Lynn Shelton

Lynn Shelton was an American filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films associated with the mumblecore genre. She was born in Oberlin, Ohio, brought up in Seattle, and first worked as a film editor and created experimental shorts before making her first feature, We Go Way Back, which premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. Her dark comedy My Effortless Brilliance was shown at South by Southwest in 2008, and Humpday debuted at Sundance and later screened at Cannes. Your Sister's Sister, starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Mark Duplass, premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Touchy Feely received a Grand Jury Prize nomination at Sundance, and Laggies was the first film she directed without writing the script. She also directed television episodes including Mad Men, New Girl, and GLOW. Her comedy Sword of Trust (2019) premiered at South by Southwest, and she died in 2020.