

Summer, Bennington School, Bennington, VT
1988 Taught movement and acting to emotionally disturbed adolescents.

Co-Directed a Musical.

1990-1991 Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, MA
Teacher at after school middle school drama program.

1993 – 2002 Ottawa, ONT,  Gloucester MA
Director of Improvisational Theater Troupe 

1996-2000 North Shore Community College,  Lynn, MA
Writing Professor/Tutor

Summer, Camp Rice Moody, Peobody, MA
  1. Program Specialist: Drama.

Summer, Creative Adventures, Rockport, MA
1999 Founder and Director of Dramatic Arts Program for Children.

2000-2003 First Universalist Society of Salem, Salem, MA

Director of Religious Education:  Co- Wrote, Produced, and Directed Shows.

2003- Salmonberry Preschool, Orcas Island, WA
Present Lead Preschool Teacher/Camp Director - Integrated theater arts, music and movement into curriculum.  Founder and Director of Theater Camp for Children  


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