Shane Gilbert
- Producer
- Casting Director
- Director
Shana "aka. Shane" Gilbert has a track record of envisioning, launching, and leading youth movements that inspire and impact.
She's led a storied life of using film to point young people toward living life with purpose.
- In 1999, Shane finished her first screenplay and sent it off to a production company, the result was a phone call from someone to help launch Act One: Writing for Hollywood of which she became a member of the first class and founding members.
- In 2000, Shane partnered up with some amazing friends in Burbank, CA to launch Sodium Entertainment, where she remained for the next 5 years producing all kinds of fun projects like Breaking Dawn (2004) with James Haven, Angelina Jolie's brother.
- In 2004, Shane jumped on board with the band Dispatch to produce their feature length documentary and their final show, The Last Dispatch, "the largest independent rock concert in history". Shane not only ran the grassroots campaign with brought over
- In 2005, Shane took off to Africa to find her Sundance-winning story, but God had other plans when she fell in love with a group of street kids who changed her life. She moved in with them for over a decade, launching Come, Let's Dance a nonprofit working with college-age students to effect change in Kampala, Uganda by attacking poverty at the root cause of the orphan cycle and leading thousands of young people to understand not only the failure of foreign aid, but what they can do in their lifetime to make an impact. While building this organization, she simultaneously finished the feature-length documentary Mzungu: White Wanderer along with Billy Zabka (Cobra Kai, Karate Kid) who co-produced and edited the film and Steve Bertrand who wrote the soundtrack which then raised the funds to build a school in Kampala for over 300 former street kids.
- After all those kids grew up, Shane fully understood the core issues of poverty plaguing Africa. She started to rethink missionary work and the need to build economy over charity, to provide jobs over free handouts, and thus, she founded an international company called The Sweetest Bean Vanilla Co where she can not only provide employment in Kampala for those willing to work, but a fair wage for all involved. Her hope is that more and more Christians will see and understand the value of business and building an economy and providing employment for impoverished communities so we can actually begin the change that is sustainable and life-giving.
- Shane is currently working with pro-surfer, Bryan Jennings, on his feature, Kids on the Wall and co-producing with Bob Maddux on his new series, Boy on the Beach.