- Nickname
- The Mighty Shannman
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Shannon Browning's father destroyed his son's chances of becoming a vet by taking him to see Star Wars when he was five. A natural born storyteller, he wrote his first feature-length screenplay at age 17. With a diploma in graphic design and fine arts, he developed his storytelling ability by creating a series of award-nominated graphic novels, while continuing to write scripts for short films. This lead to his first piece of professional recognition after winning the John Jameson screenwriting competition with his script 'Customer Service', which was produced as the short film 'Everything is Super', starring Gyton Grantley & Camille Keenan from Underbelly & House Husbands.
Purchasing a video camera in his 20's, Shannon taught himself the dynamics of filmmaking through trial and error. After years honing his skills and volunteering on film sets and production houses, he took the plunge with his first professional production, a thriller short called 'Unhinged' made with the assistance of a Screen NSW funding grant. An invaluable learning experience, the production became a hands-on film school. Determined to improve his skills, Shannon spent the next three years working as a video producer while completing a course in video & film production. With these newfound skills, he delved into writing and directing the successful science fiction comedy short 'Grandfather Paradox', which won the best comedy award at the Toronto film festival. He followed this up the next year with a change of pace, writing and directing the emotional drama '3 Minutes', for which actress Lauren Hamilton Neill was nominated for a best actress award.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Shannon Browning
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Winner of the 2011 John Jameson Screenwriter Award for his short script 'Customer Service', which was filmed as the short 'Everything is Super'.
- Is an accomplished graphic novelist. Shannon was the writer and artist of several self-published titles, including 'Welcome to Woodville', a parody of 19050's science fiction movies, 'Mythicman vs the Aussie Battler', a commentary on the Australian persona mentality, and 'RoboToon', an action adventure book about a 6-foot, talking, robotic rabbit superhero.
- All his films contain the 'Evil Shempettes' credit, which lists the people that were instrumental to the making of the film, but didn't have a nameable credit. The phrase came from his early film-making days and is a play on the term 'Fake Shemp' coined by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell in the first Evil Dead film.
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