Shane Carruth

Shane Carruth is an American filmmaker who writes, directs, produces, composes music for, and often acts in his science-fiction features. Born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, he studied mathematics at Stephen F. Austin State University and worked as a flight-simulation software developer before turning to film. His debut feature, Primer (2004), which he wrote, directed, produced, starred in, and scored, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004, along with the Alfred P. Sloan Award. He premiered Upstream Color (2013) at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where he shared a special jury award for sound design with Johnny Marshall and Pete Horner. He also took a role in The Dead Center (2019), a psychological thriller, and consulted on the time-travel sequences in Rian Johnson's Looper.