Building bridges based on the belief that film becomes art only when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil & paper. Cine Pobre Film Festival is the 100% self-funded intersection of culture and capabilities.
spent a decade as a photographer in New York and Chicago before deciding to move abroad and concentrate on film. He settled in Bosnia and Herzegovina in search for a story that humanized the people and region, as opposed to perpetuating the stigmatizing stereotypes so prevalent in postwar documentary films. Seven years later, Shawn emerged with Among Wolves. Now back in Chicago, he is currently editing DMT, a lyrical document of dance/movement therapy for survivors of human trafficking in India.