Shane McNeil

Shane McNeil is the MRC’s new Manager of Development and Programs.

Shane lectured in Film and Media Studies at various universities for over ten years, before co-founding the Screen Studies course at Flinders University where he was Head of Production.

Upon leaving academia, Shane was a writer on the children’s TV series Chuck Finn (2000-01) before working with producer Kristian Moliere on a series of award-winning, music videos for The Mark of Cain. This collaboration led to them forming Smoking Gun Productions.

Under that banner, Shane directed the AFC short feature, The 13th House (2003), wrote & produced Kafkamêsto (2004) – an online game for the ABC (inspired by the life and work of Franz Kafka) and wrote, produced & directed two one hour documentary specials – SA PoliceFile (2005) & The Ice Factor (2006) – for Channel 7.

Shane shot & directed an episode of the ‘reality business’ series Risking It All (2007) for SBS and was the series co-producer on mY Generation (2008) – a six part SBS documentary series examining all things ’Gen Y’. Shane was also co-producer on the critically acclaimed, low budget feature film Boxing Day (2007) and associate producer on Lucky Country (2009), both directed by Kriv Stenders.

Most recently, Shane was one of only six writer/directors selected to participate in Screen Australia’s 2009-10 IndiVision Script Lab with his feature thriller, The Last Day. He also wrote & directed the SAFC funded short The Bully (2009), which premiered at the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival and won Best Short Film at the 2009 ATOM Awards.

Shane is currently developing a documentary series with the ABC, is writing/producing a multi-directional, online comic book series and is in post-production on an GG short entitled The Moment – based on a short story by Shaun Micallef – all with investment funding from the SAFC.