Biography

Philip Shane is documentary filmmaker with over 25 years of experience, most recently as Editor of Dancing In Jaffa, which had it's World Premiere at the 2013 TriBeCa Film Festival, and for which he won the Best Editing Award at Israel's prestigious DocAviv Film Festival. He was Co-Director & Editor of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival), and Producer & Editor of Einstein: The Real Story Of The Man Behind The Theory (2008, History Channel).

At ABC News for nearly a decade, Shane edited many 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 (1999) which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program. A short film he made with Peter Jennings and Senior Producer Richard Gerdau, Witness To History, preserved Jennings' personal memories of 9/11 and has been placed in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American History.

Shane has edited many films about performing artists. He worked with Paul McCartney and filmmaker Alistair Donald on Wingspan (2001), about Paul & Linda McCartney's life after The Beatles. His previous project, The Beatles Revolution (2000) told the story of the band through the memories of musicians, artists, politicians, writers, and other celebrities.

Other acclaimed documentaries that Shane has edited or co-edited include Andre's Lives (PBS, 1998), Concert Of Wills: Making the Getty Center (PBS, 1997), and Green Chimneys (Sundance "American Spectrum" & Cinemax, 1996).
- IMDb mini biography by: Philip Shane