Shawn Efran
American film director
Shawn Efran is an American/Canadian filmmaker, journalist, television producer, and media entrepreneur. His work, including as producer for 60 Minutes on CBS, and as founder and executive producer of Efran Films, has garnered critical acclaim, including seven Emmy awards, a Peabody, a Polk, and four Society of Professional Journalists National Distinguished Public Service Award.
Career
Efran earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Oregon, and went on to work as an Associate Producer for Court TV from 1993–1995.
From 1995 to 2010, Efran worked for CBS News in producing, writing and editing capacities. His work at 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II on CBS includes two Emmy-winning documentaries – an investigation of the genocide in Darfur and a documentary following the Iowa National Guard through a deployment cycle in Iraq – and a Peabody-winning interview with a U.S. Marine accused of mass murder.
In 2010, he founded Efran Films, a multi-media production company, with offices in New York City and Toronto. Efran Films has produced for VICE TV, Paramount+, Investigation Discovery, Oxygen, BRAVO, Food Network, History Channel, ABC, NBC News, the Huffington Post, AOL, Weather.com, HDNet, AxsTV, Plum TV, Current TV, and others. Efran Films creates programming on topics ranging from home design to the revolution in Libya.
Efran and journalist Adam Ciralsky co-directed The Project, a theatrical documentary profiling the Somali pirate-hunting Puntland Maritime Police Force. The film was an official selection of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
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