Sunnyside Films

cinematographer

Shana Hagan has photographed over 30 documentary and narrative films, shot countless hours of documentary and reality-based television programs, and has worked with such distinguished filmmakers as Michael Apted and Jessica Yu.

Shana's work includes Breathing Lessons which won Best Documentary Short at the 1996 Academy Awards, an IDA Award and an Emmy. Shana's recent work includes Shakespeare Behind Bars, a year in the lives of a Shakespeare acting company comprised of inmates at a Kentucky prison. The film premiered at Sundance, won several awards, and enjoyed a successful theatrical release. After Innocence won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2005, was released to theatres, and broadcast on Showtime. Shana also shot the award-winning documentary Homeland, a film about four Lakota families living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Other work includes Close to Home, a look at survivors of child sexual abuse, and Sunset Story, a film about two dynamic senior citizens living in a home for aging activists. Credits also include The Living Museum for HBO, Georgia O’Keeffe for A&E and two National Geographic Specials. Shana also shot the feature film Indemnity and Better Late, a short narrative that played at the Sundance Film Festival. She is currently working with Michael Apted on the project Married in America.