Philip Shane is a renowned documentary filmmaker with an extensive career spanning over 25 years. His most recent project, Dancing In Jaffa, premiered at the 2013 TriBeCa Film Festival and earned him the Best Editing Award at Israel's prestigious DocAviv Film Festival. As Co-Director and Editor of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, Shane won the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and he also produced and edited Einstein: The Real Story Of The Man Behind The Theory, which aired on the History Channel in 2008.
Prior to his work in documentary filmmaking, Shane spent nearly a decade at ABC News, where he edited numerous distinguished programs, including Ted Kopple's Iraq War Journal, Tip Of The Spear, which won the 2004 DuPont Columbia Award for Broadcast Journalism, and Martin Luther King: Searching For The Promised Land, which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program. Shane also collaborated with Peter Jennings and Senior Producer Richard Gerdau on the short film Witness To History, which preserved Jennings' personal memories of 9/11 and is now part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
Throughout his career, Shane has edited numerous films about performing artists. He worked with Paul McCartney and filmmaker Alistair Donald on Wingspan, a documentary about Paul and Linda McCartney's life after The Beatles, and previously edited The Beatles Revolution, which told the story of the band through the memories of musicians, artists, politicians, writers, and other celebrities.
Shane's other notable projects include Andre's Lives, a PBS documentary from 1998, Concert Of Wills: Making the Getty Center, a PBS documentary from 1997, and Green Chimneys, a documentary that premiered at the Sundance "American Spectrum" and Cinemax in 1996.
